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Hesperus bringing together All that the morning star scattered.

Sappho

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

Fall Love Mountain Nature
From all the offspring of the earth and heaven love is the most precious.
SAPPHO

Earth Heaven Precious
There is no place for grief in a house which serves the Muse.
SAPPHO

Grief Home Place Serve
Mere air, these words, but delicious to hear.
SAPPHO

Delicious Hear Word
I took my lyre and said: come now, my heavenly tortoise shell: become a speaking instrument.
SAPPHO

Heaven Instrument Myself Talk
Stand and face me, my love,and scatter the grace in your eyes.
SAPPHO

Eyes Face Grace Love Stand
Death must be an evil and the gods agree; for why else would they live for ever?
SAPPHO

Agreement Death Evil God
In gold sandals / dawn like a thief / fell upon me.
SAPPHO

Anand Thakur
Love is a cunning weaver of fantasies and fables.
SAPPHO

Fantasy Love One Liner
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.
SAPPHO

Anand Thakur
For some the fairest thing on the dark earth is Thermopylae, And the Spartan phalanx lowering lances to die.
SAPPHO

Anand Thakur
I know not what to do, my mind is divided.
SAPPHO

Division Known Mindset Myself
Raise high the roof-beam, carpenters. Like Ares comes the bridegroom, taller far than a tall man.
SAPPHO

High Man Marriage Tall
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.
SAPPHO

Black Earth Face Infant Love Oneself
I do not know what to do, my mind’s in two.
SAPPHO

Mindset Myself
No honey for me, if it comes with a bee.
SAPPHO

Anand Thakur

Hesperus bringing together All that the morning star scattered.

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