Death must be an evil and the gods agree; for why else would they live for ever?
SAPPHOThe 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.
More Sappho Quotes
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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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If you are squeamish Don’t prod the beach rubble.
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With his venom irresistible and bittersweet that loosener of limbs, Love reptile-like strikes me down
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I know not what to do, my mind is divided.
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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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I would not think to touch the sky with two arms
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I do not know what to do, my mind’s in two.
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Someone, I tell you, in another time will remember us.
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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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Love is a cunning weaver of fantasies and fables.
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The moon is setand the Pleiades; Middle ofthe night, time passes by,I lie alone.
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Eros harrows my heart: wild gales sweeping desolate mountains, uprooting oaks.
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In gold sandals / dawn like a thief / fell upon me.
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How love the limb-loosener sweeps me away.
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Love, like a mountain-wind upon an oak, falling upon me, shakes me leaf and bough.
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