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I would not think to touch the sky with two arms

Sappho

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

Anand Thakur
Beauty endures only for as long as it can be seen; goodness, beautiful today, will remain so tomorrow.
SAPPHO

Beautiful Endurance Goodness Willing
Would Jove appoint some flower to reign, in matchless beauty on the plain, the Rose (mankind will all agree). The Rose the queen of flowers should be.
SAPPHO

Anand Thakur
The evening star Is the most beautiful of all stars.
SAPPHO

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

Anand Thakur
I will let my body flow like water over the gentle cushions.
SAPPHO

Body Cushion Flow Gentle
Love – bittersweet, irrepressible – loosens my limbs and I tremble.
SAPPHO

Love Myself Tremble
There is no place for grief in a house which serves the Muse.
SAPPHO

Grief Home Place Serve
The Moon and Pleiades have set, Midnight is nigh, The time is passing, passing, yet Alone I lie.
SAPPHO

Anand Thakur
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
What cannot be said will be wept.
SAPPHO

Anand Thakur
Death must be an evil and the gods agree; for why else would they live for ever?
SAPPHO

Agreement Death Evil God
From all the offspring of the earth and heaven love is the most precious.
SAPPHO

Earth Heaven Precious
Love, like a mountain-wind upon an oak, falling upon me, shakes me leaf and bough.
SAPPHO

Fall Love Mountain Nature
Although only breath, words which I command are immortal.
SAPPHO

Breathe Command Immortal Myself Word
I would not think to touch the sky with two arms
SAPPHO

Anand Thakur

I would not think to touch the sky with two arms

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