In gold sandals / dawn like a thief / fell upon me.
SAPPHONo honey for me, if it comes with a bee.
More Sappho Quotes
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Hesperus bringing together All that the morning star scattered.
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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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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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Although only breath, words which I command are immortal.
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Love, like a mountain-wind upon an oak, falling upon me, shakes me leaf and bough.
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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 is setand the Pleiades; Middle ofthe night, time passes by,I lie alone.
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Stand and face me, my love,and scatter the grace in your eyes.
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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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What cannot be said will be wept.
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There is no place for grief in a house which serves the Muse.
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No honey for me, if it comes with a bee.
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Beauty endures only for as long as it can be seen; goodness, beautiful today, will remain so tomorrow.
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Love – bittersweet, irrepressible – loosens my limbs and I tremble.
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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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I took my lyre and said: come now, my heavenly tortoise shell: become a speaking instrument.
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Eros harrows my heart: wild gales sweeping desolate mountains, uprooting oaks.
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Whatever one loves most is beautiful.
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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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The evening star Is the most beautiful of all stars.
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With his venom irresistible and bittersweet that loosener of limbs, Love reptile-like strikes me down
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Without warning as a whirlwind swoops on an oak Love shakes my heart.
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Eros seizes and shakes my very soul like the wind on the mountain shaking ancient oaks.
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I will let my body flow like water over the gentle cushions.
SAPPHO