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BE KIND TO ME by SAPPHO

First Line: GONGYLA, I ASK ONLY
Last Line: COME SOON
Subject(s): APHRODITE; LOVE - EROTIC; GAYS & LESBIANS; LOVE; MYTHOLOGY - CLASSICAL;

Gongyla; I ask only
that you wear the cream
white dress when you come
Desire darts about your
loveliness, drawn down in
circling flight at sight of it
and I am glad, although
once I too quarrelled
with Aphrodite to whom
I pray that you will
come soon



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