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Mother, I Cannot Mind My Wheel

by Sappho

Sappho

Mother, I cannot mind my wheel;
My fingers ache, my lips are dry;
Oh! if you felt the pain I feel!
But oh, who ever felt as I!




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I think it better that in times like these a poets mouth be silent, for in truth we have no gift to set a statesman right

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