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• The evening star Is the most beautiful of all stars

  Safo

  Beautiful, Stars, Evening

  Sappho, Mary Barnard (1958). “Sappho”, p.26, Univ of California Press

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• 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.

  Safo

  Lying, Muse, Poet

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• Death is an ill; 'tis thus the Gods decide: / For had death been a boon, the Gods had died.

  Safo

  Death, Boon, Ill

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• Dancing up the full moon
  Round some fair new altar
  Trample the soft blossoms of fine grass.

  Safo

  Dance, Moon, Dancing

  Sappho “One Hundred Poems”, Lulu.com

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• I know not what to do, my mind is divided

  Safo

  Mind, Divided, Knows

  Sappho (1887). “Sappho: Memoir, Text, Selected Renderings and a Literal Translation”

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• Death is an evil; the gods have so judged; had it been good, they would die.

  Safo

  Evil, Dies, Judged

  Safo, Henry Thornton Wharton (1895). "Safo: Memoria, Texto, Renderings Seleccionados, y una Traducción Literal"

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• No se me ocurriría tocar el cielo con los dos brazos

  Safo

  Pensar, Cielo, Dos

  Safo, Henry Thornton Wharton (1895). "Safo: Memoria, Texto, Renderings Seleccionados, y una Traducción Literal"

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• El amor, como un viento de montaña sobre un roble, cayendo sobre mí, me sacude hoja y rama.

  Safo

  Otoño, Viento, Montaña

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• La luna se ha puesto, y las Pléyades; es medianoche, y el tiempo pasa, y yo duermo solo.

  Safo

  Sueño, Luna, Medianoche

  Fragmento 94

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• Experience shows us Wealth unchaperoned by Virtue is never an innocuous neighbor.

  Safo

  Responsibility, Wealth, Virtue

  Sappho, Mary Barnard (1958). “Sappho”, p.85, Univ of California Press

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• With his venom irresistible and bittersweet that loosener of limbs, Love reptile-like strikes me down

  Safo

  Love, Reptiles, Bittersweet

  Sappho, Mary Barnard (1958). “Sappho”, p.53, Univ of California Press

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• He who is fair to look upon is good, and he who is good will soon be fair also.

  Safo

  Beauty, Looks, Goodness

  Sappho (1925). “The Poems of Sappho: With Historical & Critical Notes, Translations, and a Bibliography”

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• Eros harrows my heart: wild gales sweeping desolate mountains, uprooting oaks.

  Safo

  Heart, Mountain, Uprooting

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• How love the limb-loosener sweeps me away

  Safo

  Extremidades

  Sappho, Erinna, Ovid (1925). “The songs of Sappho: including the recent Egyptian discoveries, the poems of Erinna, Greek poems about Sappho, Ovid's epistle of Sappho to Phaon translated into rimed verse”

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• Sin previo aviso como un torbellino se abalanza sobre un roble El amor sacude mi corazón

  Safo

  Amor, Corazón, Advertencia

  Safo, Mary Barnard (1958). "Sappho", p.46, Univ of California Press

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• If you are squeamish
  Don't prod the
  beach rubble.

  Safo

  Beach, Rubble, Ifs

  Sappho, Mary Barnard (1958). “Sappho”, p.84, Univ of California Press

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• I took my lyre and said: come now, my heavenly tortoise shell: become a speaking instrument.

  Safo

  Music, Tortoises, Shells

  Sappho, Mary Barnard (1958). “Sappho”, p.10, Univ of California Press

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• La muerte debe ser un mal y los dioses están de acuerdo; porque, si no, ¿por qué iban a vivir eternamente?

  Safo

  Evil, Immortality, Agree

  Safo (1988). "Poemas y fragmentos", Lyle Stuart

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• In gold sandals / dawn like a thief / fell upon me.

  Safo

  Gold, Dawn, Thieves

  Safo (1965). "Lyrics in the Original Greek", Garden City, N.Y. : Anchor books [1965].

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• Hesperus bringing together All that the morning star scattered.

  Safo

  Morning, Stars, Together

  Sappho “One Hundred Poems”, Lulu.com

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• For some the fairest thing on the dark earth is Thermopylae,
  And the Spartan phalanx lowering lances to die.

  Safo

  Dark, Earth, Thermopylae

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• Raise high the roof-beam, carpenters. Like Ares comes the bridegroom, taller far than a tall man.

  Safo

  Men, Beam, Roof

  "Sappho: Memoir, Text, Selected Renderings, and a Literal Translation".

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• 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.

  Safo

  Lying, Moon, Sky

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• The Moon and Pleiades have set, / Midnight is nigh, / The time is passing, passing, yet / Alone I lie.

  Safo

  Lying, Moon, Night

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• Builders, raise the ceiling high, Raise the dome into the sky, Hear the wedding song! For the happy groom is near, Tall as Mars, and statelier, Hear the wedding song!

  Safo

  Song, Sky, Mars

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