Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, ed. Poems of Places: An Anthology in 31 Volumes.
Greece and Turkey in Europe: Vol. XIX. 1876–79. | | | | Greece: Leucadia (Santa Maura) | | To the Beloved | | Ovid (43 B.C.–18 A.D.) |
| | (From Sappho to Phaon)
Translated by A. Pope
SHE stood and cried, “O you that love in vain, | |
| Fly hence, and seek the fair Leucadian main: | |
| There stands a rock, from whose impending steep | |
| Apollo’s fane surveys the rolling deep; | |
| There injured lovers, leaping from above, | 5 |
| Their flames extinguish, and forget to love. | |
| Deucalion once with hopeless fury burned, | |
| In vain he loved: relentless Pyrrha scorned: | |
| But when from hence he plunged into the main, | |
| Deucalion scorned, and Pyrrha loved in vain. | 10 |
| Haste, Sappho, haste, from high Leucadia throw | |
| Thy wretched weight, nor dread the deeps below! | | | | |
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