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Dancing up the full moon Round some fair new altar Trample the soft blossoms of fine grass.

Sappho

Hesperus bringing together All that the morning star scattered.
SAPPHO

Bring Morning Togetherness
Someone, I tell you, in another time will remember us.
SAPPHO

Anand Thakur
For some the fairest thing on the dark earth is Thermopylae, And the Spartan phalanx lowering lances to die.
SAPPHO

Anand Thakur
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.
SAPPHO

Alone Bank Heaven Hope Lying Moon Myself
From all the offspring of the earth and heaven love is the most precious.
SAPPHO

Earth Heaven Precious
I will let my body flow like water over the gentle cushions.
SAPPHO

Body Cushion Flow Gentle
Experience shows us Wealth unchaperoned by Virtue is never an innocuous neighbor.
SAPPHO

Experience Neighbor Virtue
The evening star Is the most beautiful of all stars.
SAPPHO

Beautiful Evening Stars
I know not what to do, my mind is divided.
SAPPHO

Division Known Mindset Myself
If you are squeamish Don’t prod the beach rubble.
SAPPHO

Nature Yourself
Stand and face me, my love,and scatter the grace in your eyes.
SAPPHO

Eyes Face Grace Love Stand
May I write words more naked than flesh, stronger than bone, more resilient than sinew, sensitive than nerve.
SAPPHO

Naked Nerve Resilience Sensitive Word Writing
The moon is setand the Pleiades; Middle ofthe night, time passes by,I lie alone.
SAPPHO

Alone Moon Night Pass Time
Death is an ill; ’tis thus the Gods decide: / For had death been a boon, the Gods had died.
SAPPHO

Death Decision God Sick
When anger spreads through the breath, guard thy tongue from barking idly.
SAPPHO

Anand Thakur
Love – bittersweet, irrepressible – loosens my limbs and I tremble.
SAPPHO

Love Myself Tremble

Dancing up the full moon Round some fair new altar Trample the soft blossoms of fine grass.

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