Sappho, If Not, Winter: Fragments Of Sappho Quotes

yet if you had a desire for good or beautiful thingsand your tongue were not concocting some evil to sayshame would not hold down your eyesbut rather you would speak about what is just

their heart grew coldthey let their wings down

In fact she herself once blamed meKyprogeneiabecause I prayed this word:I want.

]sing to usthe one with violets in her lap]mostly]goes astray

Someone will remember us I sayEven in another time

Evening you gather backall that dazzling dawn has put asunder:you gather a lamb, gather a kid, gather a child to its mother.