Love
Sappho: LXXXVI
From Sappho: One Hundred Lyrics (1907)
Love
Love is so strong a thing,
The very gods must yield,
When it is welded fast
With the unflinching truth.
Love is so frail a thing,
A word, a look, will kill.
Oh lovers, have a care
How ye do deal with love.
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From Sappho: One Hundred Lyrics (1907)
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