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Death must be an evil and the gods agree; for why else would they live for ever?

Sappho

The moon has set, and the Pleiades; it is midnight, and time passes, and I sleep alone.
SAPPHO

Alone Moon Pass Sleep Time
Love shook my heart/ Like the wind on the mountain/ Troubling the oak-trees.
SAPPHO

Heart Love Shook Tree Trouble
I took my lyre and said: come now, my heavenly tortoise shell: become a speaking instrument.
SAPPHO

Heaven Instrument Myself Talk
How love the limb-loosener sweeps me away.
SAPPHO

Away Love Myself
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
Death is an evil; the gods have so judged; had it been good, they would die.
SAPPHO

Death Evil God Judgement
Love, like a mountain-wind upon an oak, falling upon me, shakes me leaf and bough.
SAPPHO

Fall Love Mountain Nature
Mere air, these words, but delicious to hear.
SAPPHO

Delicious Hear Word
I would not think to touch the sky with two arms
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
Love is a cunning weaver of fantasies and fables.
SAPPHO

Fantasy Love One Liner
There is no place for grief in a house which serves the Muse.
SAPPHO

Grief Home Place Serve
Eros seizes and shakes my very soul like the wind on the mountain shaking ancient oaks.
SAPPHO

Ancient Mountain Shake Soul
Hesperus bringing together All that the morning star scattered.
SAPPHO

Bring Morning Togetherness
Once again love drives me on, that loosener of limbs, bittersweet creature against which nothing can be done.
SAPPHO

Anand Thakur
I will let my body flow like water over the gentle cushions.
SAPPHO

Body Cushion Flow Gentle

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