Sappho — "The moon has set, and the Pleiades; it is midnight, and time passes, and I sleep…"
The moon has set, and the Pleiades; it is midnight, and time passes, and I sleep alone.
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From a lyric poem, Fragment 168 (or 10A), expressing loneliness.
Date: c. 7th-6th Century BCE
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