There is no place for grief in a house which serves the Muse.
SAPPHOWithout warning as a whirlwind swoops on an oak Love shakes my heart.
More Sappho Quotes
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I know not what to do, my mind is divided.
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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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From all the offspring of the earth and heaven love is the most precious.
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How love the limb-loosener sweeps me away.
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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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Without warning as a whirlwind swoops on an oak Love shakes my heart.
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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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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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Experience shows us Wealth unchaperoned by Virtue is never an innocuous neighbor.
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If you are squeamish Don’t prod the beach rubble.
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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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With his venom irresistible and bittersweet that loosener of limbs, Love reptile-like strikes me down
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Love shook my heart/ Like the wind on the mountain/ Troubling the oak-trees.
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Stand and face me, my love,and scatter the grace in your eyes.
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Death is an ill; ’tis thus the Gods decide: / For had death been a boon, the Gods had died.
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