
The Poems of Sappho, by John Myers O'Hara, [1910], at sacred-texts.com
It was when the sunset
 Burned with saffron fire,
 And Apollo's coursers
 Turned below the hills,
That on Mitylene's
 Marble bridge we met,
 Gongyla, thou golden
 Maid of Colophon.
Like the breath of morning
 Or a breeze from sea,
 Fresh thy beauty smote me,
 Virile of the north.
Startled by thy vision,
 Transports half divine
 Flooded veins and bosom,
 Shook me with desire.
Soon the kinder sunglow
 Of Æolic lands
 Melted all the futile
 Snows about thy heart.