Without warning as a whirlwind swoops on an oak Love shakes my heart.
SAPPHO
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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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I took my lyre and said: come now, my heavenly tortoise shell: become a speaking instrument.
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In gold sandals / dawn like a thief / fell upon me.
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Someone, I tell you, in another time will remember us.
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Stand and face me, my love,and scatter the grace in your eyes.
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Death is an evil; the gods have so judged; had it been good, they would die.
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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 is a cunning weaver of fantasies and fables.
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Death is an ill; ’tis thus the Gods decide: / For had death been a boon, the Gods had died.
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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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Eros harrows my heart: wild gales sweeping desolate mountains, uprooting oaks.
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Love, like a mountain-wind upon an oak, falling upon me, shakes me leaf and bough.
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I do not know what to do, my mind’s in two.
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I will let my body flow like water over the gentle cushions.
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Beauty endures only for as long as it can be seen; goodness, beautiful today, will remain so tomorrow.
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