193 Quotes by Sappho

Really, if you are my friend,choose a younger bedI can't bear to live withwhen I am the older

Andromedaforgotbut PsapfoI loved youIn Kypros I am queenfor you a poweras sun blazesglory everywhere;even by the Aheron I am with you

Yet I love refinement and Eros has got mebrightness and the beauty of the sun.

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

All wouldsaythat my tonguetells talesand for a greaterman

Sweet mother, now I cannot work the loom.Sleek Afroditi broke me with longing for a boy.

I could not hopeto touch the skywith my two arms

My mother used to sayin her youthit was a great ornament to weara purple ribbonlooped in her hair. But a girlwith hair yellower than torch flameneed wear justa wreath of bloomingflowers, or lately maybea colorful headbandfrom Sardisor some Ionian city

To me he seems equal to gods,the man who sits facing youand hears you near as you speaksoftly and laughin a sweet echo that joltsthe heart in my ribs. Nowwhen I look at you a momentmy voice is emptyand can say nothing as my tonguecracks and slender fire racesunder my skin. My eyes are deadto light, my earspound, and sweat pours over me.I convulse, greener than grassand feel my mind slip as I goclose to deathYet I must suffer, even poor