Lord Byron Quote

Dark Sappho! could not verse immortal save
That breast imbued with such immortal fire?
Could she not live who life eternal gave?


Childe Harold's Pilgrimage (1812–18) canto 2, st. 39


Dark Sappho! could not verse immortal save That breast imbued with such immortal fire? Could she not live who life eternal gave?

Dark Sappho! could not verse immortal save That breast imbued with such immortal fire? Could she not live who life eternal gave?

Dark Sappho! could not verse immortal save That breast imbued with such immortal fire? Could she not live who life eternal gave?

Dark Sappho! could not verse immortal save That breast imbued with such immortal fire? Could she not live who life eternal gave?