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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: SAPPHO (610-580 B.C.) Matches Found: 58 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A DREAM OF SAPPHO, by RICHARD MONCKTON MILNES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The mariners were all asleep Last Line: Light-lined the east, on grey-white wings upborne. Alternate Author Name(s): Houghton, 1st Baron; Houghton, Lord Subject(s): Sappho (610-580 B.c.) ABLUTION, by JOHN MYERS O'HARA Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Thus drowsy atthis, laughing at my door Last Line: "shall wreathe thy hair while thirsting for thy song." Subject(s): Beauty; Desire; Flirtation; Sappho (610-580 B.c.); Women AD LESBIAM, by GAIUS VALERIUS CATULLUS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Equal to jove that youth must be Last Line: And feels a temporary death. Alternate Author Name(s): Catullus, Caius Valerius Variant Title(s): Lesbia Subject(s): Sappho (610-580 B.c.) AFTER SAPPHO, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I loved you, leslie, long ago Last Line: When I was just an ungainly boy Subject(s): Love; Past; Sappho (610-580 B.c.); Youth AFTER SAPPHO, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I loved you, leslie, long ago Last Line: When I was just an ungainly boy Subject(s): Love; Past; Sappho (610-580 B.c.); Youth ARCADIUS AND SEPHA, by WILLIAM BOSWORTH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Near to the caspian straits, where dolphins sing Last Line: Bend all my power to tell her fate, and die.' Alternate Author Name(s): William Boxworth Subject(s): Sappho (610-580 B.c.) ART, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Art has her altars and her avatars Last Line: A poe sleeps, folded in that perfect dream. Subject(s): Art & Artists; Beauty; Dreams; Earth; Poetry & Poets; Sappho (610-580 B.c.); Soul; Nightmares; World DORICHA, by POSEIDIPPUS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: So now the very bones of you are gone Last Line: Again to naucratis and to the nile. Alternate Author Name(s): Posidippus; Poseidippos Subject(s): Death; Immortality; Sappho (610-580 B.c.); Dead, The DREAM OF SAPPHO, by ELLA (RHOADS) HIGGINSON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The little hollows in the pavements shine Last Line: So to the faltering music of the eaves! Subject(s): Sappho (610-580 B.c.) EPILOGUE TO LUCIUS, by MATTHEW PRIOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The female author who recites to-day Last Line: And the gray mare will prove the better horse. Subject(s): Friendship; Greece; Hearts; Love; Plays & Playwrights; Sappho (610-580 B.c.); Tragedy; Greeks ERINNA TO SAPPHO, by EDUARD FRIEDRICH MORIKE Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Many the paths to hades,' an ancient proverb Alternate Author Name(s): Moricke, Eduard Friedrich Subject(s): Erinna (4th Century B.c.); Sappho (610-580 B.c.) FLOOD TIME, by FLORA LOUISE HUNN Poem Text First Line: Sappho, two thousand years ago Last Line: The rose is still the queen of flowers. Subject(s): Flowers; Roses; Sappho (610-580 B.c.) FOR SAPPHO / AFTER SAPPHO, by CAROLYN KIZER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And you sang eloquently Last Line: For this moment only Subject(s): Death; Grief; Poetry & Poets; Sappho (610-580 B.c.); Women; Women's Rights; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness; Feminism HERITAGE, by BLANCHE SHOEMAKER WAGSTAFF Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Lover can never still in me Last Line: The ancient fire! Alternate Author Name(s): Carr, Mrs. Donald Subject(s): Gays & Lesbians; Lesbos (island), Greece; Love; Sappho (610-580 B.c.); Women HORATIANS: 55, by VICENT ANDRES ESTELLES Poem Source First Line: The night rises like one of sappho's hymns Last Line: In silence %he %and %I Subject(s): Sappho (610-580 B.c.) INVOCATION TO SAPPHO, by ELSA GIDLOW Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Sappho %sister/mother Last Line: Do we not touch %across the censorious years? Subject(s): Sappho (610-580 B.c.) KEATS - SAPPHO, by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Methinks, when first the nightingale Last Line: The pantings of her heart. Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Keats, John (1795-1821); Poetry & Poets; Sappho (610-580 B.c.) LAST SONG OF SAPPHO, by GIACOMO LEOPARDI Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Peaceful night and the unassuming gleam Last Line: And goes to sombre night, and the silent shore Subject(s): Italian Renaissance; Sappho (610-580 B.c.) LONG AGO: 27, by KATHERINE HARRIS BRADLEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The moon rose full: the women stood Last Line: And leave, moon-bathed, the virgin quire Alternate Author Name(s): Field, Michael (with Edith Emma Cooper) Subject(s): Sappho (610-580 B.c.); Women LONG AGO: 54, by KATHERINE HARRIS BRADLEY Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Adown the lesbian vales Last Line: Taught by a poet why sweet hesper glows Alternate Author Name(s): Field, Michael (with Edith Emma Cooper) Subject(s): Sappho (610-580 B.c.) NOCTURNE IN ANJOU, by RICHARD HOVEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I dreamed of sappho on a summer night Last Line: "as one who dreams, ""I have forgotten them." Subject(s): Dreams; Sappho (610-580 B.c.); Nightmares NON-WORLD, by JAMES LAUGHLIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Is too much with me daylong and Last Line: Jesse jackson and help him dis- %pose of that hollywood cowboy Subject(s): Herodotus (484-420 B.c.); Jackson, Jesse (b. 1941); Ovid (43 B.c.-17 A.d.); Sappho (610-580 B.c.); Villon, Francois (1431-1463); Wilmot, John (1647-1680) ODE TO SAPPHO, by ELIZABETH OAKES PRINCE SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Bright, glowing sappho! Child of love and song Last Line: Alas! A lyre and heart -- both broken! Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Seba (e. Oakes), Mrs.; Oakes-smith, Elizabeth Subject(s): Love; Sappho (610-580 B.c.); Soul PHILENA TO MENANDER, by SARAH WENTWORTH MORTON Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: Blest poet! Whose eolian lyre Last Line: And be the palm of genius thine! Alternate Author Name(s): Philenia Subject(s): Homer (10th Century B.c.); Muses; Paine, Robert Treat (1773-1811); Poetry & Poets; Sappho (610-580 B.c.); Time; Iliad; Odyssey READING SAPPHO, by TIMOTHY LIU Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Hurt me hear if ever hearing from afar Last Line: Cheeks cruel gift or say what you love best Subject(s): Books; Sappho (610-580 B.c.) SAPPHIC SUICIDE NOTE, by JAMES GALVIN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Day out Subject(s): Gays & Lesbians; Letters; Sappho (610-580 B.c.); Suicide; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men SAPPHO, by FRANCES BALLMAN Poem Text First Line: Sappho must have laughingly chided scandal Last Line: Still from them rises. Subject(s): Sappho (610-580 B.c.) SAPPHO, by GAIUS VALERIUS CATULLUS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Like to a god he seems to me Last Line: Veiled, as in night. Alternate Author Name(s): Catullus, Caius Valerius Subject(s): Sappho (610-580 B.c.) SAPPHO, by CHARLES KINGSLEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: She lay among the myrtles on the cliff Last Line: "the moods of nobler natures than thine own." Subject(s): Sappho (610-580 B.c.) SAPPHO, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She leant upon her harp, and thousands look'd Last Line: Are sacred -- the devoted sappho! Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia Subject(s): Sappho (610-580 B.c.) SAPPHO, by SEBASTIEN CHARLES LECONTE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: You to whom I aspired, yet did not know Last Line: False sanctuary that the gods have fled! Subject(s): Sappho (610-580 B.c.) SAPPHO, by MARIE VON NAJMAJER Poem Source First Line: Though only your name still shines Subject(s): Sappho (610-580 B.c.); Women's Rights SAPPHO, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I sigh at day-dawn, and I sigh Last Line: Unwept, untended and alone. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Death; Grief; Pain; Sappho (610-580 B.c.); Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness; Suffering; Misery SAPPHO, by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A light upon the headland, flaming far Last Line: We quench the spark a smouldering hope supplies. Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Sappho (610-580 B.c.) SAPPHO, by CLEMENT WOOD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: How could a water hyacinth Last Line: Is a mist of dust? Subject(s): Hyacinths; Sappho (610-580 B.c.) SAPPHO IN LEVKAS, by WILLIAM ALEXANDER PERCY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Zeus, my father, once again Last Line: At last the comfort and the cleansing of the sea. Subject(s): Goddesses & Gods; Life; Love; Mythology; Sappho (610-580 B.c.); Truth SAPPHO'S HOUSE ON FIRE, by PENELOPE BOUTOS Poem Source First Line: The old house caught fire again last night Last Line: Meanwhile, on the roof, the firemen were pissing in the chimney Subject(s): Fire; Sappho (610-580 B.c.) SAPPHO'S LAST SONG, by VITTORIA AGANOOR POMPILI Poem Source First Line: Sea, the last song Subject(s): Sappho (610-580 B.c.); Women's Rights SAPPHO'S VOICE, by