All the while, believe me, I prayed our night would last twice as long.
SAPPHOBuilders, 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!
More Sappho Quotes
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Hesperus bringing together All that the morning star scattered.
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I took my lyre and said: come now, my heavenly tortoise shell: become a speaking instrument.
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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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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.
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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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The moon is setand the Pleiades; Middle ofthe night, time passes by,I lie alone.
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How love the limb-loosener sweeps me away.
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Love is a cunning weaver of fantasies and fables.
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When anger spreads through the breath, guard thy tongue from barking idly.
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Although only breath, words which I command are immortal.
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I do not know what to do, my mind’s in two.
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Love, like a mountain-wind upon an oak, falling upon me, shakes me leaf and bough.
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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 evening star Is the most beautiful of all stars.
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Love – bittersweet, irrepressible – loosens my limbs and I tremble.
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