With his venom irresistible and bittersweet that loosener of limbs, Love reptile-like strikes me down
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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Love, like a mountain-wind upon an oak, falling upon me, shakes me leaf and bough.
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Without warning as a whirlwind swoops on an oak Love shakes my heart.
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If you are squeamish Don’t prod the beach rubble.
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Hesperus bringing together All that the morning star scattered.
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In gold sandals / dawn like a thief / fell upon me.
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There is no place for grief in a house which serves the Muse.
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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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You may forget but let me tell you this: someone in some future time will think of 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 evening star Is the most beautiful of all stars.
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Raise high the roof-beam, carpenters. Like Ares comes the bridegroom, taller far than a tall man.
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Love – bittersweet, irrepressible – loosens my limbs and I tremble.
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Dancing up the full moon Round some fair new altar Trample the soft blossoms of fine grass.
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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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Love shook my heart/ Like the wind on the mountain/ Troubling the oak-trees.
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