"In gold sandals / dawn like a thief / fell upon me."
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Sappho quotes (page 3 of 3)
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"I would not think to touch the sky with two arms"
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"Raise high the roof-beam, carpenters. Like Ares comes the bridegroom, taller far than a tall man."
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"If you are squeamish Don't prod the beach rubble."
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"For some the fairest thing on the dark earth is Thermopylae, And the Spartan phalanx lowering lances to die."
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"Builders, raise the ceiling high, Raise the dome into the sky, Hear the wedding song! For the happy groom is near, Tall as Mars, and statelier, Hear the wedding song!"
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"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."
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"I do not know what to do, my mind's in two."
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"I will let my body flow like water over the gentle cushions."
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"The Moon and Pleiades have set, / Midnight is nigh, / The time is passing, passing, yet / Alone I lie."
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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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"The moon is setand the Pleiades; Middle ofthe night, time passes by,I lie alone."
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