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Love shook my heart/ Like the wind on the mountain/ Troubling the oak-trees.

Sappho

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
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.
SAPPHO

Anand Thakur
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!
SAPPHO

Build Marriage Raise Sky
Dancing up the full moon Round some fair new altar Trample the soft blossoms of fine grass.
SAPPHO

Anand Thakur
When anger spreads through the breath, guard thy tongue from barking idly.
SAPPHO

Anand Thakur
Once again love drives me on, that loosener of limbs, bittersweet creature against which nothing can be done.
SAPPHO

Anand Thakur
Whatever one loves most is beautiful.
SAPPHO

Anand Thakur
Experience shows us Wealth unchaperoned by Virtue is never an innocuous neighbor.
SAPPHO

Experience Neighbor Virtue
Without warning as a whirlwind swoops on an oak Love shakes my heart.
SAPPHO

Heart Love Shake Warning
There is no place for grief in a house which serves the Muse.
SAPPHO

Grief Home Place Serve
Although only breath, words which I command are immortal.
SAPPHO

Breathe Command Immortal Myself Word
Mere air, these words, but delicious to hear.
SAPPHO

Delicious Hear Word
For some the fairest thing on the dark earth is Thermopylae, And the Spartan phalanx lowering lances to die.
SAPPHO

Anand Thakur
I know not what to do, my mind is divided.
SAPPHO

Division Known Mindset Myself
Someone, I tell you, in another time will remember us.
SAPPHO

Anand Thakur
In gold sandals / dawn like a thief / fell upon me.
SAPPHO

Anand Thakur

Love shook my heart/ Like the wind on the mountain/ Troubling the oak-trees.

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Love shook my heart/ Like the wind on the mountain/ Troubling the oak-trees.

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