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

Sappho

When anger spreads through the breath, guard thy tongue from barking idly.
SAPPHO

Anand Thakur
The Moon and Pleiades have set, Midnight is nigh, The time is passing, passing, yet Alone I lie.
SAPPHO

Anand Thakur
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

Build Marriage Raise Sky
I will let my body flow like water over the gentle cushions.
SAPPHO

Body Cushion Flow Gentle
Love, like a mountain-wind upon an oak, falling upon me, shakes me leaf and bough.
SAPPHO

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

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

Grief Home Place Serve
The evening star Is the most beautiful of all stars.
SAPPHO

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

Alone Moon Pass Sleep Time
From all the offspring of the earth and heaven love is the most precious.
SAPPHO

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

Breathe Command Immortal Myself Word
If you are squeamish Don’t prod the beach rubble.
SAPPHO

Nature Yourself
I took my lyre and said: come now, my heavenly tortoise shell: become a speaking instrument.
SAPPHO

Heaven Instrument Myself Talk
Without warning as a whirlwind swoops on an oak Love shakes my heart.
SAPPHO

Heart Love Shake Warning
Eros harrows my heart: wild gales sweeping desolate mountains, uprooting oaks.
SAPPHO

Heart Mountain Myself Root Wild
I know not what to do, my mind is divided.
SAPPHO

Division Known Mindset Myself

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

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