The Moon and Pleiades have set, Midnight is nigh, The time is passing, passing, yet Alone I lie.
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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From all the offspring of the earth and heaven love is the most precious.
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Love, like a mountain-wind upon an oak, falling upon me, shakes me leaf and bough.
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Mere air, these words, but delicious to hear.
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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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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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Someone, I tell you, in another time will remember us.
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If you are squeamish Don’t prod the beach rubble.
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For some the fairest thing on the dark earth is Thermopylae, And the Spartan phalanx lowering lances to die.
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I took my lyre and said: come now, my heavenly tortoise shell: become a speaking instrument.
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Whatever one loves most is beautiful.
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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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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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In gold sandals / dawn like a thief / fell upon me.
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Stand and face me, my love,and scatter the grace in your eyes.
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