In gold sandals / dawn like a thief / fell upon me.
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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Experience shows us Wealth unchaperoned by Virtue is never an innocuous neighbor.
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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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Eros seizes and shakes my very soul like the wind on the mountain shaking ancient oaks.
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The moon is setand the Pleiades; Middle ofthe night, time passes by,I lie alone.
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Although only breath, words which I command are immortal.
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Without warning as a whirlwind swoops on an oak Love shakes my heart.
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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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May I write words more naked than flesh, stronger than bone, more resilient than sinew, sensitive than nerve.
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Death must be an evil and the gods agree; for why else would they live for ever?
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Eros harrows my heart: wild gales sweeping desolate mountains, uprooting oaks.
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I know not what to do, my mind is divided.
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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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I took my lyre and said: come now, my heavenly tortoise shell: become a speaking instrument.
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How love the limb-loosener sweeps me away.
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Dancing up the full moon Round some fair new altar Trample the soft blossoms of fine grass.
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