Saturday, January 21, 2012

New drawing of Sappho and Gongyla

Insula Lesbos Sappho si Gongyla desen in pix
This is my newest pen drawing of the poet Sappho and Gongyla, one of her girlfriends.
This is the poem Sappho wrote for Gongyla, the poem that inspired me.

Please

Come back to me, Gongyla, here tonight,
You, my rose, with your Lydian lyre.
There hovers forever around you delight:
A beauty desired.
Even your garment plunders my eyes.
I am enchanted: I who once
Complained to the Cyprus-born goddess,
Whom I now beseech
Never to let this lose me grace
But rather bring you back to me:
Amongst all mortal women the one
I most wish to see.

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