From all the offspring of the earth and heaven love is the most precious.
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Anand Thakur
From all the offspring of the earth and heaven love is the most precious.
SAPPHOWithout warning as a whirlwind swoops on an oak Love shakes my heart.
SAPPHOHow love the limb-loosener sweeps me away.
SAPPHOLove shook my heart/ Like the wind on the mountain/ Troubling the oak-trees.
SAPPHOI would not think to touch the sky with two arms
SAPPHOWhatever one loves most is beautiful.
SAPPHOFor some the fairest thing on the dark earth is Thermopylae, And the Spartan phalanx lowering lances to die.
SAPPHOI took my lyre and said: come now, my heavenly tortoise shell: become a speaking instrument.
SAPPHOLove is a cunning weaver of fantasies and fables.
SAPPHOLove – bittersweet, irrepressible – loosens my limbs and I tremble.
SAPPHOI do not know what to do, my mind’s in two.
SAPPHOSomeone, I tell you, in another time will remember us.
SAPPHONow the Earth with many flowers puts on her spring embroidery.
SAPPHOEros seizes and shakes my very soul like the wind on the mountain shaking ancient oaks.
SAPPHOBeauty endures only for as long as it can be seen; goodness, beautiful today, will remain so tomorrow.
SAPPHONo honey for me, if it comes with a bee.
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