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The moon has set, and the Pleiades; it is midnight, and time passes, and I sleep alone.

Sappho

In gold sandals / dawn like a thief / fell upon me.
SAPPHO

Anand Thakur
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.
SAPPHO

Black Earth Face Infant Love Oneself
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.
SAPPHO

Alone Bank Heaven Hope Lying Moon Myself
Without warning as a whirlwind swoops on an oak Love shakes my heart.
SAPPHO

Heart Love Shake Warning
Eros seizes and shakes my very soul like the wind on the mountain shaking ancient oaks.
SAPPHO

Ancient Mountain Shake Soul
He who is fair to look upon is good, and he who is good will soon be fair also.
SAPPHO

Fair Goodness Himself
I took my lyre and said: come now, my heavenly tortoise shell: become a speaking instrument.
SAPPHO

Heaven Instrument Myself Talk
I would not think to touch the sky with two arms
SAPPHO

Anand Thakur
Mere air, these words, but delicious to hear.
SAPPHO

Delicious Hear Word
Hesperus bringing together All that the morning star scattered.
SAPPHO

Bring Morning Togetherness
I do not know what to do, my mind’s in two.
SAPPHO

Mindset Myself
The evening star Is the most beautiful of all stars.
SAPPHO

Beautiful Evening Stars
What cannot be said will be wept.
SAPPHO

Anand Thakur
Love – bittersweet, irrepressible – loosens my limbs and I tremble.
SAPPHO

Love Myself Tremble
Someone, I tell you, in another time will remember us.
SAPPHO

Anand Thakur
With his venom irresistible and bittersweet that loosener of limbs, Love reptile-like strikes me down
SAPPHO

Myself Strike Venom

The moon has set, and the Pleiades; it is midnight, and time passes, and I sleep alone.

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