No honey for me, if it comes with a bee.
SAPPHOLove shook my heart/ Like the wind on the mountain/ Troubling the oak-trees.
More Sappho Quotes
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How love the limb-loosener sweeps me away.
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Without warning as a whirlwind swoops on an oak Love shakes my heart.
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Stand and face me, my love,and scatter the grace in your eyes.
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If you are squeamish Don’t prod the beach rubble.
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He who is fair to look upon is good, and he who is good will soon be fair also.
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Love shook my heart/ Like the wind on the mountain/ Troubling the oak-trees.
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In gold sandals / dawn like a thief / fell upon me.
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Whatever one loves most is beautiful.
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Some 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.
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You may forget but let me tell you this: someone in some future time will think of us.
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The evening star Is the most beautiful of all stars.
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Someone, I tell you, in another time will remember us.
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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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The moon has set In a bank of jet That fringes the Western sky, The pleiads seven Have sunk from heaven And the midnight hurries by; My hopes are flown And, alas! alone On my weary couch I lie.
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Love, like a mountain-wind upon an oak, falling upon me, shakes me leaf and bough.
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