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

Sappho

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
If you are squeamish Don’t prod the beach rubble.
SAPPHO

Nature Yourself
Love is a cunning weaver of fantasies and fables.
SAPPHO

Fantasy Love One Liner
I do not know what to do, my mind’s in two.
SAPPHO

Mindset Myself
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.
SAPPHO

Alone Bank Heaven Hope Lying Moon Myself
I will let my body flow like water over the gentle cushions.
SAPPHO

Body Cushion Flow Gentle
Death is an ill; ’tis thus the Gods decide: / For had death been a boon, the Gods had died.
SAPPHO

Death Decision God Sick
There is no place for grief in a house which serves the Muse.
SAPPHO

Grief Home Place Serve
I know not what to do, my mind is divided.
SAPPHO

Division Known Mindset Myself
When anger spreads through the breath, guard thy tongue from barking idly.
SAPPHO

Anand Thakur
From all the offspring of the earth and heaven love is the most precious.
SAPPHO

Earth Heaven Precious
What cannot be said will be wept.
SAPPHO

Anand Thakur
Hesperus bringing together All that the morning star scattered.
SAPPHO

Bring Morning Togetherness
No honey for me, if it comes with a bee.
SAPPHO

Anand Thakur
The Moon and Pleiades have set, Midnight is nigh, The time is passing, passing, yet Alone I lie.
SAPPHO

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

Anand Thakur

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

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