Death is an ill; ’tis thus the Gods decide: / For had death been a boon, the Gods had died.
SAPPHO
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Love is a cunning weaver of fantasies and fables.
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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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Love shook my heart/ Like the wind on the mountain/ Troubling the oak-trees.
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The evening star Is the most beautiful of all stars.
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Experience shows us Wealth unchaperoned by Virtue is never an innocuous neighbor.
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Stand and face me, my love,and scatter the grace in your eyes.
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May I write words more naked than flesh, stronger than bone, more resilient than sinew, sensitive than nerve.
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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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No honey for me, if it comes with a bee.
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Death is an evil; the gods have so judged; had it been good, they would die.
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I took my lyre and said: come now, my heavenly tortoise shell: become a speaking instrument.
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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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Dancing up the full moon Round some fair new altar Trample the soft blossoms of fine grass.
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Death must be an evil and the gods agree; for why else would they live for ever?
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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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Love is a cunning weaver of fantasies and fables.
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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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