Although only breath, words which I command are immortal.
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Anand Thakur
Although only breath, words which I command are immortal.
SAPPHOI will let my body flow like water over the gentle cushions.
SAPPHOWhen anger spreads through the breath, guard thy tongue from barking idly.
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.
SAPPHOI do not know what to do, my mind’s in two.
SAPPHOAll the while, believe me, I prayed our night would last twice as long.
SAPPHOI took my lyre and said: come now, my heavenly tortoise shell: become a speaking instrument.
SAPPHOI know not what to do, my mind is divided.
SAPPHOLove – bittersweet, irrepressible – loosens my limbs and I tremble.
SAPPHOSome 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.
SAPPHOEros harrows my heart: wild gales sweeping desolate mountains, uprooting oaks.
SAPPHOYou may forget but let me tell you this: someone in some future time will think of us.
SAPPHORaise high the roof-beam, carpenters. Like Ares comes the bridegroom, taller far than a tall man.
SAPPHOThe moon is setand the Pleiades; Middle ofthe night, time passes by,I lie alone.
SAPPHOLove is a cunning weaver of fantasies and fables.
SAPPHOWithout warning as a whirlwind swoops on an oak Love shakes my heart.
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