Mere air, these words, but delicious to hear.
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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How love the limb-loosener sweeps me away.
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I would not think to touch the sky with two arms
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Death is an ill; ’tis thus the Gods decide: / For had death been a boon, the Gods had died.
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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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Love shook my heart/ Like the wind on the mountain/ Troubling the oak-trees.
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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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Raise high the roof-beam, carpenters. Like Ares comes the bridegroom, taller far than a tall man.
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Hesperus bringing together All that the morning star scattered.
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Although only breath, words which I command are immortal.
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All the while, believe me, I prayed our night would last twice as long.
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What cannot be said will be wept.
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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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Death must be an evil and the gods agree; for why else would they live for ever?
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In gold sandals / dawn like a thief / fell upon me.
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