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Raise high the roof-beam, carpenters. Like Ares comes the bridegroom, taller far than a tall man.

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

Ancient Mountain Shake Soul
Eros harrows my heart: wild gales sweeping desolate mountains, uprooting oaks.
SAPPHO

Heart Mountain Myself Root Wild
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.
SAPPHO

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

Fantasy Love One Liner
For some the fairest thing on the dark earth is Thermopylae, And the Spartan phalanx lowering lances to die.
SAPPHO

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

Alone Moon Pass Sleep Time
Without warning as a whirlwind swoops on an oak Love shakes my heart.
SAPPHO

Heart Love Shake Warning
Someone, I tell you, in another time will remember us.
SAPPHO

Anand Thakur
Mere air, these words, but delicious to hear.
SAPPHO

Delicious Hear Word
Love – bittersweet, irrepressible – loosens my limbs and I tremble.
SAPPHO

Love Myself Tremble
All the while, believe me, I prayed our night would last twice as long.
SAPPHO

Anand Thakur
How love the limb-loosener sweeps me away.
SAPPHO

Away Love Myself
The Moon and Pleiades have set, Midnight is nigh, The time is passing, passing, yet Alone I lie.
SAPPHO

Anand Thakur
Hesperus bringing together All that the morning star scattered.
SAPPHO

Bring Morning Togetherness
No honey for me, if it comes with a bee.
SAPPHO

Anand Thakur

Raise high the roof-beam, carpenters. Like Ares comes the bridegroom, taller far than a tall man.

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