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
lying moon night
The Moon and Pleiades have set, / Midnight is nigh, / The time is passing, passing, yet / Alone I lie.
lying night moon
The moon is setand the Pleiades; Middle ofthe night, time passes by,I lie alone.
dance moon dancing
Dancing up the full moon Round some fair new altar Trample the soft blossoms of fine grass.
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.
sleep moon midnight
The moon has set, and the Pleiades; it is midnight, and time passes, and I sleep alone.
stars moon light
Stars veil their beauty soon / Beside the glorious moon, / When her full silver light / Doth make the whole earth bright.
song sky mars
Builders, raise the ceiling high, Raise the dome into the sky, Hear the wedding song! For the happy groom is near, Tall as Mars, and statelier, Hear the wedding song!
death boon ill
Death is an ill; 'tis thus the Gods decide: / For had death been a boon, the Gods had died.
queens flower rose
Would Jove appoint some flower to reign, in matchless beauty on the plain, the Rose (mankind will all agree). The Rose the queen of flowers should be.
water flow body
I will let my body flow like water over the gentle cushions.
dark earth thermopylae
For some the fairest thing on the dark earth is Thermopylae, And the Spartan phalanx lowering lances to die.
love heart warning
Without warning as a whirlwind swoops on an oak Love shakes my heart
thinking two sky
I would not think to touch the sky with two arms
two mind knows
I do not know what to do, my mind's in two.