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Stand and face me, my love,and scatter the grace in your eyes.

Sappho

No honey for me, if it comes with a bee.
SAPPHO

Anand Thakur
The moon has set, and the Pleiades; it is midnight, and time passes, and I sleep alone.
SAPPHO

Alone Moon Pass Sleep Time
I would not think to touch the sky with two arms
SAPPHO

Anand Thakur
With his venom irresistible and bittersweet that loosener of limbs, Love reptile-like strikes me down
SAPPHO

Myself Strike Venom
Now the Earth with many flowers puts on her spring embroidery.
SAPPHO

Earth Embroidery Flower Spring
I do not know what to do, my mind’s in two.
SAPPHO

Mindset Myself
Love – bittersweet, irrepressible – loosens my limbs and I tremble.
SAPPHO

Love Myself Tremble
There is no place for grief in a house which serves the Muse.
SAPPHO

Grief Home Place Serve
When anger spreads through the breath, guard thy tongue from barking idly.
SAPPHO

Anand Thakur
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.
SAPPHO

Anand Thakur
Love is a cunning weaver of fantasies and fables.
SAPPHO

Fantasy Love One Liner
Death must be an evil and the gods agree; for why else would they live for ever?
SAPPHO

Agreement Death Evil God
Mere air, these words, but delicious to hear.
SAPPHO

Delicious Hear Word
Eros harrows my heart: wild gales sweeping desolate mountains, uprooting oaks.
SAPPHO

Heart Mountain Myself Root Wild
He who is fair to look upon is good, and he who is good will soon be fair also.
SAPPHO

Fair Goodness Himself
Although only breath, words which I command are immortal.
SAPPHO

Breathe Command Immortal Myself Word

Stand and face me, my love,and scatter the grace in your eyes.

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