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No honey for me, if it comes with a bee.
Sappho
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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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From all the offspring of the earth and heaven love is the most precious.
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I do not know what to do, my mind's in two.
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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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Raise high the roof-beam, carpenters. Like Ares comes the bridegroom, taller far than a tall man.
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Whatever one loves most is beautiful.
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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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All the while, believe me, I prayed our night would last twice as long.
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Experience shows us Wealth unchaperoned by Virtue is never an innocuous neighbor.
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Death is an evil the gods have so judged had it been good, they would die.
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Eros harrows my heart: wild gales sweeping desolate mountains, uprooting oaks.
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Without warning as a whirlwind swoops on an oak Love shakes my heart
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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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The Moon and Pleiades have set, / Midnight is nigh, / The time is passing, passing, yet / Alone I lie.
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Stand and face me, my love,and scatter the grace in your eyes.
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Mere air, these words, but delicious to hear.
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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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Now the Earth with many flowers puts on her spring embroidery
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I will let my body flow like water over the gentle cushions.
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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.
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