The evening star Is the most beautiful of all stars.
SAPPHONow the Earth with many flowers puts on her spring embroidery.
More Sappho Quotes
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All the while, believe me, I prayed our night would last twice as long.
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Dancing up the full moon Round some fair new altar Trample the soft blossoms of fine grass.
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Love shook my heart/ Like the wind on the mountain/ Troubling the oak-trees.
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How love the limb-loosener sweeps me away.
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In gold sandals / dawn like a thief / fell upon me.
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If you are squeamish Don’t prod the beach rubble.
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You may forget but let me tell you this: someone in some future time will think of us.
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Stand and face me, my love,and scatter the grace in your eyes.
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No honey for me, if it comes with a bee.
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What cannot be said will be wept.
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Experience shows us Wealth unchaperoned by Virtue is never an innocuous neighbor.
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From all the offspring of the earth and heaven love is the most precious.
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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.
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For some the fairest thing on the dark earth is Thermopylae, And the Spartan phalanx lowering lances to die.
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He who is fair to look upon is good, and he who is good will soon be fair also.
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