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

Sappho

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

Death Evil God Judgement
Whatever one loves most is beautiful.
SAPPHO

Anand Thakur
No honey for me, if it comes with a bee.
SAPPHO

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

Heaven Instrument Myself Talk
I do not know what to do, my mind’s in two.
SAPPHO

Mindset Myself
Someone, I tell you, in another time will remember us.
SAPPHO

Anand Thakur
Now the Earth with many flowers puts on her spring embroidery.
SAPPHO

Earth Embroidery Flower Spring
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.
SAPPHO

Alone Bank Heaven Hope Lying Moon Myself
Hesperus bringing together All that the morning star scattered.
SAPPHO

Bring Morning Togetherness
You may forget but let me tell you this: someone in some future time will think of us.
SAPPHO

Forget Future Thinking Time Yourself
Raise high the roof-beam, carpenters. Like Ares comes the bridegroom, taller far than a tall man.
SAPPHO

High Man Marriage Tall
The Moon and Pleiades have set, Midnight is nigh, The time is passing, passing, yet Alone I lie.
SAPPHO

Anand Thakur
The moon is setand the Pleiades; Middle ofthe night, time passes by,I lie alone.
SAPPHO

Alone Moon Night Pass Time
In gold sandals / dawn like a thief / fell upon me.
SAPPHO

Anand Thakur
For some the fairest thing on the dark earth is Thermopylae, And the Spartan phalanx lowering lances to die.
SAPPHO

Anand Thakur
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.
SAPPHO

Black Earth Face Infant Love Oneself
How love the limb-loosener sweeps me away.
SAPPHO

Away Love Myself
The evening star Is the most beautiful of all stars.
SAPPHO

Beautiful Evening Stars
With his venom irresistible and bittersweet that loosener of limbs, Love reptile-like strikes me down
SAPPHO

Myself Strike Venom
What cannot be said will be wept.
SAPPHO

Anand Thakur
Love is a cunning weaver of fantasies and fables.
SAPPHO

Fantasy Love One Liner
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
There is no place for grief in a house which serves the Muse.
SAPPHO

Grief Home Place Serve
From all the offspring of the earth and heaven love is the most precious.
SAPPHO

Earth Heaven Precious
I will let my body flow like water over the gentle cushions.
SAPPHO

Body Cushion Flow Gentle
When anger spreads through the breath, guard thy tongue from barking idly.
SAPPHO

Anand Thakur

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

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