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Sappho Love Poetry 

 Sappho /  fragment 16     
       
Some say that the most beautiful thing on this dark earth is a host of horsemen,
  others that it is an army of foot-soldiers,  
     and others that it is a fleet of ships;             
But, I say it is what you love. 

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Sweet Apple
 (B93 &B94) 
I 
...You’re                                         
  Just like the sweet apple reddening at the highest branch 
 and missed by the apple pickers - 
No, 
They did not miss you! 
 They just couldn’t reach so high. 
II 
And, 
You’re just like the mountain Hyacinth, 
 trodden by the shepherds 
 next to the purple blossoms 
                              --  Sappho

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...SAPPHO 

YOUR BODY IS ALL GRACE 
YOUR EYES.....HONEY, 
THE LOVE FLOWS INTO 
YOUR LONGED-FOR FACE.

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Sappho (6th Century B.C.) 

I live here miserable and broken with desire, 
Pierced through, to the bones, 
By bitterness of this god given painful love. 
O friends, this passion makes my limbs limp 
And tramples over me.


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