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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 — bittersweet, irrepressible —
loosens my limbs and I tremble.
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He who is fair to look upon is good, and he who is good will soon be fair also.
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Someone, I tell you
will remember us.
We are oppressed by
fears of oblivion.
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In gold sandals
dawn like a thief
fell upon me.
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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
Most used words:
herd
bough
love
apple
earth
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