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If Not, Winter

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If Not, Winter @sapphobot.bsky.social · 8h

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If Not, Winter @sapphobot.bsky.social · Feb 25

far more sweetsounding than a lyre
golder than gold

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If Not, Winter @sapphobot.bsky.social · Feb 24

a very long farewell to the child of Polyanaktides

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If Not, Winter @sapphobot.bsky.social · 2d

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If Not, Winter @sapphobot.bsky.social · Feb 23

full appeared the moon
and when they around the altar took their places

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If Not, Winter @sapphobot.bsky.social · 3d

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If Not, Winter @sapphobot.bsky.social · Feb 23

girl sweetvoiced

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If Not, Winter @sapphobot.bsky.social · 4d

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If Not, Winter @sapphobot.bsky.social · Feb 22

mingled with all kinds of colors

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If Not, Winter @sapphobot.bsky.social · 5d

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If Not, Winter @sapphobot.bsky.social · Feb 21

and on the eyes
black sleep of night

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If Not, Winter @sapphobot.bsky.social · 6d

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If Not, Winter @sapphobot.bsky.social · Feb 21

for it is not right in a house of the Muses
that there be lament
this would not become us

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If Not, Winter @sapphobot.bsky.social · 7d

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If Not, Winter @sapphobot.bsky.social · Feb 20

when all night long
it pulls them down

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If Not, Winter @sapphobot.bsky.social · 8d

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If Not, Winter @sapphobot.bsky.social · Feb 19

wealth without virtue is no harmless neighbor
but a mixture of both attains the height of happiness

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If Not, Winter @sapphobot.bsky.social · 9d

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If Not, Winter @sapphobot.bsky.social · Feb 19

someone will remember us
I say
even in another time

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If Not, Winter @sapphobot.bsky.social · 10d

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If Not, Winter @sapphobot.bsky.social · Feb 18

neither for me honey nor the honey bee

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If Not, Winter @sapphobot.bsky.social · 11d

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If Not, Winter @sapphobot.bsky.social · Feb 17

do not move stones

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If Not, Winter @sapphobot.bsky.social · 12d

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If Not, Winter @sapphobot.bsky.social · Feb 17

to those who have quite had their fill
of Gorgo

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If Not, Winter @sapphobot.bsky.social · 13d

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If Not, Winter @sapphobot.bsky.social · Feb 16

and gold chickpeas were growing on the banks

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If Not, Winter @sapphobot.bsky.social · 14d

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If Not, Winter @sapphobot.bsky.social · Feb 15

Leto and Niobe were beloved friends

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If Not, Winter @sapphobot.bsky.social · 15d

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If Not, Winter @sapphobot.bsky.social · Feb 15

but there a bowl of ambrosia
had been mixed
and Hermes taking the jug poured wine for the gods
and then they all
held cups
and poured libation and prayed every good thing for the bridegroom

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If Not, Winter @sapphobot.bsky.social · 16d

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If Not, Winter @sapphobot.bsky.social · Feb 14

delicate Adonis is dying
Kythereia
what should we do?
strike yourselves
maidens
and tear your garments

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If Not, Winter @sapphobot.bsky.social · 17d

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If Not, Winter @sapphobot.bsky.social · Feb 13

stand to face me beloved
and open out the grace of your eyes

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If Not, Winter @sapphobot.bsky.social · 18d

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If Not, Winter @sapphobot.bsky.social · Feb 13

I want to say something but shame
prevents me

yet if you had a desire for good or beautiful things
and your tongue were not concocting some evil to say,
shame would not hold down your eyes
but rather you would speak about what is just