The moon is setand the Pleiades; Middle ofthe night, time passes by,I lie alone.
SAPPHOMay I write words more naked than flesh, stronger than bone, more resilient than sinew, sensitive than nerve.
More Sappho Quotes
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The moon has set, and the Pleiades; it is midnight, and time passes, and I sleep alone.
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Hesperus bringing together All that the morning star scattered.
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Death is an evil; the gods have so judged; had it been good, they would die.
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Love – bittersweet, irrepressible – loosens my limbs and I tremble.
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The Moon and Pleiades have set, Midnight is nigh, The time is passing, passing, yet Alone I lie.
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With his venom irresistible and bittersweet that loosener of limbs, Love reptile-like strikes me down
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Love shook my heart/ Like the wind on the mountain/ Troubling the oak-trees.
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For some the fairest thing on the dark earth is Thermopylae, And the Spartan phalanx lowering lances to die.
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No honey for me, if it comes with a bee.
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Eros seizes and shakes my very soul like the wind on the mountain shaking ancient oaks.
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Raise high the roof-beam, carpenters. Like Ares comes the bridegroom, taller far than a tall man.
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When anger spreads through the breath, guard thy tongue from barking idly.
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Death must be an evil and the gods agree; for why else would they live for ever?
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Eros harrows my heart: wild gales sweeping desolate mountains, uprooting oaks.
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May I write words more naked than flesh, stronger than bone, more resilient than sinew, sensitive than nerve.
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