No honey for me, if it comes with a bee.
SAPPHONo honey for me, if it comes with a bee.
SAPPHODeath must be an evil and the gods agree; for why else would they live for ever?
SAPPHOThe Moon and Pleiades have set, Midnight is nigh, The time is passing, passing, yet Alone I lie.
SAPPHODancing up the full moon Round some fair new altar Trample the soft blossoms of fine grass.
SAPPHOI took my lyre and said: come now, my heavenly tortoise shell: become a speaking instrument.
SAPPHOWhat cannot be said will be wept.
SAPPHOIn gold sandals / dawn like a thief / fell upon me.
SAPPHOEros seizes and shakes my very soul like the wind on the mountain shaking ancient oaks.
SAPPHOWould 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.
SAPPHOWhen anger spreads through the breath, guard thy tongue from barking idly.
SAPPHOWithout warning as a whirlwind swoops on an oak Love shakes my heart.
SAPPHOThe evening star Is the most beautiful of all stars.
SAPPHOBuilders, 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!
SAPPHOFrom all the offspring of the earth and heaven love is the most precious.
SAPPHORaise high the roof-beam, carpenters. Like Ares comes the bridegroom, taller far than a tall man.
SAPPHOI do not know what to do, my mind’s in two.
SAPPHO