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Now the Earth with many flowers puts on her spring embroidery
Sappho
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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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Stand and face me, my love,and scatter the grace in your eyes.
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Love - bittersweet, irrepressible - loosens my limbs and I tremble.
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Experience shows us Wealth unchaperoned by Virtue is never an innocuous neighbor.
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The moon has set, and the Pleiades it is midnight, and time passes, and I sleep alone.
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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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He who is fair to look upon is good, and he who is good will soon be fair also.
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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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I will let my body flow like water over the gentle cushions.
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Death is an ill 'tis thus the Gods decide: / For had death been a boon, the Gods had died.
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All the while, believe me, I prayed our night would last twice as long.
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