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Sappho

The moon is setand the Pleiades; Middle ofthe night, time passes by,I lie alone.
SAPPHO

Alone Moon Night Pass Time
When anger spreads through the breath, guard thy tongue from barking idly.
SAPPHO

Anand Thakur
Love shook my heart/ Like the wind on the mountain/ Troubling the oak-trees.
SAPPHO

Heart Love Shook Tree Trouble
Builders, raise the ceiling high, Raise the dome into the sky, Hear the wedding song! For the happy groom is near, Tall as Mars, and statelier, Hear the wedding song!
SAPPHO

Build Marriage Raise Sky
The Moon and Pleiades have set, Midnight is nigh, The time is passing, passing, yet Alone I lie.
SAPPHO

Anand Thakur
Without warning as a whirlwind swoops on an oak Love shakes my heart.
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Heart Love Shake Warning
Eros harrows my heart: wild gales sweeping desolate mountains, uprooting oaks.
SAPPHO

Heart Mountain Myself Root Wild
Raise high the roof-beam, carpenters. Like Ares comes the bridegroom, taller far than a tall man.
SAPPHO

High Man Marriage Tall
Death is an evil; the gods have so judged; had it been good, they would die.
SAPPHO

Death Evil God Judgement
The evening star Is the most beautiful of all stars.
SAPPHO

Beautiful Evening Stars
What cannot be said will be wept.
SAPPHO

Anand Thakur
How love the limb-loosener sweeps me away.
SAPPHO

Away Love Myself
From all the offspring of the earth and heaven love is the most precious.
SAPPHO

Earth Heaven Precious
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
If you are squeamish Don’t prod the beach rubble.
SAPPHO

Nature Yourself
Now the Earth with many flowers puts on her spring embroidery.
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Earth Embroidery Flower Spring

What cannot be said will be wept.

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