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„Virginity, virginity, when you leave me, where do you go?I am gone and never come back to you.I never return.“
„O dream on your black wingsyou come when I am sleeping.Sweet is the god but still I amin agony and far from my strength.for I had hope (none now) to sharesomething of the blessed gods,nor was I so foolishas to scorn pleasant toys.Now may I haveall these things.“
„Of course I am downcast and tremblewith pity for my statewhen old age and wrinkles cover me,when Eros flies aboutand I pursue the glorious young.Pick up your lyreand sing to us of her who wearsviolets on her breasts. Sing especiallyof her who is wandering.“
„Like the sweet apple reddening on the topmost branch,the topmost apple on the tip of the branch,and the pickers forgot it,well, no, they didn’t forget, they just couldn’t reach it.“
„A handsome man guards his image a while;a good man will one day take on beauty.“
„Shimmering,iridescent,deathless Aphrodite,child of Zeus, weaver of wiles,I beg you,do not crush my spirit with anguish, Lady,but come to me now…“
„The moon has set,And the Pleiades.Midnight.The hour has gone by.I sleep alone.“
„Truly, I wish I were dead.She was weeping when she left me,and said many things to me, and said this:”How much we have suffered, Sappho.Truly, I don’t want to leave you.”“
„Some say cavalry and others claiminfantry or a fleet of long oarsis the supreme sight on the black earth.I say it isthe one you love. And easily proved.Didn’t Helen, who far surpassed allmortals in beauty, desert the bestof men, her king,and sail off to Troy and forgether daughter and her dear parents? MerelyAphrodite’s gaze made her readily bendand led her farfrom her path. These tales remind me nowof Anaktoria who isn’t here,yet Ifor onewould rather see her warm supple stepand the sparkle in her face than watch allthe chariots in Lydia and foot soldiers armoredin glittering bronze.“
„Look at him, just like a god,that man sitting across from you,whoever he is,listening to yourclose, sweet voice,your irresistible laughterAnd O yes,it sets my heart racing—one glance at youand I can’t get any words out,my voice cracks,a thin flame runs under my skin,my eyes go blind,my ears ring,a cold sweat pours down my body,I tremble all over,turn paler than grass.“
„If you are my friend, stand up before meand scatter the grace that’s in your eyes.“
„Eros has shaken my mind,wind sweeping down the mountain on oaks“
„Now may I haveall these things.“
„Sweet is the god but still I amin agony and far from my strength.“
„O dream on your black wingsyou come when I am sleeping.“