For some the fairest thing on the dark earth is Thermopylae, And the Spartan phalanx lowering lances to die.
SAPPHOFor some the fairest thing on the dark earth is Thermopylae, And the Spartan phalanx lowering lances to die.
SAPPHOIn gold sandals / dawn like a thief / fell upon me.
SAPPHOMere air, these words, but delicious to hear.
SAPPHOI do not know what to do, my mind’s in two.
SAPPHONo honey for me, if it comes with a bee.
SAPPHOYou may forget but let me tell you this: someone in some future time will think of us.
SAPPHONow the Earth with many flowers puts on her spring embroidery.
SAPPHOMay I write words more naked than flesh, stronger than bone, more resilient than sinew, sensitive than nerve.
SAPPHOLove – bittersweet, irrepressible – loosens my limbs and I tremble.
SAPPHOExperience shows us Wealth unchaperoned by Virtue is never an innocuous neighbor.
SAPPHOWith his venom irresistible and bittersweet that loosener of limbs, Love reptile-like strikes me down
SAPPHOHesperus bringing together All that the morning star scattered.
SAPPHOThe moon has set, and the Pleiades; it is midnight, and time passes, and I sleep alone.
SAPPHOHe who is fair to look upon is good, and he who is good will soon be fair also.
SAPPHOEros seizes and shakes my very soul like the wind on the mountain shaking ancient oaks.
SAPPHOLove is a cunning weaver of fantasies and fables.
SAPPHO