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

Sappho

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.
SAPPHO

Alone Bank Heaven Hope Lying Moon Myself
I will let my body flow like water over the gentle cushions.
SAPPHO

Body Cushion Flow Gentle
Beauty endures only for as long as it can be seen; goodness, beautiful today, will remain so tomorrow.
SAPPHO

Beautiful Endurance Goodness Willing
I do not know what to do, my mind’s in two.
SAPPHO

Mindset Myself
Someone, I tell you, in another time will remember us.
SAPPHO

Anand Thakur
If you are squeamish Don’t prod the beach rubble.
SAPPHO

Nature Yourself
Love is a cunning weaver of fantasies and fables.
SAPPHO

Fantasy Love One Liner
There is no place for grief in a house which serves the Muse.
SAPPHO

Grief Home Place Serve
He who is fair to look upon is good, and he who is good will soon be fair also.
SAPPHO

Fair Goodness Himself
Experience shows us Wealth unchaperoned by Virtue is never an innocuous neighbor.
SAPPHO

Experience Neighbor Virtue
Death is an ill; ’tis thus the Gods decide: / For had death been a boon, the Gods had died.
SAPPHO

Death Decision God Sick
Death must be an evil and the gods agree; for why else would they live for ever?
SAPPHO

Agreement Death Evil God
When anger spreads through the breath, guard thy tongue from barking idly.
SAPPHO

Anand Thakur
Without warning as a whirlwind swoops on an oak Love shakes my heart.
SAPPHO

Heart Love Shake Warning
From all the offspring of the earth and heaven love is the most precious.
SAPPHO

Earth Heaven Precious
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.

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