Monday, September 8, 2008

time spins away

"...They say Dawn, dazzled by love, took Tithonus
in her rose arms to the utter end of the earth..."

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"...The moon has set and
the Pleiades, Middle
of the night, time spins
away and I lie alone..."

Sappho
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3 comments:

  1. AnonymousSeptember 8, 2008 at 1:21 PM

    Lovely quotes, Sherry.

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  2. CosmictreeSeptember 9, 2008 at 1:08 AM

    you like?
    Here is more from her:

    He seems to me as fortunate as the Gods that man
    who opposite you
    sits and listens close
    to your sweet speaking

    and lovely laughing -- oh it
    makes the wings of my heart flutter within my chest
    for when I look at you, a moment, then no speaking
    is left in me.


    No, my tongue breaks, and thin
    fire is racing under my skin
    in my eyes no sight and drumming fills my ears


    and cold sweat holds me and shaking
    grips me all over; I am paler than grass
    and dead or little short of it
    is how I feel.

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  3. AnonymousSeptember 9, 2008 at 6:02 PM

    Beautiful sapphic poetry of longing,

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