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• Mere air, these words, but delicious to hear.

  Sappho

  Air, Mere, Delicious

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• I know not what to do, my mind is divided

  Sappho

  Mind, Divided, Knows

  Sappho (1887). “Sappho: Memoir, Text, Selected Renderings and a Literal Translation”

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• I do not know what to do, my mind's in two.

  Sappho

  Two, Mind, Knows

  Sappho (1966). “The love songs of Sappho”

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• The moon has set, and the Pleiades; it is midnight, and time passes, and I sleep alone.

  Sappho

  Sleep, Moon, Midnight

  Fragment 94

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• The evening star Is the most beautiful of all stars

  Sappho

  Beautiful, Stars, Evening

  Sappho, Mary Barnard (1958). “Sappho”, p.26, Univ of California Press

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• I would not think to touch the sky with two arms

  Sappho

  Thinking, Sky, Two

  Sappho, Henry Thornton Wharton (1895). “Sappho: Memoir, Text, Selected Renderings, and a Literal Translation”

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• With his venom irresistible and bittersweet that loosener of limbs, Love reptile-like strikes me down

  Sappho

  Love, Reptiles, Bittersweet

  Sappho, Mary Barnard (1958). “Sappho”, p.53, Univ of California Press

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• Experience shows us Wealth unchaperoned by Virtue is never an innocuous neighbor.

  Sappho

  Responsibility, Wealth, Virtue

  Sappho, Mary Barnard (1958). “Sappho”, p.85, Univ of California Press

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• Death is an ill; 'tis thus the Gods decide: / For had death been a boon, the Gods had died.

  Sappho

  Death, Boon, Ill

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• He who is fair to look upon is good, and he who is good will soon be fair also.

  Sappho

  Beauty, Looks, Goodness

  Sappho (1925). “The Poems of Sappho: With Historical & Critical Notes, Translations, and a Bibliography”

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• Dancing up the full moon
  Round some fair new altar
  Trample the soft blossoms of fine grass.

  Sappho

  Dance, Moon, Dancing

  Sappho “One Hundred Poems”, Lulu.com

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• In gold sandals / dawn like a thief / fell upon me.

  Sappho

  Gold, Dawn, Thieves

  Sappho (1965). “Lyrics in the Original Greek”, Garden City, N.Y. : Anchor books [1965]

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• Death must be an evil and the gods agree; for why else would they live for ever?

  Sappho

  Evil, Immortality, Agree

  Sappho (1988). “Poems & Fragments”, Lyle Stuart

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• Without warning as a whirlwind swoops on an oak Love shakes my heart

  Sappho

  Love, Heart, Warning

  Sappho, Mary Barnard (1958). “Sappho”, p.46, Univ of California Press

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• To me the Muses truly gave / An envied and a happy lot: / E'en when I lie within the grave, / I cannot, shall not, be forgot.

  Sappho

  Lying, Muse, Poet

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• How love the limb-loosener sweeps me away

  Sappho

  Limbs

  Sappho, Erinna, Ovid (1925). “The songs of Sappho: including the recent Egyptian discoveries, the poems of Erinna, Greek poems about Sappho, Ovid's epistle of Sappho to Phaon translated into rimed verse”

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• I took my lyre and said: come now, my heavenly tortoise shell: become a speaking instrument.

  Sappho

  Music, Tortoises, Shells

  Sappho, Mary Barnard (1958). “Sappho”, p.10, Univ of California Press

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• Eros harrows my heart: wild gales sweeping desolate mountains, uprooting oaks.

  Sappho

  Heart, Mountain, Uprooting

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• If you are squeamish
  Don't prod the
  beach rubble.

  Sappho

  Beach, Rubble, Ifs

  Sappho, Mary Barnard (1958). “Sappho”, p.84, Univ of California Press

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• Hesperus bringing together All that the morning star scattered.

  Sappho

  Morning, Stars, Together

  Sappho “One Hundred Poems”, Lulu.com

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• The Moon and Pleiades have set, / Midnight is nigh, / The time is passing, passing, yet / Alone I lie.

  Sappho

  Lying, Moon, Night

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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.

  Sappho

  Lying, Moon, Sky

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• For some the fairest thing on the dark earth is Thermopylae,
  And the Spartan phalanx lowering lances to die.

  Sappho

  Dark, Earth, Thermopylae

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• Raise high the roof-beam, carpenters. Like Ares comes the bridegroom, taller far than a tall man.

  Sappho

  Men, Beam, Roof

  "Sappho: Memoir, Text, Selected Renderings, and a Literal Translation".

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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!

  Sappho

  Song, Sky, Mars

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