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From all the offspring of the earth and heaven love is the most precious.
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Although they are
Only breath, words
which I command
are immortal.
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I took my lyre and said: come now, my heavenly tortoise shell: become a speaking instrument.
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Hesperus, you herd homeward whatever Dawn's light dispersed: you herd sheep—herd goats — herd children home to their mothers.
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Sweet mother, I cannot ply the loom, vanquished by desire for a youth through the work of soft Aphrodite.
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Someone, I tell you
will remember us.
We are oppressed by
fears of oblivion.
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Stars near the lovely moon cover their own bright faces when she is roundest and lights up the earth with her silver.
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Equal to the gods seems to me that man who sits facing you and hears you nearby sweetly speaking and
softly laughing.
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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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As an apple reddens on the high bough; high atop the highest bough the apple pickers passed it by— no, not passed it by, but they could not reach it.
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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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Love — bittersweet, irrepressible —
loosens my limbs and I tremble.
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I loved you once long ago, Athis... you seemed to me a small, ungainly child.
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You may forget but
Let me tell you
this: someone in
some future time
will think of us.
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Love shook my heart/ Like the wind on the mountain/ Troubling the oak-trees
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Stand and face me, my love, and scatter the grace in your eyes.
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Deathless Aphrodite on your rich-wrought throne.
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In gold sandals
dawn like a thief
fell upon me.
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The nightingale is the harbinger of Spring and her voice is desire.
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With his venom irresistible and bittersweet that loosener of limbs, Love reptile-like strikes me down
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Art thou the topmost apple
The gatherers could not reach,
Reddening on the bough?
Shall I not take thee?
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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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The stars about the lovely moon hide their shining forms when it lights up the earth at its fullest.
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The moon has set, and the Pleiades; it is midnight, and time passes, and I sleep alone.
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Now the Earth with many flowers puts on her spring embroidery
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Sappho
Born:
640 BC
Died:
570 BC
(aged 70)
Bio:
Sappho was a Greek lyric poet from the island of Lesbos. She was born sometime between 630 and 612 BCE, and it is said that she died around 570 BCE, but little is known for certain about her life.
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If not, winter
The Poetry of Sappho
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bough
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apple
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