With his venom irresistible and bittersweet that loosener of limbs, Love reptile-like strikes me down
SAPPHOI will let my body flow like water over the gentle cushions.
More Sappho Quotes
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Eros harrows my heart: wild gales sweeping desolate mountains, uprooting oaks.
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I would not think to touch the sky with two arms
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I will let my body flow like water over the gentle cushions.
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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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From all the offspring of the earth and heaven love is the most precious.
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Although only breath, words which I command are immortal.
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Without warning as a whirlwind swoops on an oak Love shakes my heart.
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I do not know what to do, my mind’s in two.
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When anger spreads through the breath, guard thy tongue from barking idly.
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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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Stand and face me, my love,and scatter the grace in your eyes.
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Experience shows us Wealth unchaperoned by Virtue is never an innocuous neighbor.
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Some say an army of horsemen, or infantry, A fleet of ships is the fairest thing On the face of the black earth, but I say It’s what one loves.
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How love the limb-loosener sweeps me away.
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The moon has set, and the Pleiades; it is midnight, and time passes, and I sleep alone.
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