What cannot be said will be wept.
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.
More Sappho Quotes
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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 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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Love shook my heart/ Like the wind on the mountain/ Troubling the oak-trees.
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Now the Earth with many flowers puts on her spring embroidery.
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Without warning as a whirlwind swoops on an oak Love shakes my heart.
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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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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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I took my lyre and said: come now, my heavenly tortoise shell: become a speaking instrument.
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Love is a cunning weaver of fantasies and fables.
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If you are squeamish Don’t prod the beach rubble.
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Builders, 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!
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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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The moon has set, and the Pleiades; it is midnight, and time passes, and I sleep alone.
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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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Whatever one loves most is beautiful.
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