
The Poems of Sappho, by John Myers O'Hara, [1910], at sacred-texts.com
Upon a cushion soft
   My limbs I place,
 My every garment doffed
   For deeper grace;
 From burning doves embalmed
   In baccharis,
 The scented fumes have calmed
   Me like a kiss.
Beyond the phallic shrine
   That tripods light,
 I pledge with holy wine
   An image white;
 Anadyomene,
   Than foam more fair,
 When from the ravished sea
   She rose to air.
Daughter of God, accept
   These gifts of mine!
 Last night my body slept
   In arms divine.
 These sated lips and eyes
   That erstwhile sued,
 Accord this sacrifice
   In gratitude.