The Moon and Pleiades have set, Midnight is nigh, The time is passing, passing, yet Alone I lie.
SAPPHOLove – bittersweet, irrepressible – loosens my limbs and I tremble.
More Sappho Quotes
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The moon has set, and the Pleiades; it is midnight, and time passes, and I sleep alone.
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I do not know what to do, my mind’s in two.
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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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You may forget but let me tell you this: someone in some future time will think of us.
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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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Stand and face me, my love,and scatter the grace in your eyes.
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I took my lyre and said: come now, my heavenly tortoise shell: become a speaking instrument.
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Love, like a mountain-wind upon an oak, falling upon me, shakes me leaf and bough.
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What cannot be said will be wept.
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I know not what to do, my mind is divided.
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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.
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Love is a cunning weaver of fantasies and fables.
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Love shook my heart/ Like the wind on the mountain/ Troubling the oak-trees.
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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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No honey for me, if it comes with a bee.
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