All the while, believe me, I prayed our night would last twice as long.
SAPPHOThe 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.
More Sappho Quotes
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The moon is setand the Pleiades; Middle ofthe night, time passes by,I lie alone.
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Death is an evil; the gods have so judged; had it been good, they would die.
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How love the limb-loosener sweeps me away.
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The moon has set, and the Pleiades; it is midnight, and time passes, and I sleep alone.
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Love – bittersweet, irrepressible – loosens my limbs and I tremble.
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I would not think to touch the sky with two arms
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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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Builders, raise the ceiling high, Raise the dome into the sky, Hear the wedding song! For the happy groom is near, Tall as Mars, and statelier, Hear the wedding song!
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Death must be an evil and the gods agree; for why else would they live for ever?
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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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Love, like a mountain-wind upon an oak, falling upon me, shakes me leaf and bough.
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Eros seizes and shakes my very soul like the wind on the mountain shaking ancient oaks.
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Although only breath, words which I command are immortal.
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Whatever one loves most is beautiful.
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When anger spreads through the breath, guard thy tongue from barking idly.
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