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

SAPPHO

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

Sappho

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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!

SAPPHO

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

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

SAPPHO

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

Anand Thakur
Without warning as a whirlwind swoops on an oak Love shakes my heart.

SAPPHO

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

Shake Warning
Beauty endures only for as long as it can be seen; goodness, beautiful today, will remain so tomorrow.

SAPPHO

Beauty endures only for as long as it can be seen; goodness, beautiful today, will remain so tomorrow.
SAPPHO

Willing
What cannot be said will be wept.

SAPPHO

What cannot be said will be wept.
SAPPHO

Anand Thakur
I took my lyre and said: come now, my heavenly tortoise shell: become a speaking instrument.

SAPPHO

I took my lyre and said: come now, my heavenly tortoise shell: become a speaking instrument.
SAPPHO
You may forget but let me tell you this: someone in some future time will think of us.

SAPPHO

You may forget but let me tell you this: someone in some future time will think of us.
SAPPHO
Eros seizes and shakes my very soul like the wind on the mountain shaking ancient oaks.

SAPPHO

Eros seizes and shakes my very soul like the wind on the mountain shaking ancient oaks.
SAPPHO

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

SAPPHO

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

Tall
Death is an evil; the gods have so judged; had it been good, they would die.

SAPPHO

Death is an evil; the gods have so judged; had it been good, they would die.
SAPPHO
Although only breath, words which I command are immortal.

SAPPHO

Although only breath, words which I command are immortal.
SAPPHO

Command Word
Whatever one loves most is beautiful.

SAPPHO

Whatever one loves most is beautiful.
SAPPHO

Anand Thakur
I will let my body flow like water over the gentle cushions.

SAPPHO

I will let my body flow like water over the gentle cushions.
SAPPHO

Cushion Flow Gentle
Dancing up the full moon Round some fair new altar Trample the soft blossoms of fine grass.

SAPPHO

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

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

SAPPHO

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

Anand Thakur
I would not think to touch the sky with two arms

SAPPHO

I would not think to touch the sky with two arms
SAPPHO

Anand Thakur

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