Now the Earth with many flowers puts on her spring embroidery.
SAPPHOThe moon is setand the Pleiades; Middle ofthe night, time passes by,I lie alone.
More Sappho Quotes
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I will let my body flow like water over the gentle cushions.
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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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Would Jove appoint some flower to reign, in matchless beauty on the plain, the Rose (mankind will all agree). The Rose the queen of flowers should be.
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Without warning as a whirlwind swoops on an oak Love shakes my heart.
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You may forget but let me tell you this: someone in some future time will think of us.
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Death is an evil; the gods have so judged; had it been good, they would die.
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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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Eros seizes and shakes my very soul like the wind on the mountain shaking ancient oaks.
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No honey for me, if it comes with a bee.
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Love, like a mountain-wind upon an oak, falling upon me, shakes me leaf and bough.
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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.
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Hesperus bringing together All that the morning star scattered.
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I would not think to touch the sky with two arms
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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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Stand and face me, my love,and scatter the grace in your eyes.
SAPPHO