Now the Earth with many flowers puts on her spring embroidery.
SAPPHO
Without warning as a whirlwind swoops on an oak Love shakes my heart.
More Sappho Quotes
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Now the Earth with many flowers puts on her spring embroidery.
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Although only breath, words which I command are immortal.
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Eros harrows my heart: wild gales sweeping desolate mountains, uprooting oaks.
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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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Love is a cunning weaver of fantasies and fables.
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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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When anger spreads through the breath, guard thy tongue from barking idly.
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Death is an evil; the gods have so judged; had it been good, they would die.
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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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Raise high the roof-beam, carpenters. Like Ares comes the bridegroom, taller far than a tall man.
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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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Mere air, these words, but delicious to hear.
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No honey for me, if it comes with a bee.
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