niobe - Popular Poems and stories from category

Before they were
Leto and Niobehad been the mostdevoted of friendstranslated by:
Barnard

How like the sky she bends above her child, One with the great horizon of her pain
No sob from our low seas where woe runs wild, No weeping cloud, no momentary rain,
Can mar the heaven-high visage of her grief, That frozen anguish, proud...