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!
SAPPHOHe who is fair to look upon is good, and he who is good will soon be fair also.
More Sappho Quotes
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Love is a cunning weaver of fantasies and fables.
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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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All the while, believe me, I prayed our night would last twice as long.
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If you are squeamish Don’t prod the beach rubble.
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From all the offspring of the earth and heaven love is the most precious.
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There is no place for grief in a house which serves the Muse.
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Without warning as a whirlwind swoops on an oak Love shakes my heart.
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When anger spreads through the breath, guard thy tongue from barking idly.
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What cannot be said will be wept.
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I know not what to do, my mind is divided.
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Love, like a mountain-wind upon an oak, falling upon me, shakes me leaf and bough.
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Now the Earth with many flowers puts on her spring embroidery.
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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 – bittersweet, irrepressible – loosens my limbs and I tremble.
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With his venom irresistible and bittersweet that loosener of limbs, Love reptile-like strikes me down
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