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Death is an evil; the gods have so judged; had it been good, they would die. - [Death] How love the limb-loosener sweeps me away. - [Sex] When anger spreads through the breath, guard thy tongue from barking idly. - [Anger] The angel of spring, the mellow-throated nightingale. - fragm. 30 [Nightingales] Hesperus bringing together All that the morning star scattered. - XIV, (translation by Bliss Carmen) [Stars] Sweetest mother, I can weave no more to-day, For thoughts of him come thronging, Him for whom my heart is longing-- For I know not where my weary fingers stray. - Fragment, (J.S. Easby-Smith's translation) [Thought] 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. - Fragment, (J.S. Easby-Smith's translation) [Sky] What is beautiful is good, and who is good will soon also be beautiful. - Fragment (101) [Goodness] 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! - Fragments, (J.S. Easby Smith's translation) [Songs]
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