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The moon has set, and the Pleiades; it is midnight, and time passes, and I sleep alone.

Sappho

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

Heart Love Shook Tree Trouble
Without warning as a whirlwind swoops on an oak Love shakes my heart.
SAPPHO

Heart Love Shake Warning
Raise high the roof-beam, carpenters. Like Ares comes the bridegroom, taller far than a tall man.
SAPPHO

High Man Marriage Tall
You may forget but let me tell you this: someone in some future time will think of us.
SAPPHO

Forget Future Thinking Time Yourself
Once again love drives me on, that loosener of limbs, bittersweet creature against which nothing can be done.
SAPPHO

Anand Thakur
If you are squeamish Don’t prod the beach rubble.
SAPPHO

Nature Yourself
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
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
Eros harrows my heart: wild gales sweeping desolate mountains, uprooting oaks.
SAPPHO

Heart Mountain Myself Root Wild
How love the limb-loosener sweeps me away.
SAPPHO

Away Love Myself
Someone, I tell you, in another time will remember us.
SAPPHO

Anand Thakur
All the while, believe me, I prayed our night would last twice as long.
SAPPHO

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

Anand Thakur
He who is fair to look upon is good, and he who is good will soon be fair also.
SAPPHO

Fair Goodness Himself
I know not what to do, my mind is divided.
SAPPHO

Division Known Mindset Myself
Hesperus bringing together All that the morning star scattered.
SAPPHO

Bring Morning Togetherness

The moon has set, and the Pleiades; it is midnight, and time passes, and I sleep alone.

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