I know not what to do, my mind is divided.
SAPPHO
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What cannot be said will be wept.
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I know not what to do, my mind is divided.
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Beauty endures only for as long as it can be seen; goodness, beautiful today, will remain so tomorrow.
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I took my lyre and said: come now, my heavenly tortoise shell: become a speaking instrument.
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In gold sandals / dawn like a thief / fell upon me.
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How love the limb-loosener sweeps me away.
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Raise high the roof-beam, carpenters. Like Ares comes the bridegroom, taller far than a tall man.
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Mere air, these words, but delicious to hear.
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Now the Earth with many flowers puts on her spring embroidery.
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Death is an evil; the gods have so judged; had it been good, they would die.
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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.
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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.
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The moon has set, and the Pleiades; it is midnight, and time passes, and I sleep alone.
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Without warning as a whirlwind swoops on an oak Love shakes my heart.
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Someone, I tell you, in another time will remember us.
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Death is an ill; ’tis thus the Gods decide: / For had death been a boon, the Gods had died.
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From all the offspring of the earth and heaven love is the most precious.
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