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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Author: sappho, Matches Found: 842 Sappho Poet's Biography 842 poems available by this author ( ON A LADY INDIFFERENT TO POETRY) First Line: You though! Die and you'll lie dumb in the dirt; nobody care, and none Last Line: Not worth anyone's glance, lost in the vague colorless drifting dead Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical (HER) SHIRT Last Line: Carpet %p Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical A COOL RETREAT Poem Text First Line: Boughs with apples laden around me whisper; Last Line: Stealeth upon me. Subject(s): Aphrodite; Love - Erotic; Love; Mythology - Classical A GIRL Poem Text First Line: I have a child; so fair Last Line: Nor lands men long to see. Subject(s): Aphrodite; Love - Erotic; Girls; Love; Mythology - Classical ABLUTION First Line: Thus drowsy atthis, laughing at my door Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical ABOUT THE COOL WATER ABOVE Last Line: Endurance %man %all Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical ADONIS AND APHRODITE First Line: From the wound death spreads into the delicate limbs Last Line: And cry, and tear the fine threads underneath Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical AEOLIAN ODE First Line: In ancient crete around love's altar where the delicate Last Line: Of soft footsteps kept time in the choral dance Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical AGALLIDE First Line: Equal to a god he seems who Last Line: It is this we must bear, %for so ... Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical AGE AND LIGHT First Line: Here is success for your tongue, my children Last Line: Are for me the same as desire for the sun Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical AGE WITHERS NOW MY FLESH Last Line: To a passion for sunlight Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical AIL A LIVELY SUMMER Last Line: Said in %aphrodita Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical AIR Last Line: Ivory %cl(asp Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical ALKAIOS Last Line: Speak out whatever is fitting and right Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical ALL Last Line: And the other Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical ALL COLORS TANGLED TOGETHER Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical ALL NIGHT LONG THE GIRLS Last Line: Than the trilling nightingale Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical ALL THAT'S (LOVED Last Line: And to men ( %larger Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical ALL TOO OFTEN Last Line: For them Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical ALL YELLOW GOLD AND LIKE A DAUGHTER Last Line: Would I leave her Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical ALONE First Line: The moon and pleiades Last Line: I lie in bed, alone Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical ALONE First Line: The moon, the pleiads disappear Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical ALONE First Line: The moon and the pleiades %are set. It is midnight Last Line: I lie in bed alone ALREADY OLD AGE IS WRINKLING MY Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical; Old Age; Women AN ABSENT FRIEND Poem Text First Line: A glorious goddess in her eyes / were you, her comrade, and your songs Last Line: And in her heart sick longing grows. Subject(s): Absence; Aphrodite; Love - Erotic; Love; Mythology - Classical; Separation; Isolation AN HYMN TO VENUS Poem Text First Line: O venus, beauty of the skies Last Line: And give me all my heart desires. Subject(s): Aphrodite; Love - Erotic; Love; Mythology - Classical; Venus (goddess) ANAKTORIA First Line: Handsome horses o shiver and admire Last Line: Than the long battle line of lydia's charioteers, %round shields and helmets Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical AND APHRODITE SAID Last Line: Sappho, you and my attendant eros' Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical AND I GO Last Line: Harmony %the dance Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical AND I YEARN Last Line: And I hunt Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical AND LET HER FIND YOU, KYPRIAN, BITTERER STILL Last Line: A second time Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical AND NIGHT'S BLACK SLEEP UPON THE EYES Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical AND NOW I SHALL SING Last Line: To delight my friends Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical AND ONE FOR HIS MISTRESS First Line: Aphrodite, cyprian, let her find you Last Line: He is dying, cytherea, adonis the delicate. What shall we do? %'beat your breasts, girls, and tear y Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical AND SINCE YOU ARE MY FRIEND Last Line: For I can't bear to keep house together %being the elder Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical AND THEN Last Line: Than the svelte gyrinno Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical AND THERE, WHEN THEY HAD STIRRED Last Line: Come to our new kinsman Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical AND THIS Last Line: And the responsibility ( %nor many Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical AND YOU, DIKA, BIND LOVELY GARLANDS Last Line: Aside from those who go ungarlanded Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical AND YOU, MY DIKA, CROWN YOUR LOVELY LOCKS WITH GARLANDS Last Line: With flowers, and turn away from the ungarlanded Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical AND YOUR BOY'S BEAUTY Last Line: Have the balance Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical ANDROMACHE'S WEDDING Poem Text First Line: Hector and his men bring the girl, her eyes gleaming Last Line: Singing for hector and for andromache divine. Subject(s): Aphrodite; Love - Erotic; Love; Marriage; Mythology - Classical; Weddings; Husbands; Wives ANOINTING Last Line: Bedroom Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical ANOTHER First Line: When you lie dead there will be no memory of you Last Line: I think that someone will remember us in another time Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical ANOTHER TO THE SAME First Line: When you lie dead there will be no memory of you Last Line: Of hades, too, you'll wander, flittering after faded corpses Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical APHRODITA Last Line: Seafoam Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical APHRODITA DRESSED IN AN EMBROIDERY OF FLOWERS Last Line: Throughout the seige Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical APHRODITE OF THE FLOWERS AT KNOSSOS COMING DOWN FROM HEAVEN'S MOUNTAIN First Line: Leave crete and come to this holy temple Last Line: And mingle our celebration wit sud- %den joy Variant Title(s): To Aphrodite Of The Flowers, At Knosso Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical; Nature APPLE First Line: The fruit-gatherers Last Line: Too high to pick Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical ARBOR First Line: He seems to be a god, that man Last Line: From the narrow between Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical ARKHEANASSA AND GORGO Last Line: Shall be known as Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical AROUND Last Line: Clouds Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical AS A HYACINTH IN THE MOUNTAINS THAT MEN SHEPHERDING Last Line: Tread underfoot, and to the ground its flower, all purple Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical AS A POET OF LESBOS SURPASSES FOREIGNERS Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical AS A SWEET APPLE REDDENS Last Line: They couldn't reach it Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical AS GOOD NATURED AS A LITTLE GIRL Last Line: I don't snap and pout and rage Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical AS IT HAPPENS Last Line: But you know well Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical AS ONCE IN CRETE Last Line: In that antique time Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical AS THE STARS SURROUNDING THE LOVELY MOON WILL Last Line: Over the whole earth Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical ASLEEP AGAINST THE BREASTS OF A FRIEND Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical AT NOONTIME First Line: When the earth is Last Line: The cricket sets %up a high-pitched %singing in his wings Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical; Night AT THE TEMPLE Last Line: Who comes in flowers. The uncrowned they turn away Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical AWED BY HER SPLENDOR Last Line: When she %is roundest and lights %earth with her silver Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical; Night BARBITOS, BAROMOS, BARMOS Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical BE KIND TO ME Poem Text First Line: Gongyla, I ask only Last Line: Come soon Subject(s): Aphrodite; Love - Erotic; Gays & Lesbians; Love; Mythology - Classical BEAUTIFUL Last Line: For day is nigh Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical BEAUTY (1) Poem Text First Line: Like the sweet apple which reddens upon the topmost bough Last Line: Forgot it not, nay, but got it not, for none could get it till now. Variant Title(s): One Girl (a Combination From Sappho): 1;a Young Bride (1) Subject(s): Aphrodite; Beauty; Brides; Love - Erotic; Love; Mythology - Classical BEAUTY (2) Poem Text First Line: Like the wild hyacinth flower, which on the hills is found Last Line: Until the purple blossom is trodden into the ground. Variant Title(s): A Young Bride (2);one Girl (a Combination From Sappho): 2 Subject(s): Aphrodite; Beauty; Brides; Love - Erotic; Love; Mythology - Classical BEAUTY IS BEAUTY ONLY WHILE YOU GAZE ON IT Last Line: But one who's good will soon be beautiful as well Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical BEAUTY IS FOR THE EYES AND FADES IN A WHILE Last Line: But goodness is a beauty that lasts forever Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical BECAME Last Line: For no Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical BEFORE MY LYING HEART COULD SPEAK FOR LIFE Last Line: No sacred grove Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical BEFOREHAND Last Line: Kran(n)iades %girls Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical BELOVED First Line: Him I hold as happy as god in heaven Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical BLACK DREAMS OF SUCH VIRULENCE Last Line: And I %this Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical BLAST OF LOVE First Line: Like a mountain whirlwind Last Line: Punishing the oak trees, %love shattered my heart Variant Title(s): Like A Mountain Whirlwin Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical BLEST AS THE IMMORTAL GODS IS HE BRIDE WITH BEAUTIFUL FEET Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical BRIDEGROOM First Line: What can %sappho Last Line: Stiffly %pliant? Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical BRIDEGROOM, EXULT! JUST AS YOU PRAYED Last Line: Aphrodita has honored you above all Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical BRIDEGROOM, FOR YOUR TIRESOME BACHELOR FRIENDS Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical BRIDEGROOM, YOU ARE BLESSED Last Line: Aphrodite honors you exceedingly Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical BRIGHT-THRONED, UNDYING APHRODITE Last Line: Spirit would have let it have, yourself %my fellow-soldier BRIGHTNESS AND Last Line: Desperation, %land Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical BUT ATTIS, TO YOU THE THOUGHT OF ME GROWS Last Line: Hateful, and you fly off to andromeda Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical BUT I'M NOT ONE OF THOSE WITH A RESENTFUL Last Line: Temperament: I have a quiet heart Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical BUT INTRICATE SANDALS Last Line: Covered up her feet, a delightful piece of %lydian work Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical BUT STAND BEFORE ME, IF YOU ARE MY FRIEND Last Line: And spread the grace that's in your eyes Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical CALLED YOU Last Line: Eros has given me, beauty and the light of the sun Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical CAME HUSBAND Last Line: )ing bri(ght Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical CERTAINLY NOW THEY'VE HAD QUITE ENOUGH Last Line: Of gorgo Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical CHILDREN'S SONG First Line: Childhood, childhood where have you gone? Last Line: Never come back. %never Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical CHILL DAMPENS THEIR TEMPER Last Line: Their wings limp Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical CHTHO(NIC Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical CLEAR KEEN SONG Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical CLOSE BESIDE ME NOW AS I PRAY APPEARING Last Line: As in the old days Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical COME DOWN FROM THE SKY Last Line: Share, in goblets laced with gold, %this potion that blends these ritual %delights Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical COME NOW, MY HOLY LYRE Last Line: Find your voice and speak to me Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical COME OUT OF CRETE Last Line: Our dancing and mortal wine Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical COME TO ME FROM CRETE, DOWN FROM HEAVEN Last Line: Pour it like fine wine Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical COME TO ME NOW, YOU DELICATE GRACES AND YOU FAIRTRESSED MUSES Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical COME TO ME ONCE MORE, O YOUR MUSES, LEAVING GOLDEN Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical COME, HOLY TORTOISE SHELL Last Line: My lyre, and become a poem Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical COMPANY OF HORSEMEN OR OF INFANTRY Last Line: Round shields and helmets Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical CORONET OF CELERY Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical CRETAN WOMEN ONCE DANCED THIS WAY Last Line: Treading the tender flowers of grass Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical CRYING ASIA! THAT FAMOUS PLACE Last Line: And things made of ivory Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical CURLS ( ) PLACING THE LYRE Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical DANCERS First Line: The moon appeared in all her fullness Last Line: Crushing the soft flowering grass Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical DANGER Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical DAUGHTER OF KINGS Last Line: Hail! Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical DAWN Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical DAWN WITH SMALL GOLDEN FEET Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical DEATHLESS APHRODITE OF DAZZLING THRONE Last Line: Desires, accomplish for me, and do you yourself do battle with me Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical DEDUKE MEN A SELANNA First Line: The moon has set now, and Last Line: And I lie here alone DELICATE ADONIS DIES Last Line: And rend your robes Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical DELICATE GIRL, IN THE OLD DAYS Last Line: I strayed from you, and now again Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical DESIRE First Line: You came to me, when I lay aching Last Line: Under the tender place what yearns Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical DESIRE HAS SHAKEN MY MIND Last Line: Roars through trees Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical DO I REALLY STILL LONG FOR VIRGINITY? Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical DON'T STIR Last Line: The trash Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical DON'T YOU REMEMBER Last Line: We, too, did such things in our youth Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical DONE Last Line: The wandering Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical DOUN GAES THE MUIN HERSEL, AN AA Last Line: Nicht is nearin her mirkest hour %and yet mylane I lie Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical; Scottish Translations DOWN FROM THE BLUE SKY Last Line: His shirt of phoenician red Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical DOWNWARD MY TEARS Last Line: And a high wind blow him away Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical DREAM First Line: O dream on your black wings Last Line: Now may I have %all these things Variant Title(s): O Dream From The Blacknes Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical DRESS Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical DUSK AND WESTERN STAR Last Line: Hesperos, most beautiful %of stars Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical EARTH WITH HER MANY GARLANDS Last Line: Is embroidered Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical EKTOR Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical ENDLESS NIGHT First Line: The moon has set Last Line: Midnight. Time passes. %I lie alone Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical EPIPHANY ABOUT GONGYLA, HERMES, AND HADES First Line: Gongyla, is there no sign of you? No epiphany Last Line: With lotus, the dewy banks %of the river of hades Variant Title(s): An Epiphany About Gongyla, Hermes And Hade Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical EPITHALAMIUM, SELS. First Line: Happy bridegroom, hesper brings Last Line: Happy bridegroom, seek your bride Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical; Wedding Song EROS First Line: Eros, shaking under my rib cage Last Line: My sweet, my bitter, unimaginable beast Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical EROS First Line: Now in my %heart I %see clearly Last Line: Etched %by love Variant Title(s): Now In My / Heart Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical EROS ARRIVED FROM HEAVEN WRAPPED IN A PURPLE MANTLE Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical EROS SEIZES AND SHAKES MY VERY SOUL Last Line: Shaking ancient oaks Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical EROS SHOOK ME Last Line: Like wind exploding on mountain oak Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical EROS THE LIMB-LOOSENER SHAKES ME AGAIN Last Line: That sweet, bitter, impossible creature Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical EROS WEAVER OF MYTHS Last Line: Eros bringer of pain Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical EROS, CHILD OF GEA AND OURANOS Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical EROS, WEAVER OF TALES Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical ETERNAL APHRODITE Last Line: And be yourself my ally in the chase Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical EVENING Poem Text First Line: Thou, hesper, bringest homeward all Last Line: The children to their mother's side. Subject(s): Aphrodite; Love - Erotic; Evening; Love; Mythology - Classical; Sunset; Twilight EVENING STAR First Line: Hesper, thou bringest home all that radiant dawn has scattered Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical EVENING STAR First Line: Evening star, you are the one Last Line: And gather the wild. %back to the mother you bring her child Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical EVENING STAR First Line: Hesperos, you bring home all the bright dawn scattered Last Line: Bring home the goat, bring the child home to her mother Variant Title(s): Hesperos, You Bring Home All The Bright Dawn Disperse Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical EVENING, YOU BRING BACK ALL THAT THE DAWN SACTTERS ABROAD Last Line: You bring back the goat, your bring to its mother the child Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical EVENSONG First Line: All things thou bringest, hesper, that the bright dawn did part Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical FALLING DOWNWARD Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical FAR MORE MELODIOUS THAN THE HARP Last Line: More golden than gold Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical FAR MORE MELODIOUS THAN THE LYRE Last Line: More golden than gold Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical FAREWELL, O BRIDE, FAREWELL O HONORED GROOM, FAREWELL Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical FEET OF THE DOORKEEPER Last Line: Ten shoemakers worked to stitch them Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical FESTIVAL Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical FIRST NEWS OF SPRINGTIME Last Line: The lovesong of the nightingale Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical FLOWERS FOR THE GRACES Poem Text First Line: Weave garlands, maiden, from the strands Last Line: But turn aside from the ungarlanded. Subject(s): Aphrodite; Love - Erotic; Flowers; Love; Mythology - Classical FOOL, DON'T TRY TO BEND A STUBBORN HEART Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical FOR APHRODITA, THIS PURPLE HANDKERCHIEF Last Line: An honored gift from phokaia Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical FOR EVEN THEN, WHEN YOU WERE A LITTLE GIRL Last Line: The road to high olympos %( ) men Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical FOR ME Last Line: Nor the bee Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical FOR MY MOTHER SAID Last Line: Of the children of kleanax %horribly wasted Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical FOR THE SAKE OF THE OLD Last Line: Voice ( ) %before Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical FOR THEY SAY THAT LEDA ONCE FOUND A HYACINTH Last Line: Colored egg, all covered Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical FOR WHEN I SEE YOU OPPOSITE ME Last Line: And to liken you to tawny-haired helen is not unseemly at all Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical FOR YOU WERE ONCE A CHILD Last Line: There is no road Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical FOR YOU, O BRIDEGROOM, THERE WAS NEVER ANOTHER GIRL LIKE THIS ONE Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical FORD AT THE RIVER Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical FOREVER DEAD Poem Text First Line: Death shall be death forever unto thee Last Line: Among the shadowy, averted dead. Subject(s): Aphrodite; Love - Erotic; Love; Mythology - Classical FORGOTTEN Poem Text First Line: Dead shalt thou lie; and nought Last Line: No friendly shade thy shade shall company! Variant Title(s): Sapphic Fragment Subject(s): Aphrodite; Death; Love - Erotic; Love; Mythology - Classical; Dead, The FORSAKEN First Line: Moon's set, and pleiads Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical FORTUNATE BRIDEGROOM, NOW THE MARRIAGE THAT YOU PRAYED FOR Last Line: Aphrodite has honored you beyond all others Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical FRAE THE AIOLIC O PSAPPHO First Line: Caller rain frae abune Last Line: And sleep faas drappan doun Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical; Scottish Translations FRAGMENT 105(A) First Line: You: an achilles' apple Last Line: Poised beyond their reach Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical FRAGMENT 105(C) First Line: O my mountain hyacinth Last Line: A scarlet stain upon the earth Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical FRAGMENT: 1 First Line: Deathless aphrodite of the spangled mind Last Line: To accomplish, accomplish. You %be my ally FRAGMENT: 100 First Line: And wrapped her well Last Line: With delicate linen Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical FRAGMENT: 100 First Line: And with delicate woven cloths covered her up well FRAGMENT: 101 First Line: Crimson scented scarves Last Line: Expensive gifts Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical FRAGMENT: 101 First Line: Handcloths %purple Last Line: Valuable gifts FRAGMENT: 102 First Line: Mother, I cannot strike my loom. I'm undone Last Line: By my love for a boy by delicate aphrodite Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical FRAGMENT: 102 First Line: Sweet mother I cannot work the loom Last Line: I am broken with longing for a boy by slender aphrodite FRAGMENT: 103 First Line: Yes tell %the bride with beautiful feet Last Line: Dawn with gold sandals FRAGMENT: 103AA First Line: Small %many Last Line: Their %gorgo FRAGMENT: 103AB First Line: To kypris FRAGMENT: 103B First Line: Of the chamber Last Line: Now %for me FRAGMENT: 103CA First Line: To carry %archeanassa Last Line: They heard %maidens FRAGMENT: 104A First Line: Evening %you gather back Last Line: Of all stars the most beautiful FRAGMENT: 105A First Line: As the sweetapple reddens on a high branch Last Line: No, not forgot: were unable to reach FRAGMENT: 105B First Line: Like the hyacinth in the mountains that shepherd men Last Line: With their feet trample down and on the ground the purple %flower FRAGMENT: 106 First Line: Superior, as the lesbian bard to foreigners Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical FRAGMENT: 106 First Line: Outstanding as the lesbian singer compared to those Last Line: Elsewhere FRAGMENT: 107 First Line: Do I long still for my maidenhood? Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical FRAGMENT: 107 First Line: Do I still yearn for my virginity? FRAGMENT: 108 First Line: O beautiful o graceful one FRAGMENT: 109 First Line: We shall give, says father FRAGMENT: 110 First Line: The doorkeeper's feet are seven armlengths long Last Line: Ten shoemakers worked on them FRAGMENT: 111 First Line: Up with the roof! Last Line: Much bigger than a big man! %hymenaios! FRAGMENT: 112 First Line: Blest bridegroom, your marriage just as you prayed Last Line: Aphrodite has honored you exceedingly FRAGMENT: 113 First Line: For there never was another girl Last Line: O bridegroom, like this one Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical FRAGMENT: 113 First Line: For no %other girl Last Line: Such as this one now FRAGMENT: 114 First Line: Virginity %virginity Last Line: No longer will I come FRAGMENT: 115 First Line: To what %o beloved bridegroom Last Line: Do I compare you FRAGMENT: 116 First Line: Farewell %bride Last Line: Much-honored bridegroom FRAGMENT: 117 First Line: Good-bye to the bride! Good-bye to the groom! Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical FRAGMENT: 117 First Line: May you fare well Last Line: O the song of adonis FRAGMENT: 118 First Line: But come Last Line: Take voice Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical FRAGMENT: 118 First Line: Yes! Radiant lyre speak to me Last Line: Become a voice FRAGMENT: 119 First Line: Cloth dripping FRAGMENT: 12 First Line: Thought Last Line: Barefoot FRAGMENT: 120 First Line: For I am not spiteful Last Line: Of an innocent child Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical FRAGMENT: 120 First Line: But I am not someone who likes to wound Last Line: Rather I have a quiet mind FRAGMENT: 121 First Line: But if you love us Last Line: To live with you when I am the older one FRAGMENT: 122 First Line: A delicate girl Last Line: Plucking buds Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical FRAGMENT: 122 First Line: Gathering flowers so very delicate a girl FRAGMENT: 123 First Line: In golden sandals dawn Last Line: Had just come to me Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical FRAGMENT: 123 First Line: Just now goldsandaled dawn FRAGMENT: 124 First Line: You yourself, kalliope Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical FRAGMENT: 124 First Line: And you yourself kalliope FRAGMENT: 125 First Line: I myself wove garlands once Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical FRAGMENT: 125 First Line: I used to weave crowns FRAGMENT: 126 First Line: May you sleep on the breast of your delicate friend FRAGMENT: 127 First Line: Her (ones again) %muses Last Line: Leaving the gold FRAGMENT: 128 First Line: Now come, o delicate graces Last Line: And muses of lovely hair Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical FRAGMENT: 128 First Line: Here now %tender graces Last Line: And muses with beautiful hair FRAGMENT: 129A First Line: But me you have forgotten Last Line: Or you love some man more than me FRAGMENT: 130 First Line: Love that looses my limbs shakes me again Last Line: The bittersweet, irresistible, creeping thing Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical FRAGMENT: 130 First Line: Eros the melter of limbs (now again) stirs me Last Line: Sweetbitter unmanageable creature who steals in FRAGMENT: 131 First Line: Atthis, you've come to hate the thought of me Last Line: You go fluttering after andromeda now Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical FRAGMENT: 131 First Line: Atthis, to you it has become hateful Last Line: To think of me and you fly to andromeda FRAGMENT: 132 First Line: I have a beautiful child who is like golden flowers Last Line: All lydia or lovely FRAGMENT: 133 First Line: Andromeda makes a fair exchange Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical FRAGMENT: 133 First Line: Andromedia has a fine exchange Last Line: Aphrodite giver of blessings FRAGMENT: 134 First Line: I spoke with you Last Line: O kypros-born Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical FRAGMENT: 134 First Line: I conversed with you in a dream Last Line: Kyprogeneia FRAGMENT: 135 First Line: Why, o irana Last Line: The swallow Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical FRAGMENT: 135 First Line: Why does pandion's daughter Last Line: The swallow FRAGMENT: 136 First Line: Messenger of spring Last Line: The nightingale Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical FRAGMENT: 136 First Line: Messenger of spring Last Line: Nightingale with a voice of longing FRAGMENT: 137 First Line: I want to say something but shame Last Line: But rather you would speak about what is just FRAGMENT: 138 First Line: Stand to face me beloved Last Line: And open out the grace of your eyes FRAGMENT: 140 First Line: Delicate adonis is dying Last Line: And tear your garments FRAGMENT: 141 First Line: But there a bowl of ambrosia Last Line: Good thing for the bridegroom FRAGMENT: 142 First Line: Leto and niobe were best of friends Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical FRAGMENT: 142 First Line: Leto and niobe were beloved friends FRAGMENT: 143 First Line: Golden pulse bloomed upon the shore Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical FRAGMENT: 143 First Line: And gold chickpeas were growing on the banks FRAGMENT: 144 First Line: With more Last Line: Of gorgo Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical FRAGMENT: 144 First Line: To those who have quite had their fill Last Line: Of gorgo FRAGMENT: 145 First Line: Don't move the pebble piles Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical FRAGMENT: 145 First Line: Do not move stones FRAGMENT: 146 First Line: For me neither honey nor bee Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical FRAGMENT: 146 First Line: Neither for me honey nor the honey bee FRAGMENT: 147 First Line: Someone, I say Last Line: Will remember us Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical FRAGMENT: 147 First Line: Someone will remember us Last Line: Even in another time FRAGMENT: 148 First Line: Wealth without virtue is no harmless neighbor Last Line: But a mixture of both attains the height of happiness FRAGMENT: 149 First Line: When all night long Last Line: It pulls them down FRAGMENT: 150 First Line: For it is not right in a house of the muses Last Line: This would not become us FRAGMENT: 151 First Line: The black sleep of the night Last Line: Cloaks my eyes Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical FRAGMENT: 151 First Line: And on the eyes Last Line: Black sheep of night FRAGMENT: 152 First Line: Mingled with colors of every kind Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical FRAGMENT: 152 First Line: Mingled with all kids of colors FRAGMENT: 153 First Line: Girl sweetvoiced FRAGMENT: 154 First Line: Full appeared the moon Last Line: And when they round the altar took their places FRAGMENT: 155 First Line: A very long farewell to the child of polyanaktides FRAGMENT: 156 First Line: Far more sweetsounding than a lyre Last Line: Golder than gold FRAGMENT: 157 First Line: Lady dawn FRAGMENT: 158 First Line: Beware the vainly barking tongue Last Line: When rage spreads in the chest Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical FRAGMENT: 158 First Line: With anger spreading in the chest Last Line: To guard against a vainly barking tongue FRAGMENT: 159 First Line: You and my servant love Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical FRAGMENT: 159 First Line: Both you and my servant eros FRAGMENT: 15A AND 15B First Line: Blessed %to loose all the wrongs he did before Last Line: How he came a second time %to love's desire FRAGMENT: 16 First Line: Some men say an army of horse and some men say an army on foot Last Line: Out of the unexpected FRAGMENT: 160 First Line: These things now for my companions Last Line: I shall sing beautifully FRAGMENT: 161 First Line: Guard her, bridgegrooms Last Line: Kings of citadels Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical FRAGMENT: 161 First Line: Guard her Last Line: Kings of cities FRAGMENT: 162 First Line: With what eyes? FRAGMENT: 163 First Line: My darling one FRAGMENT: 164 First Line: She summons her son FRAGMENT: 165 First Line: That man seems to himself FRAGMENT: 166 First Line: They say that leda once Last Line: An egg of hyacinthine %blue Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical FRAGMENT: 166 First Line: They say leda once found a hyacinth-colored Last Line: Egg hidden FRAGMENT: 167 First Line: Whiter far than an egg Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical FRAGMENT: 167 First Line: Whiter by far than an egg FRAGMENT: 168 First Line: For adonis, woe Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical FRAGMENT: 168 First Line: O for adonis FRAGMENT: 168A First Line: Who love children more than gello FRAGMENT: 168B First Line: Moon has set Last Line: Alone I lie FRAGMENT: 168C First Line: Brindled the earth Last Line: Of many wreaths Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical FRAGMENT: 168C First Line: Spangled is Last Line: The earth with her crowns FRAGMENT: 17 First Line: Close to me now as I pray Last Line: To be %to arrive FRAGMENT: 18 First Line: Pan %to tell Last Line: And for a man %greater FRAGMENT: 19 First Line: Waiting %in sacrifice Last Line: And toward %says this FRAGMENT: 192 First Line: Goblets, gold-bossed Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical FRAGMENT: 2 First Line: Here to me from krete to this holy temple Last Line: Nectar mingled with festivities: %pour FRAGMENT: 20 First Line: Gladness and %with good luck Last Line: Works %dry land FRAGMENT: 21 First Line: Pity %trembling Last Line: Mostly %goes astray FRAGMENT: 22 First Line: Work %face Last Line: This word: %I want FRAGMENT: 23 First Line: Of desire %for when I look at you Last Line: To last all night long FRAGMENT: 24A First Line: You will remember %for we in our youth Last Line: The opposite %daring FRAGMENT: 24D First Line: In a thin voice FRAGMENT: 25 First Line: Quit Last Line: Luxurious woman FRAGMENT: 26 First Line: Frequently %for those Last Line: In myself I am %aware of this FRAGMENT: 27 First Line: Yes you a child once Last Line: Road to great olympos %for men FRAGMENT: 29 First Line: Gorgo's necklace and robes Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical FRAGMENT: 29A First Line: Deep sound FRAGMENT: 29B First Line: Lady FRAGMENT: 29C First Line: Robes %necklaces Last Line: For gorgo FRAGMENT: 29H First Line: For gyrinno FRAGMENT: 3 First Line: To give %yet of the glorious Last Line: Minds %blessed ones FRAGMENT: 30 First Line: Night %girls Last Line: No more than the bird with piercing voice %shall we sleep FRAGMENT: 31 First Line: He seems to me equal to gods that man Last Line: But all is to be dared, because even a person of poverty FRAGMENT: 32 First Line: Who brought me honor Last Line: With the gift of their works Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical FRAGMENT: 32 First Line: Who honored me Last Line: By giving their works FRAGMENT: 33 First Line: O aphrodite of the golden wreath Last Line: I wish that such luck were mine! Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical FRAGMENT: 33 First Line: If only I, o goldcrowned aphrodite Last Line: Could win this lot FRAGMENT: 34 First Line: Stars around the beautiful moon Last Line: On the earth %silvery FRAGMENT: 35 First Line: Either panormos or kypros or paphps Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical FRAGMENT: 35 First Line: You either kypros or paphos or panormos FRAGMENT: 36 First Line: I long and seek after FRAGMENT: 37 First Line: In my dripping (pain) %the blamer may winds and terrors Last Line: Carry him off FRAGMENT: 38 First Line: You burn me FRAGMENT: 39 First Line: An embroidered shoe Last Line: Covered her foot Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical FRAGMENT: 39 First Line: The feet %by spangled straps covered Last Line: Beautiful lydian work FRAGMENT: 4 First Line: Heart %absolutely Last Line: Having been stained FRAGMENT: 40 First Line: I sacrifice to you Last Line: Of a white goat Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical FRAGMENT: 40 First Line: But I to you of a white goat Last Line: And I will pour wine over FRAGMENT: 41 First Line: Toward you beautiful girls Last Line: My thought is unalterable Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical FRAGMENT: 41 First Line: For you beautiful ones my thought Last Line: Is not changeable FRAGMENT: 42 First Line: The heart of the doves grows chill Last Line: And they slacken their wings Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical FRAGMENT: 42 First Line: Their heart grew cold Last Line: They let their wings down FRAGMENT: 43 First Line: Beautiful he %stirs up still things Last Line: But come o beloveds %for day is near FRAGMENT: 44 First Line: A herald came, idaios, the swift messenger Last Line: In their happiness exactly like the heavenly gods Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical FRAGMENT: 44 First Line: Kypros %herald came Last Line: And they were singing a hymn for hektor and andromache %like gods FRAGMENT: 44AA First Line: For goldhaired phoibos whom koo's daughter bore Last Line: For mortals: there is a share FRAGMENT: 45 First Line: As long as you want FRAGMENT: 46 First Line: Upon luxurious cushions Last Line: I'll lay my limbs down Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical FRAGMENT: 46 First Line: And I on a soft pillow Last Line: Will lay down my limbs FRAGMENT: 47 First Line: Love shook Last Line: Batters the oak Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical FRAGMENT: 47 First Line: Eros shook my Last Line: Mind like a mountain wind falling on oak trees FRAGMENT: 48 First Line: You came, and I was mad for you Last Line: But you chilled my heart aflame with desire Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical FRAGMENT: 48 First Line: You came and I was crazy for you Last Line: And you cooled my mind that burned with longing FRAGMENT: 49 First Line: I loved you, atthis, once ago Last Line: A little child you seemed to me and graceless FRAGMENT: 5 First Line: O kypris and nereids, undamaged I pray you Last Line: Setting aside evil FRAGMENT: 50 First Line: For the man who is beautiful is beautiful to see Last Line: But the good man will at once also beautiful be FRAGMENT: 51 First Line: I know not what to do Last Line: I'm of two minds Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical FRAGMENT: 51 First Line: I don't know what to do Last Line: Two states of mind in me FRAGMENT: 52 First Line: I couldn't hope Last Line: With my two hands Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical FRAGMENT: 52 First Line: I would not think to touch the sky with two arms FRAGMENT: 53 First Line: Rosy-armed graces Last Line: Come here to us Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical FRAGMENT: 53 First Line: Pure graces with arms like roses Last Line: Come here daughters of zeus FRAGMENT: 54 First Line: Love came from heaven Last Line: Clad in crimson cloak Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical FRAGMENT: 54 First Line: Having come from heaven wrapped in a purple cloak FRAGMENT: 55 First Line: Dead you will lies and never memory of you Last Line: You will go your way among dim shapes. Having been breathed out FRAGMENT: 56 First Line: Not one girl I think Last Line: Have wisdom %like this FRAGMENT: 57 First Line: What country girl seduces your wits Last Line: Not knowing how to pull the cloth to her ankles? FRAGMENT: 58 First Line: Running away %bitten Last Line: The brilliance and beauty of the sun - desire has allotted FRAGMENT: 59 First Line: Loves Last Line: New FRAGMENT: 6 First Line: So %go Last Line: Of gold arms %doom FRAGMENT: 60 First Line: Having encountered %wants Last Line: But yes you know well FRAGMENT: 61 First Line: They became Last Line: For not FRAGMENT: 62 First Line: You cowered %laurel tree Last Line: You got there first: beautiful %and the clothes FRAGMENT: 63 First Line: Dream of black %you come roaming and when sleep Last Line: But may it happen to me %all FRAGMENT: 64A AND B First Line: Goat %for comrades Last Line: Ugly %muse FRAGMENT: 65 First Line: To sappho, you %in kypros queen Last Line: And you in acheron's FRAGMENT: 67A First Line: And this %ruinous god Last Line: Around %desire FRAGMENT: 68A First Line: For me away from Last Line: Playing % for me harsh FRAGMENT: 69 First Line: Sinful FRAGMENT: 7 First Line: Doricha's %gives orders, for not Last Line: Like young men %beloved FRAGMENT: 70 First Line: I will go %for Last Line: Clearsounding %to all FRAGMENT: 71 First Line: You mika %but I will not allow you Last Line: Piercing breezes %wet with dew FRAGMENT: 73A First Line: Aphrodite %sweetworded desires Last Line: Sits %dews FRAGMENT: 74A First Line: Goatherd Last Line: Roses FRAGMENT: 74B First Line: Longing FRAGMENT: 74C First Line: Sweat FRAGMENT: 76 First Line: Might accomplish Last Line: To hold said FRAGMENT: 78 First Line: Nor %desire Last Line: Desire %took delight FRAGMENT: 8 First Line: Atthis for you FRAGMENT: 80 First Line: All %but different Last Line: Hair FRAGMENT: 81 First Line: Despise %quick as possible Last Line: And turn away from those without a crown FRAGMENT: 82A First Line: Mnasidika more finely shaped than soft gyrinno Last Line: More finely shaped FRAGMENT: 83 First Line: Right here Last Line: For FRAGMENT: 84 First Line: Reproach Last Line: Artemis FRAGMENT: 85A First Line: Prosperous Last Line: To listen FRAGMENT: 85B First Line: Like an old man FRAGMENT: 86 First Line: Quiet %with an aegis Last Line: Toward %my harsh FRAGMENT: 87A First Line: Rumor %hair Last Line: At the same time %man FRAGMENT: 87B First Line: Anxiety Last Line: Ground FRAGMENT: 87C First Line: Daring FRAGMENT: 87D First Line: Youth FRAGMENT: 87E First Line: Queen FRAGMENT: 87F First Line: To you Last Line: Horse FRAGMENT: 88A First Line: In front %toward Last Line: For %of weapons FRAGMENT: 88B First Line: Me Last Line: Shall love FRAGMENT: 9 First Line: Invites %all not Last Line: For hera %as long as FRAGMENT: 91 First Line: Irana, I've never come upon Last Line: Anyone more distainful than you Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical FRAGMENT: 91 First Line: Never more damaging o eirana have I encountered you FRAGMENT: 92 First Line: Robe %and %colored with saffron Last Line: Purple %rugs FRAGMENT: 93 First Line: I have Last Line: Of girls FRAGMENT: 94 First Line: I simply want to be dead Last Line: No grove no dance %no sound FRAGMENT: 95 First Line: Not %gongyla %surely a sign Last Line: And to look upon the dewy lotus banks %of acheron FRAGMENT: 96 First Line: Sardis %often turning her thoughts here Last Line: Into desire I shall come FRAGMENT: 98A First Line: For my mother Last Line: Spangled from sardis %cities FRAGMENT: 98B First Line: But for you kleis I have no Last Line: Memories terribly leaked away FRAGMENT:31 First Line: Glowing like some god %that man sits so close to you Last Line: I find myself just short %of dying FRAGMENTS: 169-192 First Line: I would lead Last Line: Gold anklebone cups FRIEND, YOU ARE GONE, BUT REMEMBER ME First Line: Honestly, I wish I were dead! Last Line: No sound, %no grove Variant Title(s): Honestly I Whish I Were Dead Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical FRIENDSHIP First Line: Lay, sweet, %your head Last Line: You love Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical FROM SAPPHO Poem Text First Line: Thou liest dead, -- lie on: of thee Last Line: Shall find in thee a lover lost. Subject(s): Aphrodite; Death; Love - Erotic; Love; Mythology - Classical; Dead, The FULL MOON Poem Text First Line: Off in the twilight hung the low full moon Last Line: Trampling the tender bloom of the soft grass. Subject(s): Aphrodite; Love - Erotic; Love; Mythology - Classical FULL MOON First Line: Round the fair moon stars veil their heads Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical FULL MOON APPEARED Last Line: All around the altar Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical GARDEN First Line: There the cool water ripples Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical GARDEN OF THE NYMPHS Poem Text First Line: Cool waters tumble, singing as they go Last Line: My soul entrancing. Subject(s): Aphrodite; Love - Erotic; Gardens & Gardening; Love; Mythology - Classical GENTLE OF VOICE Last Line: With honey in her words Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical GIRL PICKING A FLOWER JUST OPENED Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical GIRL WITH THE PLEASING VOICE Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical GIRLHOOD First Line: Like %the wild- %flower Last Line: Its petalled %print Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical GLOW AND BEAUTY OF THE STARS Last Line: When in her roundness she burns silver %about the world Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical GODDESS OF PERSUASION Last Line: Daughter of aphrodita Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical GODDESS, I SPOKE WITH YOU IN A DREAM Last Line: Cyprus-born aphrodite Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical GODS ( ) TEARS Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical GOLDEN CHICKPEAS GREW ALONG THE SHORE Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical GOLDEN GOBLETS WITH KNUCKLEBONE STEMS Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical GONGLYA / I SAID, 'O LORD' Last Line: Of acheron %where the lotus grows Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical GONGYLA Last Line: On the banks of acheron.' Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical GRACES Last Line: You, at least Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical GRACES O WITH WRISTS LIKE THE WILD ROSE Last Line: Come among us, daughters of god Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical GRANT, O / KYPRIS, AND NEREIDS TOO, THAT ALL Last Line: And may he wish to make his sisted endowed %with honor Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical GROWING OLD Last Line: Kalliope %feel Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical HAIL, BRIDE! Last Line: Long life! Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical HAIR YELLOWER THAN TORCHLIGHT First Line: My mother always said %that in her youth she was Last Line: Garland of fresh flowers will do HAND BAG Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical HAUGHTIER THAN A HORSE Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical HAVE YOU FORGOTTEN ME Last Line: More than you do me? Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical HE GLEAMS LIKE A GOD THAT Last Line: I appear little %by little in my loss to have died; %tested in every way since even ... %.......... Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical HE IS ALMOST A GOD, A MAN BESIDE YOU Last Line: So poor I've nothing to lose, I must gamble Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical HE IS DYING, CYTHEREA, ADONIS THIS DELICATE. WHAT SHALL WE DO? Last Line: Beat your breasts, girls, and tear your clothes.' Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical HE IS DYING, KYTHEREA Last Line: Tear your dresses Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical HE IS MORE THAN A HERO First Line: He is a god in my eyes Last Line: Death isn't far from me Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical HE IS, I SHOULD SAY, ON A LEVEL Last Line: As range grass, I think I am almost %on the point off death HE SEEMS TO BE A GOD, THAT MAN Last Line: But endure, even this grief of love Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical HE WHO IS FAIR IS FAIR Last Line: In time be also fair Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical HEART Last Line: Caressed Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical HEKATE, THE SHINING GOLD ATTENDANT OF APHRODITE Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical HER FRIEND FAR OFF IN SARDIS First Line: You are far in sardis now %but you think of us constantly Last Line: And desire eats away at your heart %for me to come HER GIFTS First Line: More music %than the harp Last Line: Than gold Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical HER SHOES WERE LEATHER AND FROM ASIA Last Line: Rich lydian patterns across the toes Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical HERE Last Line: Again Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical HERE ARE FIND GIFTS, CHILDREN Last Line: Yet I love refinement, and beauty and light %are for me the same as desire for the sun Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical HERMES CAME TO ME IN A DREAM. I SAID Last Line: To die, and to watch the dewy lotus %along the banks of acheron, river of hell Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical HESPERUS THE BRINGER Poem Text First Line: O hesperus, thou bringest all good things Last Line: Thou bring'st the child too to its mother's breast. Subject(s): Aphrodite; Love - Erotic; Love; Mythology - Classical HIGH IN THE CHARIOT Last Line: Against all the outlanders Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical HIM Last Line: Becomes Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical HOMECOMING First Line: You came %when I was longing for you Last Line: You were %delicious ice HONESTLY I'D AS SOON BE DEAD! Last Line: No occasion, with us away, %no grove... Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical HONESTLY, I WOULD LIKE TO DIE.' Last Line: Not a grove or a dance Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical HOPE OF LOVE Last Line: All night long Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical HORSES IN FLOWERS First Line: Come out of crete Last Line: Our dancing and mortal wine Subject(s): Animals; Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Horses; Love; Mythology - Classical HOST OF HORSEMEN, SOME SAY, IS THE LOVELIEST SIGHT Last Line: Than lydian chariots battling in armament Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical HYMN TO APHRODITE First Line: Leave crete for this holy temple Last Line: Immortal nectar in golden cups, %fill all with sudden ecstasy Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Love - Marital; Mythology - Classical HYMN TO APHRODITE First Line: Star-throned incorruptible aphrodite Last Line: Have done, do thou; be thou for my thyself too %help in the battle Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical I Last Line: Of the little girls Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical I AM APHRODITA OF THE SHIFTING EYES Last Line: My servants are eros and you, my sappho Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical I AM WILLING Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical I BID YOU, TAKE YOU LYRE Last Line: I made this prayer to her Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical I COME FORWARD, TELL Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical I DO NOT THINK THAT ANY GIRL Last Line: Will be skilled as you in her heart Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical I DON'T EXPECT TO TOUCH THE SKY WITH MY TWO HANDS Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical I DON'T KNOW WHAT TO DO. I HAVE TWO THOUGHTS Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical I DON'T KNOW WHICH WAY I'M RUNNING Last Line: My mind is part this way, part that Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical I FELL IN LOVE WITH YOU, ATTHIS Last Line: Long ago, when you were still %an ungainly little girl Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical I GAVE YOU A WHITE GOAT Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical I HAVE A BEAUTIFUL LITTLE GIRL: THE GOLDEN FLOWERS Last Line: - for her, I wouldn't take all lydia or sweet Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical I HAVE A LOVELY DAUGHTER Last Line: I'd not take all of lydia %nor even enchanting Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical I HAVE NEITHER THE HONEY NOR THE BEE Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical I HAVE NO EMBROIDERED HEADBAND Last Line: Ribbon reminds me of those days %when our enemies were in exile Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical I HAVE NOT ONE WORD FROM HER Last Line: No woodlot bloomed in spring without song Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Homosexuality; Love; Mythology - Classical I HAVE TO TELL YOU THIS, BUT SELF-RESPECT Last Line: Not stir up gossip with your tongue, insult %would not stream from your eyes-- %you might be talking Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical I LOVE Last Line: Of its beauty Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical I LOVED THEE, ATTHIS, IN THE LONG AGO Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical I LOVED YOU ATHIS First Line: I loved you athis, long ago Last Line: But you lost innocence, glow %and me, as you gained grace and guile Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical I LOVED YOU ONCE, ATTHIS Last Line: Without any grace Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical I LOVED YOU ONCE, ATTHIS, LONG AGO Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical I MIGHT LEAD Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical I MISS YOU AND YEARN AFTER YOU Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical I PUT HERE, MY LAZY GIRL, THIS SOFT CUSHION Last Line: And if, with your blouse off, in your soft arms Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical I THINK THAT SOMEONE WILL REMEMBER US IN ANOTHER TIME Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical I WAS IN LOVE WITH YOU, ATIS, ONCE, LONG AGO Last Line: To me you seemed a little girl, and not too graceful Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical I WILL LET MY BODY Last Line: Flow like water over the gentle cushions Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical I WISH THE CHILD Last Line: Many a joy Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical I WISH TO GO Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical I'VE FOULED THE WEFT, THE WARP, AND THE SHUTTLE Last Line: And by the slender aphrodita Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical IF MY NIPPLES WERE TO DRIP MILK Last Line: Who wears the scent of violets %on her young breasts Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical IF ONLY THEY HAD WOVEN ME SUCH LUCK Last Line: When my cloth was on the loom Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical IF YOU CARE FOR ME Last Line: That is in your eyes Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical IF YOU CARE FOR ME, THEN WIN Last Line: The elder in a llove affair Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical IMMORTAL APHRODITE, ON YOUR PATTERNED THORNE Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical; Women IMPOSSIBLE YET First Line: Impossible for it %to happen, for her Last Line: Of sharing, among all %people, her IN ANSWER TO ALCAEUS First Line: I want to tell you something. Nevertheless, my shame Last Line: Come to me now, you delicate graces and you fairtressed muses Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical IN ANSWER TO ALCAEUS First Line: I want to tell you something, and yet my shame %prevents me...' Last Line: Eyes: you would state your case Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical IN MY EYES HE MATCHES THE GODS, THAT MAN WHO Last Line: But all must be endured, since even a poor Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical IN MY SEASON I USED TO WEAVE LOVE GARLANDS Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical IN THE HOUSE OF THE MUSES' SERVANTS Last Line: Grief is not right. It would not suit us Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical INSCRIPTION ON A WINE JUG First Line: Beside the temple where stone altars Last Line: Fit for her festivities Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical IS FRAGRANT Last Line: Heart Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical ISLAND AIGA Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical IT IS NOT FITTING TO MOURN THE DEAD Last Line: Let us have no mourning here Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical IT SEEMS TO ME THAT MAN IS EQUAL TO THE GODS Last Line: But all can be endured since even a pauper Subject(s): Love IT WAS YOU, ATTHIS, WHO SAID Last Line: But you forget everyhing Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Homosexuality; Love; Mythology - Classical IT WOULD BE WRONG FOR US. IT IS NOT RIGHT Last Line: For mourning to enter a home of poetry Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical JEALOUSY First Line: More happy than the gods is he Last Line: And, losing colour, sense, and breath, %I seem quite languishing in death Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical JUST NOW DAWN IN HER GOLDEN SANDALS Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical JUST WHEN DAWN IN HER GOLDEN SANDALS Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical KYPRIAN AND SEA-DAUGHTERS OF NEREOS Last Line: That he be a delight to all who love him Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical KYPRIS, MAY SHE FIND YOU BITTER TOO Last Line: Coming again this second time Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical LADY DAWN Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical LATO AND NIOBA WERE VERY LOVING FRIENDS Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical LEAD OFF, MY LYRE Last Line: And we shall sing together Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical LEAVE YOUR SIEGE OF HER VIOLET SOFTNESS Last Line: We shall stay awake and sing Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical LEAVING CRETE, COME VISIT AGAIN OUR TEMPLE. Last Line: You know well - rejoicing our golden cups - your %headiest nectar... Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical LET ME WISH THE CHILD OF THE HOUSE OF POLYANAX Last Line: A most good day Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical LETTER TO ANAKTORIA First Line: Like the very gods in my sight is he who Last Line: Death has come near me Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical LIFT HIGH THE ROOF BEAM Last Line: Like ares is he - %bigger far than a man Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical LIFT HIGH THE ROOFBEAM Last Line: Greater for than a mortal man Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical LIKE A CHILD TO HER MOTHER I HAVE FLOWN TO YOU Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical LIKE THE SUCCULENT APPLE THAT BLUSHES Last Line: The applepickers have forgotten-- %not completely - it was %impossible to reach Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical LIKE THE SWEET APPLE THAT REDDENS OF THE TOPMOST BOUGH Last Line: Underfoot, and on the ground the purple blossom Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical LITTLE GIRLS Last Line: Of leaves Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical LONELINESS First Line: Midnight, %and the small hours Last Line: I lie alone Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical LOOM First Line: Talk to me Last Line: Pricks me %with %desire Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical LOST FRIEND First Line: Atthis, our own loved anactoria Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical LOST HEART First Line: I cannot, sweetest mother Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical LOST MAIDENHEAD First Line: As the hyacinth high on the mountains under the shepherds' tread Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical LOVE Poem Text First Line: Love has unbound my limbs and set me shaking Last Line: A monster bitter-sweet and my unmaking. Subject(s): Aphrodite; Love - Erotic; Love; Mythology - Classical LOVE First Line: The wind threshes the mountain oaks Last Line: The mastery that sweetly melts my limbs Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical LOVE - BITTERSWEET, IRREPRESSIBLE Last Line: Yet, atthis, you despise my being. %to chase andromeda, you leave me Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical LOVE STRIKES ME AGAIN, THAT MAKES THE LEGS GIVE WAY Last Line: That sweet-bitter, not-to-be-fought-with shape LOVE, I AM GRATEFUL First Line: That you came, it was good Last Line: Since we parted LOVE, LET THE WIND CRY ON THE DARK MOUNTAIN Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical LOVES Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical LOVING GIRLS MORE THAN GELLO Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical LUCKY BRIDEGROOM Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical; Women LYRIC; THREE VERSIONS: 1 First Line: The moon has set Last Line: And I lie here alone Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical; Solitude LYRIC; THREE VERSIONS: 2 First Line: The moon has set Last Line: I sleep alone Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical; Solitude LYRIC; THREE VERSIONS: 3 First Line: The pleiades disappear Last Line: Sleepless, I lie alone Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical; Solitude MAID UNWED First Line: As the sweet apple reddens, high up against the sky Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical MAIDENHOOD, MAIDENHOOD, / WHERE HAVE YOU GONE Last Line: Never afain shall I come %to you. Never again Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical MAIDENS Last Line: So that we may look on less sleep than does the %clearvoiced nightingale Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical MARRIAGE OF HECTOR AND ANDROMACHE First Line: Crying asia! That famous place Last Line: Are like two of the gods together Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical MARRIAGE OF HEKTOR AND ANDROMACHE First Line: Cyprus %the herald came Last Line: Neither the honey %nor the bee Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical MAY THE WINDS AND WORRIES BEAR OFF THE ONE WHO Last Line: Blames me in my anguish Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical MAY YOU SLEEP Last Line: Of a tender friend Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical MAY YOU SLEEP UPON YOUR GENTLE COMPANION'S BREAST Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical ME AWAY FROM THEM Last Line: The guard corporal %wrestling Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical