I took my lyre and said: come now, my heavenly tortoise shell: become a speaking instrument.
SAPPHO
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I do not know what to do, my mind’s in two.
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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 would not think to touch the sky with two arms
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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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Beauty endures only for as long as it can be seen; goodness, beautiful today, will remain so tomorrow.
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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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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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Experience shows us Wealth unchaperoned by Virtue is never an innocuous neighbor.
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If you are squeamish Don’t prod the beach rubble.
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When anger spreads through the breath, guard thy tongue from barking idly.
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There is no place for grief in a house which serves the Muse.
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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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The evening star Is the most beautiful of all stars.
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