Sappho
Sappho
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Let a foreigner study to render this SAPPHO 77 "Had we never loved sae kindly, Had we never loved sae blindly. Never met, or never parted, We had ne'er been broken-hearted. " Or this "Take, O take those lips away, That so sweetly were forsworn, And those eyes, the break of day, Lights that do mislead the morn ! But my kisses bring again. Seals of love, but sealed in vain. " Is it to be imagined that he could create precisely the effect of either of these stanzas in French or Itahan ? Is not muc...h of that effect inseparable from the words ?
78 SAPPHO Take a perfectly simple stanza of Heine ''Du bist wie eine Blume So hold und schon und rein : Ich schau' dich an, und Wehmuth Schleicht mir ins Herz hinein/' Near as English is to German, incom- parably more easy as it is to render German into English than Greek into English, it may be declared that no English rendering of this verse conveys, or ever will convey, exactly the impres- sion of the German original.
In respect of mere musical sound, what other words could run precisely like those of Coleridge at the opening SAPPHO 79 of Kuhla Khan, or like Shelley's '' I arise from dreams of thee '* ?
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
Let a foreigner study to render this SAPPHO 77 "Had we never loved sae kindly, Had we never loved sae blindly. Never met, or never parted, We had ne'er been broken-hearted. " Or this "Take, O take those lips away, That so sweetly were forsworn, And those eyes, the break of day, Lights that do mislead the morn ! But my kisses bring again. Seals of love, but sealed in vain. " Is it to be imagined that he could create precisely the effect of either of these stanzas in French or Itahan ? Is not muc...h of that effect inseparable from the words ?
78 SAPPHO Take a perfectly simple stanza of Heine ''Du bist wie eine Blume So hold und schon und rein : Ich schau' dich an, und Wehmuth Schleicht mir ins Herz hinein/' Near as English is to German, incom- parably more easy as it is to render German into English than Greek into English, it may be declared that no English rendering of this verse conveys, or ever will convey, exactly the impres- sion of the German original.
In respect of mere musical sound, what other words could run precisely like those of Coleridge at the opening SAPPHO 79 of Kuhla Khan, or like Shelley's '' I arise from dreams of thee '* ?
What to read after Sappho?
You can find similar books in the "Read Also" column, or choose other free books by Tucker Thomas George to read onlineMoreLess
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