MEDEIA Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical MERMAIDS AND YOU BRINE-BORN ON THE KYPROS SAND Last Line: Put away the evil Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical MIKA Last Line: Dewfall upon the world Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical MINGLED WITH COLORS OF EVERY KIND Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical MINNIE, I CANNA CAA MY WHEEL Last Line: Amang derk ghaists stravaigan sichtlesslie Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical MISTRESS DAWN Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical MITYLENE ON RETURN FROM EXILE First Line: We round machaera in in one eager sweep Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical MNAISIDKIA, LOVELIER Last Line: Of the tender flesh Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical MOON First Line: The stars %that circle Last Line: At the full Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical MOON APPEARED IN ALL HER FULLNESS Last Line: And so the women stood around the altar Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical MOON HAS DRIFTED OFF Last Line: And the pleiades. In the middle %of night, hour slides into hour. %I drift alone asleep Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical MOON HAS GONE Last Line: I lie alone Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical MOON HAS SET Last Line: Time passes, time passes, and I lie alone Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical MOON HAS SET, AND THE PLEIADES Last Line: Alone in my bed Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical MOON HATH LEFT THE SKY Last Line: But on my couch alone I lie Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical MORE HARMONIOUS THAN LYRES Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical MORE SWEETLY TUNED Last Line: And more golden %than gold Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical MORE VALUABLE THAN GOLD Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical MOST BEAUTIFUL OF ALL THE STARS Last Line: You bring the child back to her mother Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical; Spiritual Life; Venus (planet); Women And Religion MOTHER, I CANNOT MIND MY WHEEL Poem Text First Line: Sweet mother, let the weaving be Last Line: I long for my young love. Subject(s): Aphrodite; Love - Erotic; Love; Mythology - Classical MOTHER, I CANNOT WEAVE First Line: Mother, sweet mother, I cannot weave Last Line: Slender aphrodite overpowered me with joy, %stole my heart to give to a boy Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical MUSES, COME DOWN AGAIN Last Line: Leaving that golden Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical MY ATTHIS, ALTHOUGH OUR DEAR ANAKTORIA Last Line: For the night's many tongues %carry her cry across the sea Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical MY DAUGHTER KLEIS First Line: I have a beautiful daughter who is Last Line: The whole lovely island of lesbos MY MOTHER First Line: When she was young it was the style Last Line: Now she wears sleek hair coifed by an artist %from sardis where hairdressers are the smartest Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical MY MOTHER ALWAYS SAID Last Line: Colorful ribbons from sardis-- %but a garland of fresh flowers Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical MY MOTHER USED TO SAY Last Line: Where shall I get one Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical MY MUSE, WHAT AILS THIS ARDOUR Last Line: I should so rashly ripp up Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical NEAR ME Last Line: Girls ( %around Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical NEIGHBORS OF THE GENTLE MOON STARS Last Line: Appear in a fluster to disappear %whenever she rises fully revealed %bathing the earth in silver lig Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical NEVER YET, O IRANA, HAVE I FOUND Last Line: Anyone more vexing than you Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical NEVER, IRANA, HAVE I MET ANYBODY Last Line: More bothersome than you Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical NIGHT Poem Text First Line: The moon is gone Last Line: Alone I lie. Subject(s): Aphrodite; Love - Erotic; Love; Mythology - Classical; Night; Bedtime NIGHTINGALE First Line: The lovers' nightingale Last Line: The clamorous angel of the spring Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical NO OBLIVION First Line: Someone, I will tell you Last Line: Will remember us NOT EVEN Last Line: Longing %pleased Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical NOT ONE GIRL, I THINK, WILL EVER LOOK ON THE SUNLIGHT Last Line: Of another time who has such talent as this one does Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical NOTHING CAN TAKE ITS PLACE IN MY MIND Last Line: This beauty of girls Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical NOTICE First Line: The gods come %straightaway Last Line: To the tearless Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical NOW LETO AND NIOBE WERE VERY DEAR COMPANIONS Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical NOW THAT ANDROMEDA HAS HER FAIR REPLY Last Line: Psappho, why aphrodita of so many pleasures? Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical NOW TO DELIGHT MY WOMEN FRIENDS Last Line: I'll make a beautiful song of this affair Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical O ADONIS! Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical O BEAUTIFUL, O GRACEFUL Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical O BEAUTIFUL, O GRACEFUL GIRL Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical O DREAM ON YOUR DARK WINGS Last Line: But may I have %them all Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical O HESPERUS! THOU BRINGEST ALL THINGS HOME Last Line: Thou bring'st the child, too, to his mother's side Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical O POLLYANNA Last Line: Good-bye, good bye Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical O SAPPHO, I LOVE YOU Last Line: And even in acheron you Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical O THERE ARE NO OTHERS LIKE HER Last Line: Not in these times, lover Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical O YOU ROSY-ARMED GRACES, HALLOWED DAUGHTERS OF ZEUS, BE HERE! Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical OBLIVION First Line: Sans record %sans regret Last Line: In the house of dis Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical OBSESSION First Line: He is equal Last Line: Panicked, I think %I'm about to die Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical ODE First Line: Like a god I reckon the man to be who Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical ODE TO ANACTORIA First Line: Peer of gods he seemeth to me, the blissful Last Line: Caught by pains of menacing death, I falter %lost in the love-trance Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical ODE TO ANACTORIA First Line: That man seems to me peer of gods Last Line: But I must dare all, since one so poor Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical ODE TO APHRODITE First Line: Aphrodite, splendour-enthroned, undying Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical ODE TO APHRODITE (1) First Line: Glittering-throned undying aphrodite Last Line: Have done, do for me queen, and let thyself too %be my great ally Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical ODE TO APHRODITE (2) First Line: Splendor-throned queen, immortal aphrodite Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical OF DORIKHA Last Line: To be half asleep with love Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical OF EROS, ANXIOUS Last Line: To make it last all night long Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical OF THE MUSES Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical OH, MY SWEET MOTHER, 'TIS IN VAIN Last Line: Is now to flit with unknown ghosts in cold and nameless gloom Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical OLD AGE First Line: Of course I am downcast and tremble Last Line: Of her who is wandering Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical OLD LOVE IS BEST First Line: Of all that the world holds, some deem the fairest Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical ON THE THRONE OF MANY HUES, IMMORTAL APHRODITE Last Line: To have fulfilled, fulfill, and you %be my ally Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical; Spiritual Life; Women And Religion ON YOUR DAZZLING THRONE, APHRODITE Last Line: From fearful agony. Labor %for my mad heart, and be %my ally Variant Title(s): To Aphrodite: Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical ON YOUR THRONE, A MARVEL OF ART, IMMORTAL. Last Line: Shoulder to shoulder Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical ONCE UPON A TIME, THE STORY GOES Last Line: Leda found a hyacinthine egg Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical ORCHARD First Line: Cool water among apple boughs Last Line: Sleep falling from quicksilver leaves Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical OUTSIDE THE WINDOW First Line: We virgins will spend all night long Last Line: And we'll see less sleep tonight than %the bright-voiced nightingale OVER THE EYES NIGHT'S BLACK SLUMBER Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical PAIN PENETRATES First Line: My drop Last Line: By drop Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical; Pain PARALYSIS First Line: Mother darling, I can't work the loom Last Line: And broken me with desire for a boy Variant Title(s): Mother Darling, I Cannot Work The Loo Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical PARTHENIA, PARTHENIA Last Line: Nowhere near you Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical PARTING Poem Text First Line: Truly I want to die Last Line: And royal ointment on my hair you shed.' Subject(s): Aphrodite; Love - Erotic; Farewell; Love; Mythology - Classical; Parting PEER OF THE GODS IS THAT MAN, WHO Last Line: Than dry grass and lack little %of dying Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical PEERS Last Line: Gods %shameful Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical PERCUSSION, SALT AND HONEY Last Line: Who stalks on all fours %like a beast Subject(s): Aphrodite; Cupid; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical PERCUSSION, SALT AND HONEY Last Line: Snake-sly, invincible Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical PHRASE REMEMBERED BY ARISTIDES Last Line: Brightness that strikes the eyes Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical PLACE THERE THE NATURE OF THE VIOLET BREASTED Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical PLACES SUCCESS ON YOUR LIPS Last Line: Has made of the sun's brightness and beauty my fortune Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical PLEASE ABANTHIS, YOUR SAPPHO CALLS YOU Last Line: Our lady of cyprus, %for praying Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical PLEASE, MY GODDESS, GOLDENCROWNED APHRODITE Last Line: Let this very lot fall to me Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical POIKILOTHRON Poem Text First Line: All-ador'd, all glorious aphrodita Last Line: Victory with me. Subject(s): Aphrodite; Love - Erotic; Love; Mythology - Classical PRAYER FOR CHARAXOS First Line: Cypris and you nereids, bring my brother Last Line: To his sister, let him consent to do her %honor, just this once, and her cruel sorrow Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical PRAYER TO APHRODITE First Line: Eternal aphrodite, zeus's daughter, throne Last Line: Goddess, do it. No one could resist if you were %fighting beside me Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical PRAYER TO APHRODITE First Line: On your dappled throne, eternal Last Line: And fill my heart with fire. Stand near, %and be my ally PRAYER TO APHRODITE AND THE SEA NYMPHS TO PROTECT HER BROTHER.... First Line: Cypris and sea nymphs, I beg you Last Line: Your anger and liberate him from %more sorry? PRETTY Last Line: Artemis Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical PURE AND HOLY GRACES AND MUSES WHO LIVE AT PIERIA Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical QUICKLY RIGHT NOW First Line: You were once a tender child Last Line: Keep their way. We mortals have no %road to high olympos RAISE THE RIDGE-POLE HIGHER, HIGHER Last Line: And he can't get it through the door Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical REBUKE First Line: Therefore thou wouldst mingle with those and grieve me Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical RECALLING A LETTER ATTHIS WROTE ME First Line: Sappho, if you don't come out of your room, %I swear I'll stop loving you Last Line: Can you now forget all these days? RETURN, GONGYLA First Line: Your lovely face. %when absent Last Line: Again: you whom of all women %I most desire Variant Title(s): O Gongyla, My Darling Ros Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical ROSE Last Line: Sweat Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical ROSE First Line: If jove would give the leafy flowers Last Line: It blushes a diviner ray Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Flowers; Love; Mythology - Classical ROUND ABOUT ME Poem Text First Line: Round about me hum the winds of autumn Last Line: Spreads as a river. Subject(s): Aphrodite; Love - Erotic; Love; Mythology - Classical SAPHO'S ODE OUT OF LONGINUS First Line: The gods are not more blest than he Last Line: I sigh, I tremble, and I dye Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical SAPPHICS Poem Text First Line: All the night sleep came not upon my eyelids Last Line: Hearing, to hear them. Subject(s): Aphrodite; Dreams; Love - Erotic; Love; Mythology; Mythology - Classical; Sleep; Nightmares SAPPHO TO PHAON Poem Text First Line: Say, lovely youth, that dost my heart command Last Line: And either cease to live, or cease to love! Subject(s): Aphrodite; Love - Erotic; Love; Mythology - Classical SAPPHO, I LOVED YOU First Line: Andromeda %forgot, %and I too %blamed you Last Line: Even in hades %I am with you Variant Title(s): Andromeda / Forgot / And I To Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical SAPPHO, IF YOU DO NOT COME OUT Last Line: Among her daughters. Dearest atthis, %can you nog forget all those days? Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical SAPPHO, WHY DO YOU SUMMON APHRODITE Last Line: Andromeda certainly has her fair return Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical SAPPHO: A GARLAND First Line: Artfully adorned aphrodite, deathless Last Line: Happen - make it happen. And stand beside me, %goddess, my ally Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical SARD(IS Last Line: I shall come Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical SARDIS Last Line: Rises over the sea that spreads between us Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical SARDIS, / WHERE OFTEN SHE TURNS HER THOUGHT Last Line: Desire gnaws at her tender heart Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical SCHOLAR ARISTIDES, PONDERING Last Line: I shall be remembered Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical SEIZURE First Line: To me that man equals a god Last Line: I must suffer everything, being poor Subject(s): Aphrodite; Desire; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical SEIZURE First Line: To me he seems like a god Last Line: Yet I must suffer all things, %being poor Subject(s): Aphrodite; Desire; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical SEVEN FATHOMS LONG Last Line: That struggled %to cobble them Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical SEVEN WAYS IN TERROR Last Line: Her beauty %is Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical SHALL GIVE Last Line: The mind %luck Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical SHE CALLS HER DAUGHTER Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical SHE HAD OTHERS AT KYTHEREA TO NURSE HER Last Line: She writes these matters to andromeda Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical SHE TAUGHT THE CHAMPION RUNNER Last Line: Hero of gyara Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical SHE WAS LIKE THAT SWEETEST APPLE Last Line: By shepherd men, its flower purple on the ground Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical SILENCE IN DEATH Poem Text First Line: When death shall close those eyes, imperious dame! Last Line: And snatch a bright eternity from fate. Subject(s): Aphrodite; Love - Erotic; Love; Mythology - Classical SILENCE IN DEATH First Line: Whene'er the fates resume thy breath Last Line: While honour'd sappho's muse-embellish'd name %shall flourish in eternity of fame Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical SILENT, STILL Last Line: Against me green %harsh Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical SINCE WHOMEVER Last Line: Injure me most of all Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical SLENDER GRACES AND MUSES WITH BEAUTIFUL HAIR Last Line: Come hither, come now Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical SLICK WITH SLIME Last Line: And from ( %o girls Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical SODA Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical SOFTER THAN A FINE DRESS Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical SOME PREFER A GLORY OF HORSEMEN; WARSHIPS. Last Line: Far see these than chariots of the king, than %armor in mel ee Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical SOME SAY NOTHING ON EARTH EXCELS IN BEAUTY Last Line: The chariots of all lydia and all their %armoured fighting men Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical SOME SAY THRONGING CAVALRY, SOME SAY FOOT SOLDIERS Last Line: All the troops in lydia in their chariots and %glittering armor Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical SOME THERE ARE WHO SAY THAT THE FAIREST THING SEEN Last Line: Eyes than lydia's chariots in all their glory %armored for battle Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical SOMEONE I TELL YOU WILL REMEMBER US SOMEONE, I TELL YOU Last Line: Yet are always saved %by judgment of good men Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical SOMEONE, I'M BOLD TO SAY Last Line: In time hereafter Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical SOMETIMES SHE CLOSED HER EYES Last Line: All night long Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical SONG FOR THE GODDESS OF LOVE First Line: Leave crete, %aphrodite Last Line: Into our cups, %gold, and raised for the drinking Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Love - Marital; Mythology - Classical SONG OF THE ROSE, FR. ACHILLES TATIUS Poem Text First Line: If zeus chose us a king of the flowers in his mirth Last Line: As they laugh to the wind as it laughs from the west! Subject(s): Aphrodite; Love - Erotic; Holidays; Love; Mythology - Classical; Trees SONNET 27 First Line: Oh! Ye bright stars! That on the ebon fields Last Line: Ah! Who would wish to feel, or learn to love? Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical SPECIMEN OF SAPPHO'S POETRY First Line: Did jove a queen of flowers decree Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical SPRING Last Line: On the banks of acheron Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical SPRING'S MESSENGER, THE LOVELY VOICED NIGHTINGALE Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical STAND BESIDE ME, WORSHIPED HERA, STRANGE IN A DREAM Last Line: Virgins ( %around Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical STAR OF EVENING First Line: Hesperus %you bring Last Line: Home the mothers' darling Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical; Venus (planet) STARS AROUND THE LOVELY MOON Last Line: Over the earth her radiant glow Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical STARS AROUND THE LUMINOUS MOON - HOW SOON THEY Last Line: Glamors the landscape... Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical; Stars STARS AROUND THE MOON IN HER BEAUTY Last Line: From our sight Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical STAYING Last Line: To say this Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical SUPREME SIGHT ON THE BLACK EARTH First Line: Some say cavalry and others claim Last Line: The chariots in lydia and foot soldiers armored %in glittering bronze Variant Title(s): Some Say Cavalry And Others Clai Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical SURELY ONCE YOU TOO WERE A DELICATE CHILD Last Line: For there is no pathway up great olympos %for humankind Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical SWALLOW, SWALLOW Last Line: Why me, why me? Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical SWEET MOTHER, I CAN'T WEAVE MY WEB Last Line: Because of slender aphrodite.' Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical SWEETPEAS FLOWERED GOLDEN Last Line: All over the marsh Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical SWEETVOICED GIRL Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical TENDER GIRL PICKING FLOWERS Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical TENDERER THAN THE ROSE Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical THANK YOU, MY DEAR Last Line: While you were gone Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical THAT LABOR Last Line: Thus I pray %that %I long Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical THAT LABOR Last Line: I long Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical THAT MAN IS PEER OF THE GODS, WHO Last Line: Paler than grass and lack little of dying Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Jealousy; Love; Mythology - Classical; Passion THAT MAN SEEMS TO HER Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical THAT MAN SEEMS TO ME TO BE A GOD Last Line: Is, and I am, as far as I can see, %almost dead Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical THE DUST OF TIMAS Poem Text First Line: This dust was timas; and they say Last Line: They cut them off with sharpened shears. Subject(s): Aphrodite; Love - Erotic; Love; Mythology - Classical THE MOON Poem Text First Line: Bright stars, around the fair selene peering Last Line: Floods the world over. Subject(s): Aphrodite; Love - Erotic; Love; Mythology - Classical THE MOON HAS VEIL'D HER SILVER LIGHT THE NIGHTINGALE Poem Text First Line: The dear good angel of the spring Last Line: The nightingale. Subject(s): Aphrodite; Love - Erotic; Love; Mythology - Classical THE PLEIADS NOW NO MORE ARE SEEN THE WEEPING PLEIADS WESTER THEN First Line: In gold sandals Last Line: Dawn like a thief %fell upon me Variant Title(s): In Gold Sandal Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical; Night THEN I SAID TO THE ELEGANT LADIES Last Line: Now that you are leaving the city, %love's shapr pain encircles my heart Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical THEN LOVE SHOOK MY HEART LIKE THE WIND THAT FALLS ON Last Line: Oaks in the mountains Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical THERE A BOWL OF AMBROSIA Last Line: For everything good for the groom Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical THERE A BOWL OF AMBROSIA Last Line: And made libations, praying all good things %for the groom Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical THERE ARE NONE LIKE HER Last Line: With an intelligence like hers Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical THERE OUGHT NOT TO BE / THRENODIES IN Last Line: Be fitting for us Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical THERE'S A MAN, I REALLY BELIEVE, COMPARES WITH. Last Line: Well, endure is all I can do, reduced to... Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical THERE'S SOMETHING I WANT TO SAY Last Line: In shame; you'd state your claim Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical THESE ARE THE ASHES OF TIMAS Last Line: To lay on the grave Subject(s): Aphrodite; Death; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical THESE ARE TIMAS'S ASHES: ON THE THRESHOLD OF HER MARRIAGE Last Line: To the long locks of their lovely hair and laid them on this grave Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical THESE PLEASURES NOW, MY CONSTANT GIRLS Last Line: I shall sing in splendid songs Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical THEY GAVE ME HONOR Last Line: The gift of their skill Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical THEY HAVE HONORED ME WITH THE GIFT OF Last Line: Their works Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical THEY WORE RED YARN TO BIND THEIR HAIR Last Line: These memories. Know that our name is gone Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical THIS DUST WAS TIMAS'; ERE HER BRIDAL HOUR Last Line: Cut with sharp steel their locks, the strewments for the dead Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical THIS IS THE DUST OF TIMIAS Last Line: Their lovely hair with bright sharp bronze Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical THOSE DISCORDS Last Line: Will reach the sky Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical THOUGH IT ISN'T EASY FOR US TO RIVAL Last Line: Goddesses in the loveliness of their figures Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical THOUGH YOU ARE MY LOVER Last Line: I could not bear to be the older Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical THREE LETTERS TO ANAKTORIA First Line: I set that man above the gods and heroes Last Line: The time is gone %I lie alone Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical THRONED IN SPLENDOUR, DEATHLESS, O APHRODITE Last Line: Accomplish all those things my heart desires to be done; appear %and stand at my shoulder Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical THROWS PEACE INTO TURMOIL Last Line: For day is near Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical TIL ANAKTORIA First Line: Maik o the gods he seems to me Last Line: Greener nor gerss, in sic a dwalm %I kenna wha I am Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical; Scottish Translations TO A BRIDE Poem Text First Line: Blest beyond earth's bliss, with heaven I deem him Last Line: Almost as dead. Subject(s): Aphrodite; Love - Erotic; Love; Mythology - Classical TO A BRIDE First Line: Blest like the gods he seems to me Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical TO A LADY WHO LAUGHED AT POETRY First Line: You have no time for poetry Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical TO A RICH UNCULTURED WOMAN First Line: Dead you shall lie, for ever, a name that none recall Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical TO ALCAEUS First Line: Were you desiring good and fair Last Line: But you had pled your plea outright Subject(s): Alcaeus (6th-7th Century B.c.); Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Man-woman Relationships; Mythology - Classical; Women's Rights TO AN UNCULTIVATED WOMAN First Line: Ever dead shalt thou lie under the earth; none shall remember thee Last Line: Wand'ring, flitting amidst shades without fame, unhonoured there as here Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical TO ANDROMEDA First Line: That country girl has witched your wishes Last Line: And she hasn't got the sense %to hitch her rags above her ankles Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical TO APHRODITE Poem Text First Line: Immortal on thy many-splendoured throne Last Line: Be thou to me. Subject(s): Aphrodite; Love - Erotic; Love; Mythology - Classical TO APHRODITE First Line: Aphrodite, daughter of zeus, undying Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical TO APHRODITE First Line: Aphrodite, child of zeus Last Line: Let my soul stay untouched. %keep my spirit yours, uncrushed Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical TO APHRODITE: 2 First Line: All the while %I prayed Last Line: Our night would last %twice as long Variant Title(s): All The While, Believe Me, I Praye Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical TO ATTHIS Poem Text First Line: I loved you, atthis, once, long, long ago Last Line: You seemed to me a small, ungainly child. Subject(s): Aphrodite; Love - Erotic; Love; Love - Age Differences; Mythology - Classical TO ATTHIS' First Line: Atthis, far from me and dear mnasidika Last Line: I yearn to behold thy delicate soul %to satiate my desire Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical TO CYPRIAN APHRODITE First Line: Summit of the %mountain descending Last Line: Nectar with the gladness of our festivities %and greet this libation Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical TO DIE IS ALL I REALLY WANT Last Line: No meadow ......... Dance %.............. And murmurings %............... Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical TO DIE IS EVIL Last Line: Else they would die Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical TO EROS Last Line: You burn me TO GYRINNO Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical TO ME HE SEEMS LIKE A GOD Last Line: Go close to death %[but must suffer all, being poor] Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical TO ME HE SEEMS LIKE A GOD Last Line: And feel my mind slip as I %go close to death Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Jealousy; Love; Mythology - Classical; Passion TO ME THE MUSES TRULY GAVE Last Line: So let me now get used to life and death %I cannot, shall not be forgot Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Life Change Events; Love; Mythology - Classical TO PHOIBOS THE GOLDENHAIRED WHOM KOIOS' DAUGHTER BORE Last Line: And eros never approaches her Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical TO WHAT SHALL I BEST LIKEN YOU, DEAR BRIDEGROOM? Last Line: Most of all to a slender sapling I liken you Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical TO WHAT, DEAR BRIDEGROOM, SHALL I COMPARE YOU? Last Line: To a tender sapling I can best compare you Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical TO WHOSE EYES? Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical TONIGHT I'VE WATCHED Last Line: In bed alone Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical; Solitude TOO MUCH IS ENOUGH Last Line: Of that girl gorgo Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical TOWARD Last Line: Of the arrows Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical TOWARD YOU BEAUTIFUL GIRLS MY THOUGHTS Last Line: Never alter Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical TRENCH FOR WATERING THE GARDEN Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical TRULY I WISH I WERE DEAD Last Line: You quenched your desire %for tender Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical UNTIL ALL OF YOU ARE WILLING Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical VINES TRELLISED ON POLES Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical VIOLET BREASTED DAUGHTER OF KRONOS Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical VIRGIN First Line: Like a sweet apple reddening on the high Last Line: By men shepherding; lying trampled on the earth %yet blooming purple VIRGINITY, VIRGINITY, WHERE HAVE YOU GONE AND LEFT ME?' Last Line: Never again will I come to you, never again.' Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical VISION First Line: Go so that %we can see Last Line: Which is %our fate Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical WE SHALL GIVE, FATHER SAID Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical WE WILL GIVE HER, HER FATHER SAYS Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical WEAKER THAN WATER Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical WEALTH WITHOUT EXCELLENCE Last Line: The best of blessedness Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical WEALTH WITHOUT MORAL SPLENDOR Last Line: There is no higher fortune Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical WEALTH WITHOUT VIRTUE IS NO HARMLESS NEIGHBOR Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical WEATHERCOCKS First Line: I am conscious %how often Last Line: Most kindly %especially injure me now WEDDING SONG: 1 Poem Text First Line: Maidenhood, o maidenhood Last Line: Never again back to thee. Subject(s): Aphrodite; Love - Erotic; Love; Mythology - Classical; Wedding Song; Epithalamium WEDDING SONG: 2 Poem Text First Line: Bridegroom dear, to what shall I compare thee? Last Line: To a slim green rod best do I compare thee. Subject(s): Aphrodite; Love - Erotic; Love; Mythology - Classical; Slenderness; Wedding Song; Thinness; Epithalamium WELL MAY THE HAPPY YOUTH REJOICE WET HANDKERCHIEF Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical WHAT COUNTRY GIRL Last Line: How to make a dress %come down to her feet? Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical WHEN ANGER SPREADS INSIDE YOU BREAST Last Line: Keep watch against an idly barking tongue Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical WHEN DEATH HAS LAID YOU DOWN AMONG HIS OWN Last Line: Reticent still, with the blind dead, unknown Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical WHEN FURY RAGES IN THE BREAST Last Line: Watch that reiterating tongue Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical WHEN NIGHTLONG SLUMBER CLOSES THEIR EYES Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical WHEN SHE, THE ROUND MOON, ROSE Last Line: They stood in a ring around her altar Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical WHEN SONGS FROM THE HEART Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical WHEN THE PIGEONS' SPIRITS GROW COLD THEY LET THEIR Last Line: Wings droop at their sides Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical WHEN YOU LIE ON A SLAB STRETCHED OUT DEAD Last Line: Even in the corridors of underwood light no %one will notice you strut among the bloodless dead Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical WHERE DO THE BUTLER'S BIG FEET GO? Last Line: Besplendor those important feet Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical WHETHER CYPRUS KEEPS YOU OR PAPHOS OR PANORMOS Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical WHETHER YOU ARE AT KYPROS AND PAPHOS Last Line: Or at panormos Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical WHILE THEY KEPT WATCH AROUND HER Last Line: Lords of the town Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical WHITER BY FAR THAN AN EGG Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical WHITER THAN MILK Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical WHO IS THIS WILD GIRL WITH THE CHARM Last Line: So that the hem is at the ankle Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical WHY, AFTER SO LONG, SHOULD I DREAM Last Line: Of those girlish days? Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical WHY, O IRANA, DOES PANDION'S DAUGHTER THE SWALLOW Last Line: Wake me? Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical WISE IN MANY THINGS Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical WITH EYES LIKE THAT, STAND STILL Last Line: Bold as friends before each other Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical WITH QUICKENED HEART THEY HOVERED Last Line: My heart grows chill Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical WITH THAT ISLAND-BORN Last Line: And all in a dream Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical WITH THE BRIDE THAT HAPPY Last Line: Let the bridegroom rejoice Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical WITH WHAT EYES? Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical WITHOUT GUILE Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical WORD WENT AROUND Last Line: Young beyond acheron Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical WORLD First Line: I could not hope Last Line: To touch the sky %with my two arms Variant Title(s): I Could Not Hop Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical WORMWOOD First Line: It is humiliating Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical WRAPPED UP IN RICH SHAGGY WOOL Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical YEARNING First Line: I wilt in your absence Last Line: As they stamp purple blossoms %into the green grass Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical YOU CAME, AND I WAS MAD TO HAVE YOU Last Line: Your breath cooled my heart that was burning with desire Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical YOU CAME. AND YOU DID WELL TO COME Last Line: Welcome, darling, be blessed three times %for all the hours of our separation Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical YOU HATE ME WHO LOVES YOU, ATTHIS Last Line: And flutter around andromeda Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical YOU HAVE BEGUN TO FORGET ME Last Line: Or do you love some other? Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical YOU HAVE COME, AND DONE Last Line: That burned my heart Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical YOU HAVE FORGOTTEN ME Last Line: Or else you love some other person more than me Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical YOU LAY IN WAIT Last Line: And suddenly: beauty %of your garments Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical YOU MAKE ME HOT Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical YOU SHOWED UP. I WANTED YOU Last Line: Who in a breath chilled me to the marrow Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical YOU TOO, KALLIOPA Last Line: Yourself Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical YOU WERE TO ME THEN A SHY LITTLE GIRL Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical YOU WHO SPURNED ME AND MY SONG First Line: Dead, no thought of you from anyone Last Line: Unseen, and restless there, among the corpses Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical YOU WILL DIE AND NO ONE WILL REMEMBER YOU Last Line: In hades' house, and flutter about %among the dark, not illustrious dead Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical YOUNG BRIDE First Line: Like to the apple reddest-bright Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical YOUR DARLING Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical |
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