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Once more Love stirs me up, the limb-loosener, a creature bitter-sweet, baffling. – Sappho
Index
Sappho
- Fragment 31: ‘He seems to me the peer of gods’
- Fragment 2: ‘Come down from the sky ...’
- Fragment 1: ‘Intricately adorned with flowers’
- Fragment 94: ‘ “I'm not pretending; I wish I were dead.” ’
- Fragment 96: ‘[She thought] you were like a goddess revealed’
- Fragment 16: ‘Some say it's a force of cavalry’
- Fragment 58a: ‘The Muses, scattering violets from their skirts’
- Fragment 58b: ‘But I love the richness of things ...’
- Fragment 47: ‘Love shook my senses’
- Fragment 130: ‘Once more Love stirs me up’
- Fragment 95: ‘A longing grips me’
- Fragment 104a: ‘O Evening Star’
- Fragment 105a: ‘... like the reddening apple’
- Fragment 55: ‘You shall lie there, woman, when you are dead’
- Fragment 150: ‘For it is not the custom that a funeral song be heard’
Other poets
- Anacreon: Fragment 358: ‘Golden-haired Eros’
- Nossis: Epigram: ‘ “Nothing is sweeter than love” ’
- Erinna: The Spindle: Lament for Baucis
- Catullus: Lament for a Sparrow
- Martial: Epigram on Philaenis [Obscenity warning]
- Martial: Epigram on Bassa [Obscenity warning]
- Author unknown: A Woman's Song: To Her Indifferent Lover
- Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz: On the death of that most excellent lady, the Marquise de Mancera
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