The Moon and Pleiades have set, Midnight is nigh, The time is passing, passing, yet Alone I lie.
SAPPHOIf you are squeamish Don’t prod the beach rubble.
More Sappho Quotes
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Death is an evil; the gods have so judged; had it been good, they would die.
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What cannot be said will be wept.
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I would not think to touch the sky with two arms
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If you are squeamish Don’t prod the beach rubble.
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Love, like a mountain-wind upon an oak, falling upon me, shakes me leaf and bough.
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Love shook my heart/ Like the wind on the mountain/ Troubling the oak-trees.
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Eros seizes and shakes my very soul like the wind on the mountain shaking ancient oaks.
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There is no place for grief in a house which serves the Muse.
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The moon is setand the Pleiades; Middle ofthe night, time passes by,I lie alone.
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Eros harrows my heart: wild gales sweeping desolate mountains, uprooting oaks.
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For some the fairest thing on the dark earth is Thermopylae, And the Spartan phalanx lowering lances to die.
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When anger spreads through the breath, guard thy tongue from barking idly.
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Hesperus bringing together All that the morning star scattered.
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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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You may forget but let me tell you this: someone in some future time will think of us.
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