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Love – bittersweet, irrepressible – loosens my limbs and I tremble.

Sappho

You may forget but let me tell you this: someone in some future time will think of us.
SAPPHO

Forget Future Thinking Time Yourself
Hesperus bringing together All that the morning star scattered.
SAPPHO

Bring Morning Togetherness
From all the offspring of the earth and heaven love is the most precious.
SAPPHO

Earth Heaven Precious
Without warning as a whirlwind swoops on an oak Love shakes my heart.
SAPPHO

Heart Love Shake Warning
In gold sandals / dawn like a thief / fell upon me.
SAPPHO

Anand Thakur
Someone, I tell you, in another time will remember us.
SAPPHO

Anand Thakur
I would not think to touch the sky with two arms
SAPPHO

Anand Thakur
For some the fairest thing on the dark earth is Thermopylae, And the Spartan phalanx lowering lances to die.
SAPPHO

Anand Thakur
I do not know what to do, my mind’s in two.
SAPPHO

Mindset Myself
What cannot be said will be wept.
SAPPHO

Anand Thakur
Stand and face me, my love,and scatter the grace in your eyes.
SAPPHO

Eyes Face Grace Love Stand
Once again love drives me on, that loosener of limbs, bittersweet creature against which nothing can be done.
SAPPHO

Anand Thakur
The evening star Is the most beautiful of all stars.
SAPPHO

Beautiful Evening Stars
Death is an ill; ’tis thus the Gods decide: / For had death been a boon, the Gods had died.
SAPPHO

Death Decision God Sick
Love is a cunning weaver of fantasies and fables.
SAPPHO

Fantasy Love One Liner
Death must be an evil and the gods agree; for why else would they live for ever?
SAPPHO

Agreement Death Evil God

Love – bittersweet, irrepressible – loosens my limbs and I tremble.

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