Lyric Poem · Love
The Moon Has Left the Sky (the Midnight Poem)
by Sappho · translated by John Addington Symonds
The moon has left the sky;
Lost is the Pleiads' light;
It is midnight
And time slips by;
But on my couch alone I lie.
This poem is in the public domain. First published in 1883; reprinted in H. T. Wharton's Sappho, 1885.
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