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

Sappho

How love the limb-loosener sweeps me away.
SAPPHO

Away Love Myself
Love, like a mountain-wind upon an oak, falling upon me, shakes me leaf and bough.
SAPPHO

Fall Love Mountain Nature
Love is a cunning weaver of fantasies and fables.
SAPPHO

Fantasy Love One Liner
He who is fair to look upon is good, and he who is good will soon be fair also.
SAPPHO

Fair Goodness Himself
Eros seizes and shakes my very soul like the wind on the mountain shaking ancient oaks.
SAPPHO

Ancient Mountain Shake Soul
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
Love shook my heart/ Like the wind on the mountain/ Troubling the oak-trees.
SAPPHO

Heart Love Shook Tree Trouble
There is no place for grief in a house which serves the Muse.
SAPPHO

Grief Home Place Serve
Raise high the roof-beam, carpenters. Like Ares comes the bridegroom, taller far than a tall man.
SAPPHO

High Man Marriage Tall
Mere air, these words, but delicious to hear.
SAPPHO

Delicious Hear Word
In gold sandals / dawn like a thief / fell upon me.
SAPPHO

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

Forget Future Thinking Time Yourself
What cannot be said will be wept.
SAPPHO

Anand Thakur
Experience shows us Wealth unchaperoned by Virtue is never an innocuous neighbor.
SAPPHO

Experience Neighbor Virtue
The moon has set, and the Pleiades; it is midnight, and time passes, and I sleep alone.
SAPPHO

Alone Moon Pass Sleep Time
I do not know what to do, my mind’s in two.
SAPPHO

Mindset Myself

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

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