Mere air, these words, but delicious to hear.
SAPPHO
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Grace
Stand and face me, my love,and scatter the grace in your eyes.
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Mere air, these words, but delicious to hear.
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He who is fair to look upon is good, and he who is good will soon be fair also.
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I know not what to do, my mind is divided.
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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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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.
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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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Whatever one loves most is beautiful.
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All the while, believe me, I prayed our night would last twice as long.
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Love is a cunning weaver of fantasies and fables.
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Stand and face me, my love,and scatter the grace in your eyes.
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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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The moon is setand the Pleiades; Middle ofthe night, time passes by,I lie alone.
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Love, like a mountain-wind upon an oak, falling upon me, shakes me leaf and bough.
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