tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7401522835696926013.post3096588278893626654..comments2023-10-09T07:39:27.187-07:00Comments on So You're 60, Get Over It: Tango and Other AddictionsJoan Moranhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10805983325694304573noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7401522835696926013.post-72492103414908764812010-11-08T21:57:21.709-08:002010-11-08T21:57:21.709-08:00ROSE IS A ROSE IS A ROSE IS A ROSE" SAPPHÓ !!...ROSE IS A ROSE IS A ROSE IS A ROSE" SAPPHÓ !!!<br /> <br />Song of the Rose<br />For Zeus chose us a King of the flowers in his mirth,<br />He would call to the rose, and would royally crown it;<br />For the rose, ho, the rose! is the grace of the earth,<br />Is the light of the plants that are growing upon it!<br />For the rose, ho, the rose! is the eye of the flowers,<br />Is the blush of the meadows that feel themselves fair,<br />Is the lightning of beauty that strikes through the bowers<br />On pale lovers that sit in the glow unaware.<br />Ho, the rose breathes of love! ho, the rose lifts the cup<br />To the red lips of Cypris invoked for a guest!<br />Ho, the rose having curled its sweet leaves for the world<br />Takes delight in the motion its petals keep up,<br />As they laugh to the wind as it laughs from the west.<br /><br />Poem by Sappho, Lesbo, Ereso, 640 a.c.circ. <br /><br /><br />Thanks.casa da poesiahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02788454732868810162noreply@blogger.com