Someone, I tell you, in another time will remember us.
SAPPHOSome say an army of horsemen, or infantry, A fleet of ships is the fairest thing On the face of the black earth, but I say It’s what one loves.
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Some say an army of horsemen, or infantry, A fleet of ships is the fairest thing On the face of the black earth, but I say It’s what one loves.
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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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Whatever one loves most is beautiful.
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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 would not think to touch the sky with two arms
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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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From all the offspring of the earth and heaven love is the most precious.
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Experience shows us Wealth unchaperoned by Virtue is never an innocuous neighbor.
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If you are squeamish Don’t prod the beach rubble.
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Love – bittersweet, irrepressible – loosens my limbs and I tremble.
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Death is an evil; the gods have so judged; had it been good, they would die.
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Love, like a mountain-wind upon an oak, falling upon me, shakes me leaf and bough.
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In gold sandals / dawn like a thief / fell upon me.
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I know not what to do, my mind is divided.
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With his venom irresistible and bittersweet that loosener of limbs, Love reptile-like strikes me down
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