When anger spreads through the breath, guard thy tongue from barking idly.
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Anand Thakur
When anger spreads through the breath, guard thy tongue from barking idly.
SAPPHOBeauty endures only for as long as it can be seen; goodness, beautiful today, will remain so tomorrow.
SAPPHODeath must be an evil and the gods agree; for why else would they live for ever?
SAPPHOHow love the limb-loosener sweeps me away.
SAPPHOWhat cannot be said will be wept.
SAPPHOOnce again love drives me on, that loosener of limbs, bittersweet creature against which nothing can be done.
SAPPHOAll the while, believe me, I prayed our night would last twice as long.
SAPPHOLove – bittersweet, irrepressible – loosens my limbs and I tremble.
SAPPHONo honey for me, if it comes with a bee.
SAPPHOBuilders, raise the ceiling high, Raise the dome into the sky, Hear the wedding song! For the happy groom is near, Tall as Mars, and statelier, Hear the wedding song!
SAPPHOSomeone, I tell you, in another time will remember us.
SAPPHOThe 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.
SAPPHOI do not know what to do, my mind’s in two.
SAPPHOAlthough only breath, words which I command are immortal.
SAPPHOHesperus bringing together All that the morning star scattered.
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