How love the limb-loosener sweeps me away.
SAPPHOWould 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.
More Sappho Quotes
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I know not what to do, my mind is divided.
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Hesperus bringing together All that the morning star scattered.
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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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Love is a cunning weaver of fantasies and fables.
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The moon has set In a bank of jet That fringes the Western sky, The pleiads seven Have sunk from heaven And the midnight hurries by; My hopes are flown And, alas! alone On my weary couch I lie.
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Experience shows us Wealth unchaperoned by Virtue is never an innocuous neighbor.
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Now the Earth with many flowers puts on her spring embroidery.
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Eros harrows my heart: wild gales sweeping desolate mountains, uprooting oaks.
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Death must be an evil and the gods agree; for why else would they live for ever?
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I will let my body flow like water over the gentle cushions.
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Death is an ill; ’tis thus the Gods decide: / For had death been a boon, the Gods had died.
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In gold sandals / dawn like a thief / fell upon me.
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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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The moon is setand the Pleiades; Middle ofthe night, time passes by,I lie alone.
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I took my lyre and said: come now, my heavenly tortoise shell: become a speaking instrument.
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Love – bittersweet, irrepressible – loosens my limbs and I tremble.
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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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Whatever one loves most is beautiful.
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When anger spreads through the breath, guard thy tongue from barking idly.
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Mere air, these words, but delicious to hear.
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What cannot be said will be wept.
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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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Once again love drives me on, that loosener of limbs, bittersweet creature against which nothing can be done.
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Love, like a mountain-wind upon an oak, falling upon me, shakes me leaf and bough.
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Dancing up the full moon Round some fair new altar Trample the soft blossoms of fine grass.
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