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.
SAPPHOEros harrows my heart: wild gales sweeping desolate mountains, uprooting oaks.
More Sappho Quotes
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May I write words more naked than flesh, stronger than bone, more resilient than sinew, sensitive than nerve.
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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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I know not what to do, my mind is divided.
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Someone, I tell you, in another time will remember us.
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Although only breath, words which I command are immortal.
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For some the fairest thing on the dark earth is Thermopylae, And the Spartan phalanx lowering lances to die.
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The moon is setand the Pleiades; Middle ofthe night, time passes by,I lie alone.
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Eros seizes and shakes my very soul like the wind on the mountain shaking ancient oaks.
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Love shook my heart/ Like the wind on the mountain/ Troubling the oak-trees.
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I will let my body flow like water over the gentle cushions.
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If you are squeamish Don’t prod the beach rubble.
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In gold sandals / dawn like a thief / fell upon me.
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How love the limb-loosener sweeps me away.
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Hesperus bringing together All that the morning star scattered.
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I would not think to touch the sky with two arms
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