Happy Valentines Day

Here is a poem inspired by Sappho, the lyric poet from Ancient Greece. Very little of her work survives. The piece below was constructed by a Canadian poet, Bliss Carman, who took verses from extant fragments and created what he imagined Sappho might write today.

This verse is best served spoken, to your lover, today.

I seek and desire, 
Even as the wind 
That travels the plain 
And stirs in the bloom 
Of the apple-tree. 

I wander through life, 
With the searching mind 
That is never at rest, 
Till I reach the shade 
Of my lover’s door.