Some celebrate the beauty
of knights, or infantry,
or billowing flortillas
at battle on the sea.
Warfare has it's glory
but I place far above
these military splendors
the one thing that you love.
For proof this contention
examine history:
we all remember Helen,
who left her family,
her child, and royal husband,
to take a stranger's hand:
her beauty had no equal,
but bowed to love's command.
As love then is the power
that none can disobey,
that so my thoughts must follow
my darling far away:
the sparkle of her laughter
would give me greater joy
than all the bronze-clad heroes.
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Sappho's Poems
RomanceI don't usually see books with sapphic poems, even if I do, they're usually not from Sappho so I decided so make this book full of Sappho's amazing poems. Hope you like it!
