Quotes from Sappho

I cannot imagine in the future any girl who looks on the light of the sun who will have your skill and wisdom.

When anger is flooding through your chest best to quiet your reckless barking tongue

bind your hair with lovely crowns, tying stems of anise together in your soft hands. For the blesses Graces prefer to look on one who wears flowers and turn away from those without a crown.

Often those I treat well are just the ones vainly You I want to suffer In me I know it

You came and I went mad about you. You cooled my mind burning with longing.

Delicate girl once again I leaped and wandered

What farm girl dolled up in a farm dress captivates your wits not knowing how to pull her rags down to her ankles?

There is a boy, and lust Has crushed my spirit - just As gentle Aphrodite planned. Since I have cast my lot, please, golden-crowned Aphrodite, let me win this round!

You will flitter invisible among the indistinct dead in Hell's palace darting fitfully

I would rather see her lovely step and the motion of light on her face than chariots of Lydians or ranks of footsoldiers in arms.

reminding me now of Anaktoria gone. I would rather see her lovely step and the radiant sparkle of her face than all the war chariots in Lydia

O Kypris and the Nereids, I pray you to sail my brother home unharmed and let him accomplish all that is in his heart and be released from former error and carry joy to his friends and bane to enemies and let no one bring us more grief. Let him honor me his sister. But black torment suffering for early days, citizens accused. Was it over millet seed? Pure Kypris, put aside old anger and free him from evil sorrow

Eros loosener of limbs once again trembles me, a sweetbitter beast irrepressibly creeping in

Kritan women once danced supplely around a beautiful altar with light feet, crushing the soft flowers of grass.

A handsome man is good to look at, but a good man will be handsome as well.

By giving good fame your beauty and nobility to such friends you sicken me with pain Blame you? Swollen Have your fill of them For my thinking it is poorly done and all night I understand baseness Other minds the blessed

slender Aphrodite has overcome me with longing for a girl

I groan much but to what end? Humans simply Cannot be ageless like divinities.

I hoped for love When I look at you face to face not even Hermioni seems to be your equal. I compare you to blond Helen among mortal women. Know that you can free me from every care, and stay awake all night long on dewy riverbanks

The moon has set and the Pleiades. Middle of the night, time spins away and I lie alone.

I'm waiting to offer you a good thing in sacrifices but going there we know is labor later toward Kydro say I am coming

Blessed one May he be released from his past wrongs with luck now in harbor Kypris, may she feel your sharp needles and may she Doriha not go on crowing how he came back a second time to his desired love.

but a kind of yearning has hold of me—to die and to look upon the dewy lotus banks of Acheron

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