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Sappho

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'Yes, we did many things, then — all
Beautiful …'

Lyrical, powerful poems about love, sexuality, sun-soaked Greece and the gods.

Introducing Little Black Classics: 80 books for Penguin's 80th birthday. Little Black Classics celebrate the huge range and diversity of Penguin Classics, with books from around the world and across many centuries. They take us from a balloon ride over Victorian London to a garden of blossom in Japan, from Tierra del Fuego to 16th-century California and the Russian steppe. Here are stories lyrical and savage; poems epic and intimate; essays satirical and inspirational; and ideas that have shaped the lives of millions.

Sappho (c.630–570 BCE). Sappho's Stung with Love is available in Penguin Classics.
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  • Aldair Apodacashared an impressionlast year
    👍Worth reading
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    I can understand the lust and deep sadness in these texts, makes me interested in other translations and in reading the poems in a difrent language.

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    • Feriohas quoted2 days ago
      Because the blessèd Graces grant gifts to the garlanded

      And snub the worshipper with no flowers on her head
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      • Feriohas quoted3 days ago
        She who shuns love soon will pursue it,

        She who scorns gifts will send them still:

        That girl will learn love, though she do it

        Against her will.’

        Come to me now. Drive off this brutal

        Distress. Accomplish what my pride

        Demands. Come, please, and in this battle

        Stand at my side
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        • Aldair Apodacahas quotedlast year
          I declare

          That later on,

          Even in an age unlike our own,

          Someone will remember who we are.
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