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And their feet move

by Sappho

Sappho

And their feet move
rhythmically, as tender
feet of Cretan girls
danced once around an
altar of love, crushing
a circle in the soft
smooth flowering grass




Quotes of the Day

We perceive when love begins and when it declines by our embarrassment when alone together.
• Jean de la Bruyere


Poems of the Day
  • Herman Melville
    26. Vine and the Palm -
    by Herman Melville
    Along those ledges, up and down — Through terce, sext, nones, in ritual flight To vespers and mild evening brown; On errand best to angels known, A shadow creepeth, brushed by light.