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Love — bittersweet, irrepressible —
loosens my limbs and I tremble.
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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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Some say an army of cavalry or of infantry or a fleet of ships is the most beautiful thing on the black earth. But I say it is whatever one loves.
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With his venom irresistible and bittersweet that loosener of limbs, Love reptile-like strikes me down
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Without warning as a whirlwind swoops on an oak Love shakes my heart
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From all the offspring of the earth and heaven love is the most precious.
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Good authors, too, who once knew better words Now only use four-letter words Writing prose — Anything goes.
Cole Porter
Sappho
Born:
640 BC
Died:
570 BC
(aged 70)
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