Your lips were made to mock

Your lips were made to mock

A Poem by Michael R. Burch

Sappho fragment 155
loose translation by Michael R. Burch

 
A short transparent frock?
It's just my luck
your lips were made to mock!
 

NOTE: This is a translation of an epigram written by the legendary Sappho of Lesbos. Pollux wrote: "Sappho used the word beudos ['εῦδοσ] for a woman's dress, a kimbericon, a kind of short transparent frock."

© 2019 Michael R. Burch


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Added on December 31, 2019
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Tags: Sappho, Fragment, Epigram, Greek, Translation, Lips, Mock, Frock, Lingerie, Slip, Chemise