28 Pick-Up Lines From Sappho To Use At Pride
With Pride events popping up locally and globally for PoCLGBTQWI (and all the rest of letters in the alphabet), why not try a few pick-up lines from Sappho?
Who knows you might wow your future partner.
It would certainly garner my attention with a head-dress of violet flowers.
Through Sappho’s words we can surmise that she was one fearless human being who understood emphatically the importance of ‘gnosis’.
Gnosis is the Greek philosophical concept to ‘know thyself’ and thus live as thyself regardless of what kind (or unkind) times you may find yourself living in.
She knew herself so well, she is widely regarded one of the first poets to get personal and let us in on her life.
To support this style, she used the pronoun ‘I’ in her lyrics, as oppose to the earlier epic poems of Homer and his perspective of divine inspiration. She would have sung her words while playing a lyre.
In this list, Sappho’s words have been translated by the fantastically named Aaron Poochigian from Stung With Love with a foreword by Carol Ann Duffy.
Happy Pride to everyone where-ever you are.
And now over to Sappho…
1 Come close
2 He is unrivalled, like a Lesbian
3 The leaves drip slumber
4 Lust has crushed my spirit
5 But come as often, on request
6 Your nectar with pure festal glee / Fill gilded bowls and pass them round / Lavishly
7 And you, sublime and smiling with immortal mirth
8 What was my mad heart dreaming of?
9 She who shuns love will soon pursue it
10 Come to me now
11 Come, please, and in this battle stand at my side
12 Come, girls , beat your fists / Down upon your breasts / And shred your dresses
13 Come close, you precious Graces and Muses
14 That impossible predator / Eros the Limb-Loosener
15 Like a gale smiting an oak
16 Eros with a stroke, shattered my brain
17 That fellow strikes me as god’s double
18 The revelation flutters, my ventricles, my sternum and stomach
19 We have both suffered terribly. But Sappho, it is hard to say goodbye.
20 With fleecy sheets and yielding cushions
21 My heart is lenient
22 Over eyelids dark night fell. Invisible.
23 Stand and face me, dear; release / That fineness in your irises
24 Neither the honey nor the bee / For me
25 The good man will in time be gorgeous too.
26 Your tongue were keen to utter in hot haste
27 Her ankles, captivates you with her charm?
28 Yes, we did many things, then… – all Beautiful
Read more of Sappho’s words translated by Aaron Poochigian see Stung with Love: Poems and Fragments published by Penguin Random House.
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“The good man will in time be gorgeous too” – I like that one. This actually fascinates me, as geezers (apparently I am one) use bizarre lines across dating sites. I really must apologise for the behaviour of some man blokes, it’s very embarrassing the way that oddball sect are. There’s also the “softboi” phenomenon that’s sprung up.
How did it work 1,000 years ago? Words? “Get thine cloak, lady, you shall have pullethed?” Marvellous.
Yes I like that one too. However I think some men then react negatively to being told that they have to be good to get rewards in life. To be honest I think that applies to everyone not just men 🙂
I think Santa set the foundations there. I always get my Christmas presents. Even if it was just a sack of charcoal last time out.
Who are the softbois? Is just a rebranding of bed-wetters, or emos, or goths? To put down any man that shows his soft side?
PS Did you see my message about asking your permission to reblog your Wikipedia post? I loved it. Full headline credits and will share across all my networks so you should see a bump in interested readers fingers crossed.
Ignore soiftbois, that way they can’t latch on to you. Although there is a very funny Instagram account lambasting them from a Manchester lady called Beam Me Up Softboi. Worth a follow.
I did see that! You’re most welcome to reblog it, as I mentioned in MY RESPONSE to thee. Just depends if you can, I turned off reblogging due to spammers and now can’t find the option again.
The lady who runs that is awesome, full of youthful optimism and silly humour. Tis a joy to behold. Innit.
Cool. I didn’t see your response! Thank you 🙂
God bless her lenient, luscious heart!
Aw yes. She is tremendous.
Because once on a time you were young / sing of what is taking place / talk to us for a spell, confer / your special grace
Well done
Thanks. It was interesting to research.