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Now the Earth with many flowers puts on her spring embroidery
Sappho
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No honey for me, if it comes with a bee.
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Without warning as a whirlwind swoops on an oak Love shakes my heart
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Although only breath, words which I command are immortal.
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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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He who is fair to look upon is good, and he who is good will soon be fair also.
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Eros harrows my heart: wild gales sweeping desolate mountains, uprooting oaks.
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Dancing up the full moon Round some fair new altar Trample the soft blossoms of fine grass.
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May I write words more naked than flesh, stronger than bone, more resilient than sinew, sensitive than nerve.
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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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Mere air, these words, but delicious to hear.
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Death is an evil the gods have so judged had it been good, they would die.
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All the while, believe me, I prayed our night would last twice as long.
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From all the offspring of the earth and heaven love is the most precious.
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Experience shows us Wealth unchaperoned by Virtue is never an innocuous neighbor.
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Stand and face me, my love,and scatter the grace in your eyes.
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