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!
SAPPHOStand and face me, my love,and scatter the grace in your eyes.
More Sappho Quotes
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With his venom irresistible and bittersweet that loosener of limbs, Love reptile-like strikes me down
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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.
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Without warning as a whirlwind swoops on an oak Love shakes my heart.
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Love – bittersweet, irrepressible – loosens my limbs and I tremble.
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Dancing up the full moon Round some fair new altar Trample the soft blossoms of fine grass.
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You may forget but let me tell you this: someone in some future time will think of us.
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There is no place for grief in a house which serves the Muse.
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When anger spreads through the breath, guard thy tongue from barking idly.
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Someone, I tell you, in another time will remember us.
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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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In gold sandals / dawn like a thief / fell upon me.
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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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I do not know what to do, my mind’s in two.
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Death is an evil; the gods have so judged; had it been good, they would die.
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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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Although only breath, words which I command are immortal.
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The Moon and Pleiades have set, Midnight is nigh, The time is passing, passing, yet Alone I lie.
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Now the Earth with many flowers puts on her spring embroidery.
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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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From all the offspring of the earth and heaven love is the most precious.
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Eros seizes and shakes my very soul like the wind on the mountain shaking ancient oaks.
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The moon is setand the Pleiades; Middle ofthe night, time passes by,I lie alone.
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No honey for me, if it comes with a bee.
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May I write words more naked than flesh, stronger than bone, more resilient than sinew, sensitive than nerve.
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Mere air, these words, but delicious to hear.
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I would not think to touch the sky with two arms
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