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

Sappho

I know not what to do, my mind is divided.
SAPPHO

Division Known Mindset Myself
I will let my body flow like water over the gentle cushions.
SAPPHO

Body Cushion Flow Gentle
The moon is setand the Pleiades; Middle ofthe night, time passes by,I lie alone.
SAPPHO

Alone Moon Night Pass Time
What cannot be said will be wept.
SAPPHO

Anand Thakur
When anger spreads through the breath, guard thy tongue from barking idly.
SAPPHO

Anand Thakur
Someone, I tell you, in another time will remember us.
SAPPHO

Anand Thakur
How love the limb-loosener sweeps me away.
SAPPHO

Away Love 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
Stand and face me, my love,and scatter the grace in your eyes.
SAPPHO

Eyes Face Grace Love Stand
Builders, raise the ceiling high, Raise the dome into the sky, Hear the wedding song! For the happy groom is near, Tall as Mars, and statelier, Hear the wedding song!
SAPPHO

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

Ancient Mountain Shake Soul
Although only breath, words which I command are immortal.
SAPPHO

Breathe Command Immortal Myself Word
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.
SAPPHO

Black Earth Face Infant Love Oneself
From all the offspring of the earth and heaven love is the most precious.
SAPPHO

Earth Heaven Precious
In gold sandals / dawn like a thief / fell upon me.
SAPPHO

Anand Thakur
Eros harrows my heart: wild gales sweeping desolate mountains, uprooting oaks.
SAPPHO

Heart Mountain Myself Root Wild

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

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