Mere air, these words, but delicious to hear.
SAPPHO
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All the while, believe me, I prayed our night would last twice as long.
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Mere air, these words, but delicious to hear.
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The evening star Is the most beautiful of all stars.
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Love, like a mountain-wind upon an oak, falling upon me, shakes me leaf and bough.
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The Moon and Pleiades have set, Midnight is nigh, The time is passing, passing, yet Alone I lie.
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May I write words more naked than flesh, stronger than bone, more resilient than sinew, sensitive than nerve.
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Eros harrows my heart: wild gales sweeping desolate mountains, uprooting oaks.
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Love – bittersweet, irrepressible – loosens my limbs and I tremble.
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I took my lyre and said: come now, my heavenly tortoise shell: become a speaking instrument.
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Whatever one loves most is beautiful.
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Stand and face me, my love,and scatter the grace in your eyes.
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I would not think to touch the sky with two arms
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From all the offspring of the earth and heaven love is the most precious.
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Experience shows us Wealth unchaperoned by Virtue is never an innocuous neighbor.
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Love shook my heart/ Like the wind on the mountain/ Troubling the oak-trees.
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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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