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.
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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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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The Moon and Pleiades have set, Midnight is nigh, The time is passing, passing, yet Alone I lie.
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Love shook my heart/ Like the wind on the mountain/ Troubling the oak-trees.
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Hesperus bringing together All that the morning star scattered.
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Love – bittersweet, irrepressible – loosens my limbs and I tremble.
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Whatever one loves most is beautiful.
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With his venom irresistible and bittersweet that loosener of limbs, Love reptile-like strikes me down
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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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Experience shows us Wealth unchaperoned by Virtue is never an innocuous neighbor.
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When anger spreads through the breath, guard thy tongue from barking idly.
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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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I do not know what to do, my mind’s in two.
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In gold sandals / dawn like a thief / fell upon me.
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The evening star Is the most beautiful of all stars.
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