What cannot be said will be wept.
SAPPHO
SAPPHO
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Once again love drives me on, that loosener of limbs, bittersweet creature against which nothing can be done.
SapphoSappho Dancing up the full moon Round some fair new altar Trample the soft blossoms of fine grass.
SapphoSappho When anger spreads through the breath, guard thy tongue from barking idly.
SapphoSappho No honey for me, if it comes with a bee.
SapphoSappho Whatever one loves most is beautiful.
SapphoSappho For some the fairest thing on the dark earth is Thermopylae, And the Spartan phalanx lowering lances to die.
SapphoSappho All the while, believe me, I prayed our night would last twice as long.
SapphoSappho 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.
SapphoSappho If you are squeamish Don’t prod the beach rubble.
SapphoSappho I do not know what to do, my mind’s in two.
SapphoSappho I will let my body flow like water over the gentle cushions.
SapphoSappho Death is an ill; ’tis thus the Gods decide: / For had death been a boon, the Gods had died.
SapphoSappho I know not what to do, my mind is divided.
SapphoSappho Stand and face me, my love,and scatter the grace in your eyes.
SapphoSappho 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.
SapphoSappho Eros harrows my heart: wild gales sweeping desolate mountains, uprooting oaks.
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