
The Poems of Sappho, by John Myers O'Hara, [1910], at sacred-texts.com
Dark-eyed Sleep, child of Night,
   Come in thy shadow garment to my couch,
 And with thy soothing touch,
 Cool as the vesper breeze,
   Grant that I may forget;
Bestow condign release,
   A taste of rest that comes with endless sleep;
 Lure off the haunting dreams,
 The dire Eumenides
   That torture my repose.
For I would live a space
   Though Phaon has forsaken me, nor yet
 Be found on shadow fields
 Among the lilies tall
   Of pale Persephone.