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

Sappho

In gold sandals / dawn like a thief / fell upon me.
SAPPHO

Anand Thakur
Once again love drives me on, that loosener of limbs, bittersweet creature against which nothing can be done.
SAPPHO

Anand Thakur
Without warning as a whirlwind swoops on an oak Love shakes my heart.
SAPPHO

Heart Love Shake Warning
Mere air, these words, but delicious to hear.
SAPPHO

Delicious Hear Word
Experience shows us Wealth unchaperoned by Virtue is never an innocuous neighbor.
SAPPHO

Experience Neighbor Virtue
From all the offspring of the earth and heaven love is the most precious.
SAPPHO

Earth Heaven Precious
The moon has set, and the Pleiades; it is midnight, and time passes, and I sleep alone.
SAPPHO

Alone Moon Pass Sleep Time
How love the limb-loosener sweeps me away.
SAPPHO

Away Love Myself
Hesperus bringing together All that the morning star scattered.
SAPPHO

Bring Morning Togetherness
Although only breath, words which I command are immortal.
SAPPHO

Breathe Command Immortal Myself Word
There is no place for grief in a house which serves the Muse.
SAPPHO

Grief Home Place Serve
The evening star Is the most beautiful of all stars.
SAPPHO

Beautiful Evening Stars
I do not know what to do, my mind’s in two.
SAPPHO

Mindset Myself
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.
SAPPHO

Alone Bank Heaven Hope Lying Moon Myself
With his venom irresistible and bittersweet that loosener of limbs, Love reptile-like strikes me down
SAPPHO

Myself Strike Venom
All the while, believe me, I prayed our night would last twice as long.
SAPPHO

Anand Thakur

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

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