The sweetness Of homecoming

From Carmina Archilochi: The Fragments of Archilochos translated by Guy Davenport.

How Many Times

by Archilochos

How many times,

How many times,

On the grey sea,

The sea combed

By the wind

Like a wilderness

Of woman’s hair,

Have we longed,

Lost in nostalgia,

For the sweetness

Of homecoming.