Hesperus bringing together All that the morning star scattered.
SAPPHOMay I write words more naked than flesh, stronger than bone, more resilient than sinew, sensitive than nerve.
More Sappho Quotes
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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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Beauty endures only for as long as it can be seen; goodness, beautiful today, will remain so tomorrow.
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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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Now the Earth with many flowers puts on her spring embroidery.
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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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Death is an evil; the gods have so judged; had it been good, they would die.
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How love the limb-loosener sweeps me away.
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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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Dancing up the full moon Round some fair new altar Trample the soft blossoms of fine grass.
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What cannot be said will be wept.
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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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The moon has set, and the Pleiades; it is midnight, and time passes, and I sleep alone.
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No honey for me, if it comes with a bee.
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All the while, believe me, I prayed our night would last twice as long.
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Once again love drives me on, that loosener of limbs, bittersweet creature against which nothing can be done.
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