This is a fragment from an excerpts from The Love Songs of Sappho. Sappho's school was dedicated to the teachings of Aphrodite and Eros. All of her poems were focused on love and devotion to the reader and the audience of both men and women. She is one of the few poets who rarely addresses the gods and only and only writes of only love.
To me it seems that man has the fortune
of gods, whoever sits besides you
and close, who listens to you sweetly speaking
and laughing temptingly. My heart.
flutters in my breast whenever
I can quickly glance at you
I can say nothing
my tongue is broken. A delicate fire.
runs under my skis, my eyes
see nothing, my ears roar,
cold sweat
rushes down me, trembling seizes me,
I am greener than gra**.
I myself seem
needing little to die.