Note 21 — SAPPHO TO PHAON.[1]
Reading edition
In the first edition,
No gift on thee thy Sappho could confer.
The original couplet in the MS. was
No pledge you left me, faithless and unkind! Nothing with me but wrongs was left behind.
"Jejune, flat, and ill expressed," is written against the last line in the manuscript, and Pope profited by the criticism.