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!
SAPPHOEros harrows my heart: wild gales sweeping desolate mountains, uprooting oaks.
More Sappho Quotes
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Stand and face me, my love,and scatter the grace in your eyes.
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Mere air, these words, but delicious to hear.
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The evening star Is the most beautiful of all stars.
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May I write words more naked than flesh, stronger than bone, more resilient than sinew, sensitive than nerve.
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Someone, I tell you, in another time will remember us.
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I know not what to do, my mind is divided.
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Love is a cunning weaver of fantasies and fables.
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There is no place for grief in a house which serves the Muse.
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How love the limb-loosener sweeps me away.
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I will let my body flow like water over the gentle cushions.
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What cannot be said will be wept.
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Without warning as a whirlwind swoops on an oak Love shakes my heart.
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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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The Moon and Pleiades have set, Midnight is nigh, The time is passing, passing, yet Alone I lie.
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All the while, believe me, I prayed our night would last twice as long.
SAPPHO