Sappho Professions : Lyric poet Born : 625 BC Died : 571 BC Browse All Authors Top 52 quotes by Sappho Experience shows us Wealth unchaperoned by Virtue is never an innocuous neighbor. Sappho wealth virtue responsibility Eros seizes and shakes my very soul like the wind on the mountain Sappho sexy soul wind I do not know what to do, my mind's in two. Sappho mind knows two Without warning as a whirlwind swoops on an oak Love shakes my heart Sappho warning heart love Builders, raise the ceiling high, Raise the dome into the sky, Hear the wedding song! For the happy groom is near, Tall as Mars, and statelier, Hear the wedding song! Sappho mars sky song If you are squeamish Sappho rubble ifs beach I will let my body flow like water over the gentle cushions. Sappho flow body water Raise high the roof-beam, carpenters. Like Ares comes the bridegroom, taller far than a tall man. Sappho beam roof men The moon has set In a bank of jet That fringes the Western sky, The pleiads seven Have sunk from heaven And the midnight hurries by; My hopes are flown And, alas! alone On my weary couch I lie. Sappho moon sky lying The Moon and Pleiades have set, / Midnight is nigh, / The time is passing, passing, yet / Alone I lie. Sappho moon night lying Would Jove appoint some flower to reign, in matchless beauty on the plain, the Rose (mankind will all agree). The Rose the queen of flowers should be. Sappho queens flower rose The moon is setand the Pleiades; Middle ofthe night, time passes by,I lie alone. Sappho moon night lying Similar Authors Ibycus lyric-poet Simonides of Ceos lyric-poet All Authors