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With his venom irresistible and bittersweet that loosener of limbs, Love reptile-like strikes me down

Sappho

The moon is setand the Pleiades; Middle ofthe night, time passes by,I lie alone.
SAPPHO

Alone Moon Night Pass Time
Someone, I tell you, in another time will remember us.
SAPPHO

Anand Thakur
I took my lyre and said: come now, my heavenly tortoise shell: become a speaking instrument.
SAPPHO

Heaven Instrument Myself Talk
Once again love drives me on, that loosener of limbs, bittersweet creature against which nothing can be done.
SAPPHO

Anand Thakur
Beauty endures only for as long as it can be seen; goodness, beautiful today, will remain so tomorrow.
SAPPHO

Beautiful Endurance Goodness Willing
Hesperus bringing together All that the morning star scattered.
SAPPHO

Bring Morning Togetherness
Stand and face me, my love,and scatter the grace in your eyes.
SAPPHO

Eyes Face Grace Love Stand
May I write words more naked than flesh, stronger than bone, more resilient than sinew, sensitive than nerve.
SAPPHO

Naked Nerve Resilience Sensitive Word Writing
Mere air, these words, but delicious to hear.
SAPPHO

Delicious Hear Word
I do not know what to do, my mind’s in two.
SAPPHO

Mindset Myself
Love shook my heart/ Like the wind on the mountain/ Troubling the oak-trees.
SAPPHO

Heart Love Shook Tree Trouble
Although only breath, words which I command are immortal.
SAPPHO

Breathe Command Immortal Myself Word
What cannot be said will be wept.
SAPPHO

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

Fantasy Love One Liner
How love the limb-loosener sweeps me away.
SAPPHO

Away Love Myself
Now the Earth with many flowers puts on her spring embroidery.
SAPPHO

Earth Embroidery Flower Spring

With his venom irresistible and bittersweet that loosener of limbs, Love reptile-like strikes me down

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