GRAY JACOBIK Poem Source First Line: I [or, sarah] love the traffic of percussives in her [or, sappho's] voice Last Line: Now desire, now the mind's surrender to desire Subject(s): Sappho (610-580 B.c.) SAPPHO: 1, by SARA TEASDALE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Midnight, and in the darkness not a sound Last Line: As one grown tired who hopes to sleep, I go. Alternate Author Name(s): Filsinger, Ernest B., Mrs. Subject(s): Sappho (610-580 B.c.) SAPPHO: 2, by SARA TEASDALE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oh litis, little slave, why will you sleep? Last Line: Love came to me, and cercolas was love. Alternate Author Name(s): Filsinger, Ernest B., Mrs. Subject(s): Sappho (610-580 B.c.) SAPPHO: 3, by SARA TEASDALE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The twilight's inner flame grows blue and deep Last Line: I sing for one who falls asleep to hear. Alternate Author Name(s): Filsinger, Ernest B., Mrs. Subject(s): Evening; Flowers; Kisses; Love; Sappho (610-580 B.c.); Sunset; Twilight SAPPHO: YOU BURN ME, by STEPHEN BERG Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: You burn me -- burn me burn me Last Line: A breeze now -- what is Subject(s): Sappho (610-580 B.c.) SAPPHO; A MONODRAMA, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This is the spot: -- 'tis here tradition says Last Line: [she throws herself from the precipice. Subject(s): Lesbos (island), Greece; Mythology - Classical; Sappho (610-580 B.c.); Suicide SO HELP ME SAPPHO, by ANNE WALDMAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lofty teacher had / put an end to his argument Subject(s): Goddesses & Gods; Muses; Mythology; Poetry & Poets; Sappho (610-580 B.c.); Women; Zeus SO HELP ME SAPPHO, by ANNE WALDMAN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lofty teacher had %put an end to his argument Last Line: Maidenhead, did she commit suicide Subject(s): Goddesses And Gods; Muses; Mythology; Poetry And Poets; Sappho (610-580 B.c.); Women; Zeus STILLNESS, by MARGARET COMBS PINNEY Poem Text First Line: By sappho's sea the lesbian hil Last Line: Hush thou to mountain stillness, love. Subject(s): Sappho (610-580 B.c.); Wellesley College SUMMER MATURES, by HELENE JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The brilliant-bellied newt flashes Last Line: Come. Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Sappho (610-580 B.c.) THE IMPROVISATRICE: SAPPHO'S SONG, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Farewell, my lute! - and would that I Last Line: Vibrate the chord whereon it sleeps! Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia Subject(s): Farewell; Lutes; Sappho (610-580 B.c.); Parting THE LAST SONG OF SAPPHO, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sound on, thou dark unslumbering sea Last Line: Alone I come -- oh! Give me peace, dark sea! Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Sappho (610-580 B.c.) THE SADNESSE OF THINGS FOR SAPPHO'S SICKNESSE, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lillies will languish; violets look ill Last Line: But bid good-night, and close their lids for ever. Subject(s): Sappho (610-580 B.c.) TO A MOCKING-BIRD, by WILLIAM ALEXANDER PERCY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Thy taunting happiness Last Line: Beareth the blue, homeric, star-entangled tide! Subject(s): Grief; Happiness; Hearts; Mockingbirds; Sappho (610-580 B.c.); Tears; Sorrow; Sadness; Joy; Delight TO A SONG OF SAPPHO, DISCOVERED IN EGYPT, by LEONORA SPEYER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Jonah wept within the whale Last Line: As gods are wont to do. Subject(s): Goddesses & Gods; Jonah (bible); Mythology; Sappho (610-580 B.c.) TO SAPPHO, by ALCAEUS OF MYTILENE Poem Text First Line: Violet-haired, holy, sweetly smiling sappho Last Line: Violet-haired, holy, sweetly smiling sappho! Alternate Author Name(s): Alkaios Subject(s): Sappho (610-580 B.c.) TRIOLET: 3, by SARA TEASDALE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Beyond the dim hesperides Last Line: The girl who sang them long ago? Alternate Author Name(s): Filsinger, Ernest B., Mrs. Subject(s): Sappho (610-580 B.c.) WHEN SAPPHO WROTE, by GREGORY ORR Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography Subject(s): Sappho (610-580 B.c.) WHEN WE WITH SAPPHO, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We lie here in the bee filled, ruinous Last Line: Evening sky of summer Subject(s): Love; Sappho (610-580 B.c.) WHEN WE WITH SAPPHO, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We lie here in the bee filled, ruinous Last Line: Evening sky of summer Subject(s): Love; Sappho (610-580 B.c.) |
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