Sappho Quotes about Earth

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From all the offspring of the earth and heaven love is the most precious.

Love, Heaven, Earth

Sappho (1965). “Lyrics in the Original Greek”, Garden City, N.Y. : Anchor books [1965]

Now the Earth with many flowers puts on her spring embroidery

Spring, Flower, Earth

Sappho (1965). “Lyrics in the Original Greek”, Garden City, N.Y. : Anchor books [1965]

Some say an army of horsemen, or infantry, A fleet of ships is the fairest thing On the face of the black earth, but I say It's what one loves.

Army, Black, Earth

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

Dark, Earth, Thermopylae