<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=513393" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Torments Of Love</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Fragments 84, 45, 82, 36, 38, 37, 40, 80, 50, 55, and 42 combined.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">O Queens of Song, descend from your home.<br>From the golden halls of Olumpus on high!<br>O shell divine, now, now become<br>Voiceful, to utter mine heart's wild cry!<br>O Calliope, vouchsafe thine aid<br>Unto one whom the Muse of Love hath betrayed!<br>Ah me, I know not what to do<br>Who am wildered all, in a strait betwixt two!<br>I cry from a homeless heart storm-tossed<br>As a child for her mother, a young child lost.<br>Yet not after all-unattainable things<br>Do I strain, nor I hope on passion's wings<br>To soar to the heavens' empyreal blue.<br>But oh, I yearn, how I yearn to slake<br>My thirst where Love's feet brush the dew!<br>For he who the strength of the mighty can break,<br>He whose bitter sweetness no tongue may tell,<br>The dragon whose onslaught none may quell,<br>Love — mine whole being doth Love's breath shake.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Ah, sleep I cannot: soft-cushioned bed<br>Wooes never my wearied frame to sleep;<br>No pillow brings rest to my throbbing head.<br>From my couch, as one in a nightmare, I leap.<br>Ever Eros is tossing to and fro<br>My spirit, as when great storm-winds blow<br>O'er a tempest-tormented mountain-steep,<br>And down on its groaning oak-woods sweep;<br>So groaneth my spirit, love-scourged so.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Sappho">Sappho</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=513393" data-title="The Torments Of Love de Sappho" data-description="Fragments 84, 45, 82, 36, 38, 37, 40, 80, 50, 55, and 42 combined. O Queens of Song, descend from your home. From the golden halls of Olumpus on high! O shell divine, now, now become Voiceful, to utter mine heart's wild cry! O Calliope, vouchsafe..."></div> </div> </div>

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