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Sappho
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Sappho Poems
- Awed By Her Splendor Awed by her splendor stars near the ...
- On What Is Best Some celebrate the beauty of knights, or ...
- He Is More Than A Hero He is more than a hero he is a god ...
- You May Forget But You may forget but let me tell you ...
- Cleis Sleep, darling I have a small daughter called Cleis,...
- A Hymn To Venus O Venus, beauty of the skies, To whom a ...
- Blame Aphrodite It's no use Mother dear, I can't finish ...
The 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.
An Oxyrhynchus papyrus from around AD 200 and the Suda agree that Sappho had a mother called Cleïs and a daughter by the same name. Two preserved fragments of Sappho's poetry refer to a Cleïs. In fragment 98, Sappho addresses Cleïs, saying that she has no way of obtaining a decorated headband for her. Fragment 132 reads in full: "I have a beautiful child who looks like golden flowers, my darling Cleis, for whom I would not ... more »
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Awed By Her Splendor
Awed by her splendor
stars near the lovely
moon cover their own
bright faces
when she
is roundest and lights
earth with her silver
Such smooth flow of words in defining a human emotion. Beautiful!
........ even after 2600 years, Sappho's verse keep being very inspirational to us all poets....
I am reading your poems how many years later of your death. I do not know who will read my poems two thousand years later. +8801919455479
An immortal goddess of inspiration from the isle of Lesbos, the tenth muse according to Plato himself and a high priestess of enchantment for the enduring beauty and contemporary appeal of her surviving fragments. She lives on eternally.
I hope someone can help me. It is my understanding that Winnaretta Singer, the Princesse de Polignac, made many translations of Sappho's poems at the turn of the 20th century (Perhaps between 1900-1914, but possibly not until after WWl) . I would like to find them, but have not been successful so far.
Is there a Sappho scholar reading this who can help me? If so, please feel free to email me at Linda5051@aol.com as soon as you read this.
Any assistance will be greatly appreciated.
Here's another one, not included in this anthology:
Mountain Wind
Just as the wind
in the mountains
blows the oaks
assunder, so did
Eros
blow my mind.
It's rare to find so many fragments of her divine lyrics. I'm in Arcadia.......!
The greatest poet of them all,
though only beautiful fragments remain
because of the Christian Era
fearing her love!
does anyone know when the Sappho will be reborn and where? i can't wait