Sappho
Would Jove appoint some flower to reign, in matchless beauty on the plain, the Rose (mankind will all agree). The Rose the queen of flowers should be.Collection: Beauty
What cannot be said will be wept.Collection: Said
May I write words more naked than flesh, stronger than bone, more resilient than sinew, sensitive than nerve.Collection: Writing
Beauty endures only for as long as it can be seen; goodness, beautiful today, will remain so tomorrow.Collection: Beautiful
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.Collection: Love
Whatever one loves most is beautiful.Collection: Beautiful
Someone, I tell you, in another time will remember usCollection: Remember
Stars veil their beauty soon / Beside the glorious moon, / When her full silver light / Doth make the whole earth bright.Collection: Stars
Love is a cunning weaver of fantasies and fables.Collection: Love
Although only breath, words which I command are immortal.Collection: Immortal
Once again love drives me on, that loosener of limbs, bittersweet creature against which nothing can be done.Collection: Done
No honey for me, if it comes with a bee.Collection: Honey
Stand and face me, my love,and scatter the grace in your eyes.Collection: Famous Love
All the while, believe me, I prayed our night would last twice as long.Collection: Long Distance Relationship
From all the offspring of the earth and heaven love is the most precious.Collection: Love
Love shook my heart/ Like the wind on the mountain/ Troubling the oak-treesCollection: Heart
Now the Earth with many flowers puts on her spring embroideryCollection: Spring
I will let my body flow like water over the gentle cushions.Collection: Water
I do not know what to do, my mind's in two.Collection: Two
There is no place for grief in a house which serves the Muse.Collection: Grief
Love - bittersweet, irrepressible - loosens my limbs and I tremble.Collection: Sensual
Mere air, these words, but delicious to hear.Collection: Air
When anger spreads through the breath, guard thy tongue from barking idly.Collection: Anger
The evening star Is the most beautiful of all starsCollection: Beautiful
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.Collection: Lying
Death is an ill; 'tis thus the Gods decide: / For had death been a boon, the Gods had died.Collection: Death
I know not what to do, my mind is dividedCollection: Mind
Death is an evil; the gods have so judged; had it been good, they would die.Collection: Evil
I would not think to touch the sky with two armsCollection: Thinking
Love, like a mountain-wind upon an oak, falling upon me, shakes me leaf and bough.Collection: Fall
The moon has set, and the Pleiades; it is midnight, and time passes, and I sleep alone.Collection: Sleep
Experience shows us Wealth unchaperoned by Virtue is never an innocuous neighbor.Collection: Responsibility
With his venom irresistible and bittersweet that loosener of limbs, Love reptile-like strikes me downCollection: Love
He who is fair to look upon is good, and he who is good will soon be fair also.Collection: Beauty
Eros harrows my heart: wild gales sweeping desolate mountains, uprooting oaks.Collection: Heart
How love the limb-loosener sweeps me awayCollection: Limbs
Without warning as a whirlwind swoops on an oak Love shakes my heartCollection: Love
I took my lyre and said: come now, my heavenly tortoise shell: become a speaking instrument.Collection: Music
Death must be an evil and the gods agree; for why else would they live for ever?Collection: Evil
In gold sandals / dawn like a thief / fell upon me.Collection: Gold
Hesperus bringing together All that the morning star scattered.Collection: Morning
Raise high the roof-beam, carpenters. Like Ares comes the bridegroom, taller far than a tall man.Collection: Men
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.Collection: Lying
The Moon and Pleiades have set, / Midnight is nigh, / The time is passing, passing, yet / Alone I lie.Collection: Lying