 The Tithonus poem , also known as the old age poem or ( with fragments of another poem by Sappho discovered at the same time ) the New Sappho , is a poem by the archaic Greek poet Sappho . It is part of fragment 58 in Eva @-@ Maria Voigt 's edition of Sappho . The poem is from Book IV of the Alexandrian edition of Sappho 's poetry . It has been partially known since 1922 , but in 2004 more papyrus fragments were published , drawing international media attention , which almost completed the poem . The poem is one of very few substantially complete poems by Sappho , and deals with the effects of ageing . There is scholarly debate about where the poem ends , as four lines previously thought to have been part of the poem are not found on the 2004 papyrus . 
