Once again love drives me on, that loosener of limbs, bittersweet creature against which nothing can be done.
SAPPHOEros harrows my heart: wild gales sweeping desolate mountains, uprooting oaks.
More Sappho Quotes
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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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With his venom irresistible and bittersweet that loosener of limbs, Love reptile-like strikes me down
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Eros harrows my heart: wild gales sweeping desolate mountains, uprooting oaks.
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Hesperus bringing together All that the morning star scattered.
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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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Death is an evil; the gods have so judged; had it been good, they would die.
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Raise high the roof-beam, carpenters. Like Ares comes the bridegroom, taller far than a tall man.
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The Moon and Pleiades have set, Midnight is nigh, The time is passing, passing, yet Alone I lie.
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There is no place for grief in a house which serves the Muse.
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Love is a cunning weaver of fantasies and fables.
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Love, like a mountain-wind upon an oak, falling upon me, shakes me leaf and bough.
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From all the offspring of the earth and heaven love is the most precious.
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In gold sandals / dawn like a thief / fell upon me.
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I do not know what to do, my mind’s in two.
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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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