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21 " you came and I was crazy for youand you cooled my mind that burned with longing "
― Sappho , If Not, Winter: Fragments of Sappho
22 " you burn me "
23 " I would not think to touch the sky with two arms "
24 " may you sleep on the breast of your delicate friend "
25 " stars around the beautiful moonhide back their luminous formwhenever all full she shineson the earthsilvery "
26 " I don't know what to dotwo states of mind in me "
27 " I simply want to be dead.Weeping she left mewith many tears and said this:Oh how badly things have turned out for us.Sappho, I swear, against my will I leave you.And I answered her:Rejoice, go andremember me. For you know how we cherished you. "
28 " For the man who is beautiful is beautiful to see but the good man will at once also beautiful be "
29 " of all stars the most beautiful "
30 " not one girl I thinkwho looks on the light of the sunwill everhave wisdomlike this "
31 " for when i look at you, even a moment, nospeaking is left in meno: tongue breaks and thinfire is racing under skin "
32 " As sometimes at sunset the rosyfingered moon surpasses all the stars. And her light stretches over salt sea equally and flowerdeep fields. "
33 " but me you have forgottenor you love some man more than me "
34 " for you beautiful ones my thoughtis not changeable "
35 " but I am not someone who likes to woundrather I have a quiet mind "
36 " Eros shook my mind like a mountain wind falling on oak trees. "
37 " Reminded me of Anaktoria, who is gone. I would rather see her lovely step and the motion of light on her face than chariots of Lydians or ranks of footsoldiers in arms. "
38 " - bind your hair with lovely crowns, tying stems of anise together in your soft hands. For the blesses Graces prefer to look on one who wears flowers and turn away from those without a crown. "
39 " I use to weave crowns "
40 " for her dress when you saw it stirred you. And i rejoice. In fact she herself once blamed meKyprogeneiabecause i prayedthis word:i want "