lifeinpoetry: In fact, the stars orbiting that irresistible moonSecret away their own luminous formsWhenever she shines without restraintUpon the world entire.  — Sappho, fragment 34, as seen in Icon ed. Amy Scholder Original: Ἄστερες μὲν ἀμφὶ κάλαν σελάνναν/ἂψ ἀπυκρύπτοισι φάεννον εἶδος,ὄπποτα / πλήθοισα μάλιστα λάμπῃγᾶν [ἐπὶ πᾶσαν]… ἀργυρία …