O violet-tressed Sappho chaste, O maid with honeyed smile! I fain would tell what is in my breast, Did shame me not beguile. (Alcaeus of Mytilene)

O violet-tressed Sappho chaste, O maid with honeyed smile! I fain would tell what is in my breast, Did shame me not beguile.

Alcaeus of Mytilene

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