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

Sappho

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

High Man Marriage Tall
Eros harrows my heart: wild gales sweeping desolate mountains, uprooting oaks.
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Heart Mountain Myself Root Wild
Now the Earth with many flowers puts on her spring embroidery.
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Earth Embroidery Flower Spring
How love the limb-loosener sweeps me away.
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Away Love Myself
With his venom irresistible and bittersweet that loosener of limbs, Love reptile-like strikes me down
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Myself Strike Venom
Love shook my heart/ Like the wind on the mountain/ Troubling the oak-trees.
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Heart Love Shook Tree Trouble
If you are squeamish Don’t prod the beach rubble.
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Nature Yourself
What cannot be said will be wept.
SAPPHO

Anand Thakur
Love, like a mountain-wind upon an oak, falling upon me, shakes me leaf and bough.
SAPPHO

Fall Love Mountain Nature
When anger spreads through the breath, guard thy tongue from barking idly.
SAPPHO

Anand Thakur
Beauty endures only for as long as it can be seen; goodness, beautiful today, will remain so tomorrow.
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Beautiful Endurance Goodness Willing
The moon is setand the Pleiades; Middle ofthe night, time passes by,I lie alone.
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Alone Moon Night Pass Time
Someone, I tell you, in another time will remember us.
SAPPHO

Anand Thakur
I know not what to do, my mind is divided.
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Division Known Mindset Myself
Without warning as a whirlwind swoops on an oak Love shakes my heart.
SAPPHO

Heart Love Shake Warning
Dancing up the full moon Round some fair new altar Trample the soft blossoms of fine grass.
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Anand Thakur

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

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