Sappho - Poems by the Famous Poet - All Poetry Sappho was a Greek lyric poet who hailed from the island of Lesbos Celebrated for her exquisite lyrical compositions , she crafted verses brimming with raw emotion, exploring themes of love, longing, beauty, and the complexities of human relationships
10 of the Best Sappho Poems Everyone Should Read Although only a small amount of her poetry has survived, the ancient Greek poet Sappho (c 630 – c 570 BC) has had a posthumous literary reputation She has become an icon for lyric poets, and, of course, a symbol for homosexual love between women
Sappho | The Poetry Foundation The reception of Sappho's poetry through the past 70 years has been extremely positive, with poets, scholars, publishers, and cultural figures bringing renewed and sustained attention to this ancient poet, for whom so little is known
POEMS OF SAPPHO - University of Houston POEMS OF SAPPHO TRANSLATED BY JULIA DUBNOFF 1 Immortal Aphrodite, on your intricately brocaded throne, [1] child of Zeus, weaver of wiles, this I pray: Dear Lady, don’t crush my heart with pains and sorrows 5 But come here, if ever before, when you heard my far-off cry,
Poetry of Sappho - Wikipedia Sappho was an ancient Greek lyric poet from the island of Lesbos She wrote around 10,000 lines of poetry, only a small fraction of which survives Only one poem is known to be complete; in some cases as little as a single word survives
The Complete Poems of Sappho - inamidst. com This is an attempt to collect Sappho's entire work together in one page — with Greek originals, succinct translations, and commentary When I first searched for Sappho's poems on the web, I found that most sites used out-of-date translations and numberings, with no original Greek
Selections from Sappho - The Center for Hellenic Studies Sappho 115 (via Hephaestion, Handbook on Meters): To what shall I liken you, dear bridegroom, to make the likeness beautiful? To a tender seedling, I liken you to that most of all
The Poems of Sappho Index | Sacred Texts Archive This is a version of the ISTA Sappho poetry collection with the Greek text displayed in Unicode Note that final sigmas are written as medials (all sigmas were lunate sigmas in the source text, but I decided to 'modernize' the orthography slightly)
Sappho - Best Poems In antiquity, Sappho was commonly regarded as one of the greatest lyric poets The surviving proportion of the nine-volume corpus of poetry read in antiquity is small but still constitutes a poetic corpus of major importance