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No honey for me, if it comes with a bee.

Sappho

I know not what to do, my mind is divided.
SAPPHO

Division Known Mindset Myself
Experience shows us Wealth unchaperoned by Virtue is never an innocuous neighbor.
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Experience Neighbor Virtue
The evening star Is the most beautiful of all stars.
SAPPHO

Beautiful Evening Stars
Stand and face me, my love,and scatter the grace in your eyes.
SAPPHO

Eyes Face Grace Love Stand
Beauty endures only for as long as it can be seen; goodness, beautiful today, will remain so tomorrow.
SAPPHO

Beautiful Endurance Goodness Willing
Someone, I tell you, in another time will remember us.
SAPPHO

Anand Thakur
For some the fairest thing on the dark earth is Thermopylae, And the Spartan phalanx lowering lances to die.
SAPPHO

Anand Thakur
Love, like a mountain-wind upon an oak, falling upon me, shakes me leaf and bough.
SAPPHO

Fall Love Mountain Nature
Love shook my heart/ Like the wind on the mountain/ Troubling the oak-trees.
SAPPHO

Heart Love Shook Tree Trouble
I will let my body flow like water over the gentle cushions.
SAPPHO

Body Cushion Flow Gentle
Death must be an evil and the gods agree; for why else would they live for ever?
SAPPHO

Agreement Death Evil God
I took my lyre and said: come now, my heavenly tortoise shell: become a speaking instrument.
SAPPHO

Heaven Instrument Myself Talk
Some say an army of horsemen, or infantry, A fleet of ships is the fairest thing On the face of the black earth, but I say It’s what one loves.
SAPPHO

Black Earth Face Infant Love Oneself
Raise high the roof-beam, carpenters. Like Ares comes the bridegroom, taller far than a tall man.
SAPPHO

High Man Marriage Tall
Now the Earth with many flowers puts on her spring embroidery.
SAPPHO

Earth Embroidery Flower Spring
Once again love drives me on, that loosener of limbs, bittersweet creature against which nothing can be done.
SAPPHO

Anand Thakur

No honey for me, if it comes with a bee.

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