femmealunettes: (stay with me lay with me: Sid&Cassie)
femmealunettes ([personal profile] femmealunettes) wrote2009-02-03 09:45 pm

the one with violets in her lap

when you see this, post your favorite poem.

I am not going to post The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock. (SHOCK.)

24A, C, D; Sappho

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]you will remember
]for we in our youth
      did these things

yes many and beautiful things
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]we live
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the opposite
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daring
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]in a thin voice
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from If Not, Winter: Fragments of Sappho, translated by Anne Carson

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