Although only breath, words which I command are immortal.
SAPPHOSome 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.
More Sappho Quotes
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Stand and face me, my love,and scatter the grace in your eyes.
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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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Now the Earth with many flowers puts on her spring embroidery.
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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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Love shook my heart/ Like the wind on the mountain/ Troubling the oak-trees.
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From all the offspring of the earth and heaven love is the most precious.
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Death is an evil; the gods have so judged; had it been good, they would die.
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Mere air, these words, but delicious to hear.
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Love, like a mountain-wind upon an oak, falling upon me, shakes me leaf and bough.
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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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Death must be an evil and the gods agree; for why else would they live for ever?
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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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Raise high the roof-beam, carpenters. Like Ares comes the bridegroom, taller far than a tall man.
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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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