John Banister Tabb

1845-1909

 

Keats - Sappho

by John Banister Tabb

Methinks, when first the nightingale
Was mated to thy deathless song,
That Sappho with emotion pale,
Amid the Olympian throng,
Again, as in the Lesbian grove,
Stood listening with lips apart,
To hear in thy melodious love
The pantings of her heart.

Source:

Poems
Copyright 1894
John Lane, LondonCopeland and Day, Boston