The Swallow
Sappho & John Myers O’Hara * Track #66 On The Poems of Sappho
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Album The Poems of Sappho
- #1The Muses
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- #2Musagetes
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- #3Love’s Banquet
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- #4Moon and Stars
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- #5Ode To Anactoria
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- #6
Ode To AphroditeSappho & John Myers O’Hara
- #7Summer
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- #8The Garden Of The Nymphs
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- #9Aphrodite’s Doves
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- #10Anacreon’s Song
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- #11The Daughter Of Cyprus
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- #12The Distaff
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- #13The Sleep Wind
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- #14The Reproach
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- #15Long Ago
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- #16Hymenaios
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- #17Bridal Song
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- #18Epithalamium
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- #19Pieria’s Rose
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- #20Lament For Adonis
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- #21The Stricken Flower
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- #22Death
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- #23Persephone
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- #24Maidenhood
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- #25Ever Maiden
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- #26Clëis
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- #27Aspiration
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- #28Hero, Of Gyara
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- #29Courage
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- #30The Boast Of Ares
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- #31Gold
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- #32Gnomics
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- #33Pride
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- #34Leto and Niobe
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- #35The Dye
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- #36Hymn To Paphia
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- #37Eros
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- #38Passion
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- #39Aphrodite’s Praise
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- #40The First Kiss
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- #41Ode To Atthis
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- #42Comparison
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- #43The Sacrifice
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- #44Leda
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- #45Amœbeum: Alcæus and Sappho
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- #46The Love Of Selene
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- #47The Cretan Dance
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- #48To Alcæus
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- #49Hyporcheme
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- #50Larichus
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- #51Spring
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- #52Prelude
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- #53Andromeda
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- #54Euneica
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- #55Gorgo
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- #56Mnasidica
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- #57Telesippa
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- #58Gyrinno
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- #59Megara
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- #60Erinna
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- #61Gongyla
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- #62Damophyla
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- #63Anagora
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- #64Philomel
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- #65Golden Pulse
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- #66The Swallow
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- #67Tidings
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- #68Hesperus
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- #69Dawn
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- #70The Farewell
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- #71Dark-Eyed Sleep
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- #72The Cliff Of Leucas
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- #73The Dust Of Timas
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- #74The Priestess Of Artemis
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- #75Pelagon
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The Swallow by Sappho (Ft. John Myers O'Hara)
Performed by
SapphoJohn Myers O’HaraThe Swallow Annotated
Daughter of Pandion, lovely
Swallow that veers at my window,
Swift on the flood of the sunshine
Darting thy shadow;
What is thy innocent purpose,
Why dost thou hover and haunt me?
Is it a kinship of sorrow
Brings thee anear me?
Must thou forever be tongueless,
Flying in fear of Tereus?
Must he for Itys pursue thee,
Changed to a lapwing?
Tireless of pinion and never
Resting on bush or the branches,
Close to the earth, up the azure,
Over the treetops;
After thy wing in its madness
Follows my glance, as a flitting
Child on the track of its mother
Hastens in silence.
Daughter of Pandion, lovely
Swallow that veers at my window,
Hast thou a message from Cyprus
Telling of Phaon?