“And my tongue stiffens into silence,
thin flames underneath my skin prickle and spark,
a rush of blood booms in my ears, and then my eyes go dark.”
~ Sappho ~
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Thanks…sublime feelings that go back some 2500 years…
“We are oppressed by fears of oblivion, always we are saved by the judgement of good men…” Sappho
I have always thought that it is such a shame that so little of her writings have been preserved…
For sure, I have a volume of collected essays that features her and her works, in civil disobediences, https://www.thriftbooks.com/w/civil-disobediences-poetics-and-politics-in-action_lisa-birman/938740/item/7080223/?gclid=CjwKCAiAuOieBhAIEiwAgjCvcpJwLp67scnG9J5Wx95HcJblARN4bWOuKlpzgtP-0auM7hCNThMPNxoC04IQAvD_BwE#idiq=7080223&edition=4935431
“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.” ~ Sappho