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.
SAPPHOHe who is fair to look upon is good, and he who is good will soon be fair also.
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Now the Earth with many flowers puts on her spring embroidery.
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The moon is setand the Pleiades; Middle ofthe night, time passes by,I lie alone.
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Love – bittersweet, irrepressible – loosens my limbs and I tremble.
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All the while, believe me, I prayed our night would last twice as long.
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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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Although only breath, words which I command are immortal.
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Once again love drives me on, that loosener of limbs, bittersweet creature against which nothing can be done.
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When anger spreads through the breath, guard thy tongue from barking idly.
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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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Whatever one loves most is beautiful.
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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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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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Eros harrows my heart: wild gales sweeping desolate mountains, uprooting oaks.
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