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.
SAPPHOI took my lyre and said: come now, my heavenly tortoise shell: become a speaking instrument.
More Sappho Quotes
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Eros seizes and shakes my very soul like the wind on the mountain shaking ancient oaks.
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Hesperus bringing together All that the morning star scattered.
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Love shook my heart/ Like the wind on the mountain/ Troubling the oak-trees.
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If you are squeamish Don’t prod the beach rubble.
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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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Now the Earth with many flowers puts on her spring embroidery.
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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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Mere air, these words, but delicious to hear.
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I would not think to touch the sky with two arms
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There is no place for grief in a house which serves the Muse.
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Beauty endures only for as long as it can be seen; goodness, beautiful today, will remain so tomorrow.
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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.
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Stand and face me, my love,and scatter the grace in your eyes.
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Love is a cunning weaver of fantasies and fables.
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Raise high the roof-beam, carpenters. Like Ares comes the bridegroom, taller far than a tall man.
SAPPHO