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Love is a cunning weaver of fantasies and fables.

Sappho

Eros seizes and shakes my very soul like the wind on the mountain shaking ancient oaks.
SAPPHO

Ancient Mountain Shake Soul
Without warning as a whirlwind swoops on an oak Love shakes my heart.
SAPPHO

Heart Love Shake Warning
There is no place for grief in a house which serves the Muse.
SAPPHO

Grief Home Place Serve
The evening star Is the most beautiful of all stars.
SAPPHO

Beautiful Evening Stars
The Moon and Pleiades have set, Midnight is nigh, The time is passing, passing, yet Alone I lie.
SAPPHO

Anand Thakur
I would not think to touch the sky with two arms
SAPPHO

Anand Thakur
Dancing up the full moon Round some fair new altar Trample the soft blossoms of fine grass.
SAPPHO

Anand Thakur
Whatever one loves most is beautiful.
SAPPHO

Anand Thakur
Now the Earth with many flowers puts on her spring embroidery.
SAPPHO

Earth Embroidery Flower Spring
May I write words more naked than flesh, stronger than bone, more resilient than sinew, sensitive than nerve.
SAPPHO

Naked Nerve Resilience Sensitive Word Writing
With his venom irresistible and bittersweet that loosener of limbs, Love reptile-like strikes me down
SAPPHO

Myself Strike Venom
Stand and face me, my love,and scatter the grace in your eyes.
SAPPHO

Eyes Face Grace Love Stand
Although only breath, words which I command are immortal.
SAPPHO

Breathe Command Immortal Myself Word
Death must be an evil and the gods agree; for why else would they live for ever?
SAPPHO

Agreement Death Evil God
I know not what to do, my mind is divided.
SAPPHO

Division Known Mindset Myself
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

Love is a cunning weaver of fantasies and fables.

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