Hesperus bringing together All that the morning star scattered.
SAPPHOI do not know what to do, my mind’s in two.
More Sappho Quotes
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Death is an ill; ’tis thus the Gods decide: / For had death been a boon, the Gods had died.
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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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For some the fairest thing on the dark earth is Thermopylae, And the Spartan phalanx lowering lances to die.
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Love shook my heart/ Like the wind on the mountain/ Troubling the oak-trees.
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I know not what to do, my mind is divided.
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How love the limb-loosener sweeps me away.
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He who is fair to look upon is good, and he who is good will soon be fair also.
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Now the Earth with many flowers puts on her spring embroidery.
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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.
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With his venom irresistible and bittersweet that loosener of limbs, Love reptile-like strikes me down
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Someone, I tell you, in another time will remember us.
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Love – bittersweet, irrepressible – loosens my limbs and I tremble.
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Stand and face me, my love,and scatter the grace in your eyes.
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The moon is setand the Pleiades; Middle ofthe night, time passes by,I lie alone.
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Without warning as a whirlwind swoops on an oak Love shakes my heart.
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In gold sandals / dawn like a thief / fell upon me.
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Eros harrows my heart: wild gales sweeping desolate mountains, uprooting oaks.
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Experience shows us Wealth unchaperoned by Virtue is never an innocuous neighbor.
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I do not know what to do, my mind’s in two.
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There is no place for grief in a house which serves the Muse.
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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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Death must be an evil and the gods agree; for why else would they live for ever?
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Love, like a mountain-wind upon an oak, falling upon me, shakes me leaf and bough.
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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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Raise high the roof-beam, carpenters. Like Ares comes the bridegroom, taller far than a tall man.
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