Eros the Limb-Shatterer

Eros the Limb-Shatterer

A Poem by Michael R. Burch

Sappho fragment 130
loose translation by Michael R. Burch

 
Eros, the limb-shatterer,
rattles me,
an irresistible
constrictor.

NOTE: For Sappho of Lesbos, Eros would be the god of lust, desire, sexual passion. 

© 2019 Michael R. Burch


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Added on December 31, 2019
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Tags: Sappho, Fragment, Epigram, Greek, Translation, Eros, Lust, Desire, Passion, Sexual Desire

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