Love shook my heart/ Like the wind on the mountain/ Troubling the oak-trees.
SAPPHOWhat cannot be said will be wept.
More Sappho Quotes
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I do not know what to do, my mind’s in two.
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No honey for me, if it comes with a bee.
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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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May I write words more naked than flesh, stronger than bone, more resilient than sinew, sensitive than nerve.
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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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Love, like a mountain-wind upon an oak, falling upon me, shakes me leaf and bough.
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In gold sandals / dawn like a thief / fell upon me.
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How love the limb-loosener sweeps me away.
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Without warning as a whirlwind swoops on an oak Love shakes my heart.
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The evening star Is the most beautiful of all stars.
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Stand and face me, my love,and scatter the grace in your eyes.
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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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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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Raise high the roof-beam, carpenters. Like Ares comes the bridegroom, taller far than a tall man.
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There is no place for grief in a house which serves the Muse.
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