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Eros seizes and shakes my very soul like the wind on the mountain shaking ancient oaks.

Sappho

Some 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.
SAPPHO

Black Earth Face Infant Love Oneself
Although only breath, words which I command are immortal.
SAPPHO

Breathe Command Immortal Myself Word
I will let my body flow like water over the gentle cushions.
SAPPHO

Body Cushion Flow Gentle
I took my lyre and said: come now, my heavenly tortoise shell: become a speaking instrument.
SAPPHO

Heaven Instrument Myself Talk
For some the fairest thing on the dark earth is Thermopylae, And the Spartan phalanx lowering lances to die.
SAPPHO

Anand Thakur
No honey for me, if it comes with a bee.
SAPPHO

Anand Thakur
Mere air, these words, but delicious to hear.
SAPPHO

Delicious Hear Word
From all the offspring of the earth and heaven love is the most precious.
SAPPHO

Earth Heaven Precious
I know not what to do, my mind is divided.
SAPPHO

Division Known Mindset Myself
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
Love shook my heart/ Like the wind on the mountain/ Troubling the oak-trees.
SAPPHO

Heart Love Shook Tree Trouble
Hesperus bringing together All that the morning star scattered.
SAPPHO

Bring Morning Togetherness
With his venom irresistible and bittersweet that loosener of limbs, Love reptile-like strikes me down
SAPPHO

Myself Strike Venom
Eros harrows my heart: wild gales sweeping desolate mountains, uprooting oaks.
SAPPHO

Heart Mountain Myself Root Wild
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
Death is an evil; the gods have so judged; had it been good, they would die.
SAPPHO

Death Evil God Judgement

Eros seizes and shakes my very soul like the wind on the mountain shaking ancient oaks.

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