Sappho, poet
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Sappho

  • 25 Poems & Stories
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About Sappho

c. 600 BCE/GreekThe only contemporary source which refers to Sappho's life is her own body of poetry, and scholars are skeptical of biographical readings of it. Later biographical traditions, from which all more detailed accounts derive, have also been cast into doubt.

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Sleep, darlingI have a small
— Sappho
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He is more than a herohe is a god in my eyes--
— Sappho
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Poetry & Stories

  1. And their feet move

    And their feet moverhythmically, as tender

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  2. He is more than a hero

    He is more than a herohe is a god in my eyes--

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  3. Hymn To Aphrodite

    Throned in splendor, immortal Aphrodite!Child of Zeus, Enchantress, I implore thee

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  4. Awed by her splendor

    Awed by her splendorstars near the lovely

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  5. Evening

    Children astray to their mothers, and goats to the herd,Sheep to the shepherd, through twilight the wings of the bird,

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