Sappho Quotes - Page 2

The evening star Is the most beautiful of all stars

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

When anger spreads through the breath, guard thy tongue from barking idly.

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.

Death is an ill; 'tis thus the Gods decide: / For had death been a boon, the Gods had died.

He who is fair to look upon is good, and he who is good will soon be fair also.

Dancing up the full moon Round some fair new altar Trample the soft blossoms of fine grass.

With his venom irresistible and bittersweet that loosener of limbs, Love reptile-like strikes me down

I would not think to touch the sky with two arms

I know not what to do, my mind is divided

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

Love, like a mountain-wind upon an oak, falling upon me, shakes me leaf and bough.

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

Eros harrows my heart: wild gales sweeping desolate mountains, uprooting oaks.

How love the limb-loosener sweeps me away

I took my lyre and said: come now, my heavenly tortoise shell: become a speaking instrument.

Death must be an evil and the gods agree; for why else would they live for ever?

If you are squeamish Don't prod the beach rubble.

In gold sandals / dawn like a thief / fell upon me.

Hesperus bringing together All that the morning star scattered.

For some the fairest thing on the dark earth is Thermopylae, And the Spartan phalanx lowering lances to die.

Raise high the roof-beam, carpenters. Like Ares comes the bridegroom, taller far than a tall man.

The moon has set In a bank of jet That fringes the Western sky, The pleiads seven Have sunk from heaven And the midnight hurries by; My hopes are flown And, alas! alone On my weary couch I lie.

The Moon and Pleiades have set, / Midnight is nigh, / The time is passing, passing, yet / Alone I lie.

Builders, raise the ceiling high, Raise the dome into the sky, Hear the wedding song! For the happy groom is near, Tall as Mars, and statelier, Hear the wedding song!