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Слушать(AI)Cleis
Sleep, darlingI have a smalldaughter
Cleis, who islike a goldenflower I wouldn'ttake all Croesus'kingdom with lovethrown in, for her—-Don't ask me what to wearI have no embroideredheadband from Sardis togive you,
Cleis, such asI wore and my motheralways said that in herday a purple ribbonlooped in the hair was thoughtto be high style indeedbut we were dark: a girlwhose hair is yellower thantorchlight should wear noheaddress but fresh flowerstranslated by:
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Sappho Sappho
Sappho (c. 630 – c. 570 BCE) was an Archaic Greek poet from the island of Lesbos.[a] Sappho is known for her lyric poetry, written to be sung wh
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