Sappho

Eros seizes and shakes my very soul like the wind on the mountain _x000D_ shaking ancient oaks.

When I look on you a moment, then I can speak no more, but my tongue falls silent, and at once a delicate flame courses beneath my skin, and with my eyes I see nothing, and my ears hum, and a wet sweat bathes me and a trembling seizes me all over.

Love is a cunning weaver of fantasies and fables.

Someone, I tell you, in another time will remember us

Beauty endures only for as long as it can be seen; goodness, beautiful today, will remain so tomorrow.

Death is an evil; the gods have so judged; had it been good, they would die.

The moon is setand the Pleiades; Middle ofthe night, time passes by,I lie alone.

Experience shows us Wealth unchaperoned by Virtue is never an innocuous neighbor.

I will let my body flow like water over the gentle cushions.

Love - bittersweet, irrepressible - loosens my limbs and I tremble.

The moon has set, and the Pleiades; it is midnight, and time passes, and I sleep alone.

I would not think to touch the sky with two arms

You may forget but_x000D_ let me tell you_x000D_ this: someone in_x000D_ some future time_x000D_ will think of us

Stand and face me, my love,and scatter the grace in your eyes.

Dancing up the full moon_x000D_ _x000D_ Round some fair new altar_x000D_ _x000D_ Trample the soft blossoms of fine grass.