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If you are squeamish Don’t prod the beach rubble.

Sappho

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
Love – bittersweet, irrepressible – loosens my limbs and I tremble.
SAPPHO

Love Myself Tremble
I would not think to touch the sky with two arms
SAPPHO

Anand Thakur
Death is an evil; the gods have so judged; had it been good, they would die.
SAPPHO

Death Evil God Judgement
Now the Earth with many flowers puts on her spring embroidery.
SAPPHO

Earth Embroidery Flower Spring
Mere air, these words, but delicious to hear.
SAPPHO

Delicious Hear Word
I will let my body flow like water over the gentle cushions.
SAPPHO

Body Cushion Flow Gentle
All the while, believe me, I prayed our night would last twice as long.
SAPPHO

Anand Thakur
Someone, I tell you, in another time will remember us.
SAPPHO

Anand Thakur
When anger spreads through the breath, guard thy tongue from barking idly.
SAPPHO

Anand Thakur
Dancing up the full moon Round some fair new altar Trample the soft blossoms of fine grass.
SAPPHO

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

Division Known Mindset Myself
Raise high the roof-beam, carpenters. Like Ares comes the bridegroom, taller far than a tall man.
SAPPHO

High Man Marriage Tall
If you are squeamish Don’t prod the beach rubble.
SAPPHO

Nature Yourself
He who is fair to look upon is good, and he who is good will soon be fair also.
SAPPHO

Fair Goodness Himself
Hesperus bringing together All that the morning star scattered.
SAPPHO

Bring Morning Togetherness

If you are squeamish Don’t prod the beach rubble.

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