Love shook my heart/ Like the wind on the mountain/ Troubling the oak-trees.
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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Eros harrows my heart: wild gales sweeping desolate mountains, uprooting oaks.
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Hesperus bringing together All that the morning star scattered.
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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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Someone, I tell you, in another time will remember us.
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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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Without warning as a whirlwind swoops on an oak Love shakes my heart.
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I do not know what to do, my mind’s in two.
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May I write words more naked than flesh, stronger than bone, more resilient than sinew, sensitive than nerve.
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No honey for me, if it comes with a bee.
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The moon is setand the Pleiades; Middle ofthe night, time passes by,I lie alone.
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Eros seizes and shakes my very soul like the wind on the mountain shaking ancient oaks.
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What cannot be said will be wept.
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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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In gold sandals / dawn like a thief / fell upon me.
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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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