Sappho Quotes
The evening starIs the mostbeautifulof all stars
]sing to usthe one with violets in her lap]mostly]goes astray
...gracious your form and your eyes as honey : desire is poured upon your lovely face Aphrodite has ...
Show MoreOnce again Love, that loosener of limbs,bittersweet and inescapable, crawling thing,seizes me.
The touched heart madly stirs,your laughter is water hurrying over pebbles - every gesture is a proc...
Show MoreEros, again now, the loosener of limbs troubles me,Bittersweet, sly, uncontrollable creature….
Would Jove appoint some flower to reign, in matchless beauty on the plain, the Rose (mankind will al...
Show MoreThere is no place for grief in a house which serves the Muse.
The angel of spring the mellow-throated nightingale.
Wealth without virtue is no harmless neighbor.
]Sardisoften turning her thoughts here]you like a goddessand in your song most of all she rejoiced.B...
Show MoreEvening you gather backall that dazzling dawn has put asunder:you gather a lamb, gather a kid,gather...
Show Moreyet if you had a desire for good or beautiful thingsand your tongue were not concocting some evil to...
Show Moretheir heart grew coldthey let their wings down
In fact she herself once blamed meKyprogeneiabecause I prayed this word:I want.
Someone will remember us I sayEven in another time
We shall enjoy itAs for him who findsfault, may sillinessand sorrow take him!
