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“Really, if you are my friend, choose a younger bed I can't bear to live with when I am the older”

Willis Barnstone Sappho

Author:Sappho

“Andromeda forgot but Psapfo I loved you In Kypros I am queen for you a power as sun blazes glory everywhere; even by the Aheron I am with you”

Willis Barnstone Sappho

Author:Sappho

“Those lovely gifts of the fragrant-breasted Muses, girls, seek them eagerly in thrilling song of the lyre. Old age has grasped my earlier delicate skin and my black hair has become white, my spirit turned heavy, my knees no longer carry me nimble for dancing like a fawn. About these things I groan. What can I do? For a human not to grow old is impossible. They say Dawn, dazzled by love, took Tithonos in her rose arms to the utter end of the earth. Once beautiful and young, time seized him into gray old age, husband of a deathless wife.”

Willis Barnstone Sappho

Author:Sappho

“Yet I love refinement and Eros has got me brightness and the beauty of the sun.”

Willis Barnstone Sappho

Author:Sappho

“Really, if you are my friend, chose a younger bed. I cannot bear to live with you when I am the older.”

Willis Barnstone Sappho

Author:Sappho

“Rebuff other ways as quickly as you can and you, Dika, with your soft hands take stems of lovely anise and loop them in your locks. The blessed Graces love to gaze at one in flowers but turn their backs on one whose hair is bare.”

Willis Barnstone Sappho

Author:Sappho

“Atthis, you looked at what I was And hated what you saw”

Hate Sadness Sappho

Book:Come Close

Source: Come Close

“Peace, you never seemed so tedious As now - no, never quite like this.”

Peace Melancholy Sappho Quite

Book:Come Close

Source: Come Close