He who is fair to look upon is good, and he who is good will soon be fair also.
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Anand Thakur
He who is fair to look upon is good, and he who is good will soon be fair also.
SAPPHOThe Moon and Pleiades have set, Midnight is nigh, The time is passing, passing, yet Alone I lie.
SAPPHOBeauty endures only for as long as it can be seen; goodness, beautiful today, will remain so tomorrow.
SAPPHONow the Earth with many flowers puts on her spring embroidery.
SAPPHOAlthough only breath, words which I command are immortal.
SAPPHOFrom all the offspring of the earth and heaven love is the most precious.
SAPPHOExperience shows us Wealth unchaperoned by Virtue is never an innocuous neighbor.
SAPPHORaise high the roof-beam, carpenters. Like Ares comes the bridegroom, taller far than a tall man.
SAPPHOLove, like a mountain-wind upon an oak, falling upon me, shakes me leaf and bough.
SAPPHOFor some the fairest thing on the dark earth is Thermopylae, And the Spartan phalanx lowering lances to die.
SAPPHOEros seizes and shakes my very soul like the wind on the mountain shaking ancient oaks.
SAPPHONo honey for me, if it comes with a bee.
SAPPHOWithout warning as a whirlwind swoops on an oak Love shakes my heart.
SAPPHOLove – bittersweet, irrepressible – loosens my limbs and I tremble.
SAPPHOMay I write words more naked than flesh, stronger than bone, more resilient than sinew, sensitive than nerve.
SAPPHOOnce again love drives me on, that loosener of limbs, bittersweet creature against which nothing can be done.
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