When anger spreads through the breath, guard thy tongue from barking idly.
SAPPHO
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You may forget but let me tell you this: someone in some future time will think of us.
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When anger spreads through the breath, guard thy tongue from barking idly.
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Mere air, these words, but delicious to hear.
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You may forget but let me tell you this: someone in some future time will think of us.
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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 is setand the Pleiades; Middle ofthe night, time passes by,I lie alone.
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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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Dancing up the full moon Round some fair new altar Trample the soft blossoms of fine grass.
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He who is fair to look upon is good, and he who is good will soon be fair also.
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Stand and face me, my love,and scatter the grace in your eyes.
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Death is an evil; the gods have so judged; had it been good, they would die.
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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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In gold sandals / dawn like a thief / fell upon me.
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For some the fairest thing on the dark earth is Thermopylae, And the Spartan phalanx lowering lances to die.
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Eros harrows my heart: wild gales sweeping desolate mountains, uprooting oaks.
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I know not what to do, my mind is divided.
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