“If you are my friend, stand up before me
and scatter the grace that's in your eyes.”

—  Sappho

Fragment 138 Voigt
The Willis Barnstone translations, To a Handsome Man

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Sappho 16
ancient Greek lyric poet -630–-570 BC

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