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.
SAPPHOThe moon is setand the Pleiades; Middle ofthe night, time passes by,I lie alone.
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In gold sandals / dawn like a thief / fell upon me.
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No honey for me, if it comes with a bee.
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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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The Moon and Pleiades have set, Midnight is nigh, The time is passing, passing, yet Alone I lie.
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The moon has set, and the Pleiades; it is midnight, and time passes, and I sleep alone.
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Love shook my heart/ Like the wind on the mountain/ Troubling the oak-trees.
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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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Mere air, these words, but delicious to hear.
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I know not what to do, my mind is divided.
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Experience shows us Wealth unchaperoned by Virtue is never an innocuous neighbor.
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Death is an evil; the gods have so judged; had it been good, they would die.
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Love – bittersweet, irrepressible – loosens my limbs and I tremble.
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Although only breath, words which I command are immortal.
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Eros seizes and shakes my very soul like the wind on the mountain shaking ancient oaks.
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What cannot be said will be wept.
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