Sappho
Sappho
Sapphowas a Greek lyric poet from the island of Lesbos. She was born sometime between 630 and 612 BCE, and it is said that she died around 570 BCE, but little is known for certain about her life. Sappho's poetry was well-known and greatly admired through much of antiquity, and she was considered one of the canon of nine lyric poets. However, most of her poetry is now lost, and survives only in fragmentary form...
NationalityGreek
ProfessionPoet
immortal command breaths
Although only breath, words which I command are immortal.
writing stronger nerves
May I write words more naked than flesh, stronger than bone, more resilient than sinew, sensitive than nerve.
remember another-time
Someone, I tell you, in another time will remember us
famous-love eye grace
Stand and face me, my love,and scatter the grace in your eyes.
evil dies judged
Death is an evil; the gods have so judged; had it been good, they would die.
sexy wind soul
Eros seizes and shakes my very soul like the wind on the mountain shaking ancient oaks.
grief house muse
There is no place for grief in a house which serves the Muse.
long-distance-relationship believe night
All the while, believe me, I prayed our night would last twice as long.
love-is fables fantasy
Love is a cunning weaver of fantasies and fables.
gold dawn thieves
In gold sandals / dawn like a thief / fell upon me.
lying moon sky
The moon has set In a bank of jet That fringes the Western sky, The pleiads seven Have sunk from heaven And the midnight hurries by; My hopes are flown And, alas! alone On my weary couch I lie.
beach rubble ifs
If you are squeamish Don't prod the beach rubble.
limbs
How love the limb-loosener sweeps me away
spring flower earth
Now the Earth with many flowers puts on her spring embroidery