
The Poems of Sappho, by John Myers O'Hara, [1910], at sacred-texts.com
I taught Hero, of Gyara, the swift runner;
   Swifter far was she than Atalanta,
 When through clinging fleece of her wind-rippled
   Garments blushed the glimmer of her limbs.
I taught Hero, of Gyara, the swift runner;
   Lovelier was she than Atalanta,
 When the straining vision of the suitor
   Saw her beauty mock impending death.
I taught Hero, of Gyara, the swift runner,
   All the singing numbers of Terpander,
 Metres of Archilochus and Alcman,
   And my melic verse that glows supreme.
I taught Hero, of Gyara, the swift runner,
   Sapphics with their triple surge of music
 Melting in the final verse Adonic,
   Like the foam fall of a spended wave.