Eros seizes and shakes my very soul like the wind on the mountain shaking ancient oaks.
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Sappho49 quotes“Eros seizes and shakes my very soul like the wind on the mountain shaking ancient oaks.”
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SapphoSappho I do not know what to do, my mind’s in two.
SapphoSappho I will let my body flow like water over the gentle cushions.
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SapphoSappho Stand and face me, my love,and scatter the grace in your eyes.
SapphoSappho 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.
SapphoSappho Eros harrows my heart: wild gales sweeping desolate mountains, uprooting oaks.
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