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

Sappho

There is no place for grief in a house which serves the Muse.
SAPPHO

Grief Home Place Serve
I will let my body flow like water over the gentle cushions.
SAPPHO

Body Cushion Flow Gentle
Hesperus bringing together All that the morning star scattered.
SAPPHO

Bring Morning Togetherness
How love the limb-loosener sweeps me away.
SAPPHO

Away Love Myself
The moon is setand the Pleiades; Middle ofthe night, time passes by,I lie alone.
SAPPHO

Alone Moon Night Pass Time
Experience shows us Wealth unchaperoned by Virtue is never an innocuous neighbor.
SAPPHO

Experience Neighbor Virtue
No honey for me, if it comes with a bee.
SAPPHO

Anand Thakur
The evening star Is the most beautiful of all stars.
SAPPHO

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

Anand Thakur
May I write words more naked than flesh, stronger than bone, more resilient than sinew, sensitive than nerve.
SAPPHO

Naked Nerve Resilience Sensitive Word Writing
The Moon and Pleiades have set, Midnight is nigh, The time is passing, passing, yet Alone I lie.
SAPPHO

Anand Thakur
Death is an ill; ’tis thus the Gods decide: / For had death been a boon, the Gods had died.
SAPPHO

Death Decision God Sick
Mere air, these words, but delicious to hear.
SAPPHO

Delicious Hear Word
Eros harrows my heart: wild gales sweeping desolate mountains, uprooting oaks.
SAPPHO

Heart Mountain Myself Root Wild
Death is an evil; the gods have so judged; had it been good, they would die.
SAPPHO

Death Evil God Judgement
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.

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