Mere air, these words, but delicious to hear.
SAPPHOEros harrows my heart: wild gales sweeping desolate mountains, uprooting oaks.
More Sappho Quotes
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Love is a cunning weaver of fantasies and fables.
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I know not what to do, my mind is divided.
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I took my lyre and said: come now, my heavenly tortoise shell: become a speaking instrument.
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The evening star Is the most beautiful of all stars.
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Love, like a mountain-wind upon an oak, falling upon me, shakes me leaf and bough.
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With his venom irresistible and bittersweet that loosener of limbs, Love reptile-like strikes me down
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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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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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Stand and face me, my love,and scatter the grace in your eyes.
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If you are squeamish Don’t prod the beach rubble.
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Eros harrows my heart: wild gales sweeping desolate mountains, uprooting oaks.
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Eros seizes and shakes my very soul like the wind on the mountain shaking ancient oaks.
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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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I would not think to touch the sky with two arms
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Someone, I tell you, in another time will remember us.
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