Love, like a mountain-wind upon an oak, falling upon me, shakes me leaf and bough.
SAPPHOBeauty endures only for as long as it can be seen; goodness, beautiful today, will remain so tomorrow.
More Sappho Quotes
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Eros seizes and shakes my very soul like the wind on the mountain shaking ancient oaks.
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Although only breath, words which I command are immortal.
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Builders, raise the ceiling high, Raise the dome into the sky, Hear the wedding song! For the happy groom is near, Tall as Mars, and statelier, Hear the wedding song!
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The moon is setand the Pleiades; Middle ofthe night, time passes by,I lie alone.
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I would not think to touch the sky with two arms
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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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Death must be an evil and the gods agree; for why else would they live for ever?
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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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I know not what to do, my mind is divided.
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Love shook my heart/ Like the wind on the mountain/ Troubling the oak-trees.
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Death is an ill; ’tis thus the Gods decide: / For had death been a boon, the Gods had died.
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Whatever one loves most is beautiful.
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Death is an evil; the gods have so judged; had it been good, they would die.
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Beauty endures only for as long as it can be seen; goodness, beautiful today, will remain so tomorrow.
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Stand and face me, my love,and scatter the grace in your eyes.
SAPPHO