Eros seizes and shakes my very soul like the wind on the mountain shaking ancient oaks.
SAPPHOEros seizes and shakes my very soul like the wind on the mountain shaking ancient oaks.
SAPPHOEros harrows my heart: wild gales sweeping desolate mountains, uprooting oaks.
SAPPHOHow love the limb-loosener sweeps me away.
SAPPHODancing up the full moon Round some fair new altar Trample the soft blossoms of fine grass.
SAPPHONo honey for me, if it comes with a bee.
SAPPHOHe who is fair to look upon is good, and he who is good will soon be fair also.
SAPPHOLove – bittersweet, irrepressible – loosens my limbs and I tremble.
SAPPHOSomeone, I tell you, in another time will remember us.
SAPPHOMay I write words more naked than flesh, stronger than bone, more resilient than sinew, sensitive than nerve.
SAPPHOStand and face me, my love,and scatter the grace in your eyes.
SAPPHOExperience shows us Wealth unchaperoned by Virtue is never an innocuous neighbor.
SAPPHODeath is an evil; the gods have so judged; had it been good, they would die.
SAPPHOBeauty endures only for as long as it can be seen; goodness, beautiful today, will remain so tomorrow.
SAPPHOWithout warning as a whirlwind swoops on an oak Love shakes my heart.
SAPPHOSome say an army of horsemen, or infantry, A fleet of ships is the fairest thing On the face of the black earth, but I say It’s what one loves.
SAPPHOI know not what to do, my mind is divided.
SAPPHO