The evening star Is the most beautiful of all stars.
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.
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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 know not what to do, my mind is divided.
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The moon is setand the Pleiades; Middle ofthe night, time passes by,I lie alone.
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I took my lyre and said: come now, my heavenly tortoise shell: become a speaking instrument.
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No honey for me, if it comes with a bee.
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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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Eros seizes and shakes my very soul like the wind on the mountain shaking ancient oaks.
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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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Death is an ill; ’tis thus the Gods decide: / For had death been a boon, the Gods had died.
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How love the limb-loosener sweeps me away.
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Love – bittersweet, irrepressible – loosens my limbs and I tremble.
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There is no place for grief in a house which serves the Muse.
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Eros harrows my heart: wild gales sweeping desolate mountains, uprooting oaks.
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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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Beauty endures only for as long as it can be seen; goodness, beautiful today, will remain so tomorrow.
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