From all the offspring of the earth and heaven love is the most precious.
SAPPHOEros harrows my heart: wild gales sweeping desolate mountains, uprooting oaks.
More Sappho Quotes
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Eros seizes and shakes my very soul like the wind on the mountain shaking ancient oaks.
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Whatever one loves most is beautiful.
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He who is fair to look upon is good, and he who is good will soon be fair also.
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Hesperus bringing together All that the morning star scattered.
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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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Love is a cunning weaver of fantasies and fables.
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I will let my body flow like water over the gentle cushions.
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Once again love drives me on, that loosener of limbs, bittersweet creature against which nothing can be done.
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If you are squeamish Don’t prod the beach rubble.
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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 shook my heart/ Like the wind on the mountain/ Troubling the oak-trees.
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Love, like a mountain-wind upon an oak, falling upon me, shakes me leaf and bough.
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Eros harrows my heart: wild gales sweeping desolate mountains, uprooting oaks.
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When anger spreads through the breath, guard thy tongue from barking idly.
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Stand and face me, my love,and scatter the grace in your eyes.
SAPPHO