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With his venom/ Irresistible/ and bittersweet/ that loosener/ of limbs, Love/ reptile-like/ strikes me down.
Sappho (trans. Mary Barnard)
21 Tuesday Aug 2018
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With his venom/ Irresistible/ and bittersweet/ that loosener/ of limbs, Love/ reptile-like/ strikes me down.
Sappho (trans. Mary Barnard)
19 Thursday Jul 2018
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And I said … I shall burn the fat thigh-bone of a white she-goat on her altar …
20 Friday Apr 2018
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I loved you once, Atthis, long ago. You seemed like a child to me, little and graceless.
20 Friday Apr 2018
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For me neither honey nor the honey bee.
20 Friday Apr 2018
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What girl has seduced you? Draped in burlap, she doesn’t even know to pull her rags down over her ankles.
20 Friday Apr 2018
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blessed one/ lovely braids … O Cypris may she find you more bitter still and Dorikha not boast of her desire come to fulfillment a second time.
01 Wednesday Nov 2017
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Like a mountain whirlwind
punishing the oak trees,
love shattered my heart.
Sappho (translated by Willis Barnstone)
01 Wednesday Nov 2017
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Mother darling, I cannot work the loom,
for sleek Aphrodite has almost crushed
and broken me with desire for a boy.
Sappho (translated by Willis Barnstone)
26 Friday Feb 2016
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Is my love nothing for I’ve borne no children?
10 Wednesday Sep 2014
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