For some the fairest thing on the dark earth is Thermopylae, And the Spartan phalanx lowering lances to die.
SAPPHOLove shook my heart/ Like the wind on the mountain/ Troubling the oak-trees.
More Sappho Quotes
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There is no place for grief in a house which serves the Muse.
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Death must be an evil and the gods agree; for why else would they live for ever?
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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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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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I know not what to do, my mind is divided.
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Stand and face me, my love,and scatter the grace in your eyes.
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Love, like a mountain-wind upon an oak, falling upon me, shakes me leaf and bough.
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I will let my body flow like water over the gentle cushions.
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Love shook my heart/ Like the wind on the mountain/ Troubling the oak-trees.
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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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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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Experience shows us Wealth unchaperoned by Virtue is never an innocuous neighbor.
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What cannot be said will be wept.
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Eros harrows my heart: wild gales sweeping desolate mountains, uprooting oaks.
SAPPHO