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Beauty endures only for as long as it can be seen; goodness, beautiful today, will remain so tomorrow.

Sappho

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

Ancient Mountain Shake Soul
What cannot be said will be wept.
SAPPHO

Anand Thakur
Someone, I tell you, in another time will remember us.
SAPPHO

Anand Thakur
I would not think to touch the sky with two arms
SAPPHO

Anand Thakur
Experience shows us Wealth unchaperoned by Virtue is never an innocuous neighbor.
SAPPHO

Experience Neighbor Virtue
Would Jove appoint some flower to reign, in matchless beauty on the plain, the Rose (mankind will all agree). The Rose the queen of flowers should be.
SAPPHO

Anand Thakur
I know not what to do, my mind is divided.
SAPPHO

Division Known Mindset Myself
I took my lyre and said: come now, my heavenly tortoise shell: become a speaking instrument.
SAPPHO

Heaven Instrument Myself Talk
No honey for me, if it comes with a bee.
SAPPHO

Anand Thakur
Whatever one loves most is beautiful.
SAPPHO

Anand Thakur
Raise high the roof-beam, carpenters. Like Ares comes the bridegroom, taller far than a tall man.
SAPPHO

High Man Marriage Tall
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
Dancing up the full moon Round some fair new altar Trample the soft blossoms of fine grass.
SAPPHO

Anand Thakur
Now the Earth with many flowers puts on her spring embroidery.
SAPPHO

Earth Embroidery Flower Spring
The evening star Is the most beautiful of all stars.
SAPPHO

Beautiful Evening Stars
Without warning as a whirlwind swoops on an oak Love shakes my heart.
SAPPHO

Heart Love Shake Warning

Beauty endures only for as long as it can be seen; goodness, beautiful today, will remain so tomorrow.

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