“You may forget butlet me tell youthis: someone insome future timewill think of us”

“Someone, I tell you, in another time will remember us.”

“someone will remember us I say even in another time”

“may you sleep on the breast of your delicate friend”

“I have not had one word from herFrankly I wish I were deadWhen she left, she wepta great deal; she said to me, "This parting must beendured, Sappho. I go unwillingly."I said, "Go, and be happybut remember (you knowwell) whom you leave shackled by love"If you forget me, thinkof our gifts to Aphroditeand all the loveliness that we shared"all the violet tiaras,braided rosebuds, dill andcrocus twined around your young neck"myrrh poured on your headand on soft mats girls withall that they most wished for beside them"while no voices chantedchoruses without ours,no woodlot bloomed in spring without song...”

“you burn me”

“I declareThat later on, Even in an age unlike our own,Someone will remember who we are.”