The moon has set, and the Pleiades; it is midnight, and time passes, and I sleep alone.
SAPPHODeath is an ill; ’tis thus the Gods decide: / For had death been a boon, the Gods had died.
More Sappho Quotes
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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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In gold sandals / dawn like a thief / fell upon me.
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I do not know what to do, my mind’s in two.
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Love is a cunning weaver of fantasies and fables.
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Experience shows us Wealth unchaperoned by Virtue is never an innocuous neighbor.
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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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The moon is setand the Pleiades; Middle ofthe night, time passes by,I lie alone.
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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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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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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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I took my lyre and said: come now, my heavenly tortoise shell: become a speaking instrument.
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I know not what to do, my mind is divided.
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Beauty endures only for as long as it can be seen; goodness, beautiful today, will remain so tomorrow.
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Now the Earth with many flowers puts on her spring embroidery.
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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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