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!
SAPPHOBuilders, 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!
More Sappho Quotes
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Love, like a mountain-wind upon an oak, falling upon me, shakes me leaf and bough.
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From all the offspring of the earth and heaven love is the most precious.
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Eros seizes and shakes my very soul like the wind on the mountain shaking ancient oaks.
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Without warning as a whirlwind swoops on an oak Love shakes my heart.
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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.
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Hesperus bringing together All that the morning star scattered.
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What cannot be said will be wept.
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Love shook my heart/ Like the wind on the mountain/ Troubling the oak-trees.
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Love – bittersweet, irrepressible – loosens my limbs and I tremble.
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With his venom irresistible and bittersweet that loosener of limbs, Love reptile-like strikes me down
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All the while, believe me, I prayed our night would last twice as long.
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The Moon and Pleiades have set, Midnight is nigh, The time is passing, passing, yet Alone I lie.
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If you are squeamish Don’t prod the beach rubble.
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Once again love drives me on, that loosener of limbs, bittersweet creature against which nothing can be done.
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When anger spreads through the breath, guard thy tongue from barking idly.
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