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I know not what to do, my mind is divided.

Sappho

How love the limb-loosener sweeps me away.
SAPPHO

Away Love Myself
The evening star Is the most beautiful of all stars.
SAPPHO

Beautiful Evening Stars
From all the offspring of the earth and heaven love is the most precious.
SAPPHO

Earth Heaven Precious
I will let my body flow like water over the gentle cushions.
SAPPHO

Body Cushion Flow Gentle
Without warning as a whirlwind swoops on an oak Love shakes my heart.
SAPPHO

Heart Love Shake Warning
I know not what to do, my mind is divided.
SAPPHO

Division Known Mindset Myself
The moon has set, and the Pleiades; it is midnight, and time passes, and I sleep alone.
SAPPHO

Alone Moon Pass Sleep Time
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
There is no place for grief in a house which serves the Muse.
SAPPHO

Grief Home Place Serve
Love – bittersweet, irrepressible – loosens my limbs and I tremble.
SAPPHO

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

Anand Thakur
Now the Earth with many flowers puts on her spring embroidery.
SAPPHO

Earth Embroidery Flower Spring
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
Once again love drives me on, that loosener of limbs, bittersweet creature against which nothing can be done.
SAPPHO

Anand Thakur

I know not what to do, my mind is divided.

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