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  2. Poetry of Sappho - Wikipedia

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    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.

  3. Sappho - Wikipedia

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    Sappho's poetry is known for its clear language and simple thoughts, sharply-drawn images, and use of direct quotation that brings a sense of immediacy. [97] Unexpected word-play is a characteristic feature of her style. [98]

  4. Sappho 31 - Wikipedia

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    Sappho 31 is a lyric poem by the Archaic Greek poet Sappho of the island of Lesbos. [a] The poem is also known as phainetai moi (φαίνεταί μοι lit. ' It seems to me ') after the opening words of its first line. It is one of Sappho's most famous poems, describing her love for a young woman.

  5. Ode to Aphrodite - Wikipedia

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    The poem is written in Aeolic Greek and set in Sapphic stanzas, a meter named after Sappho, in which three longer lines of the same length are followed by a fourth, shorter one. [15] In Hellenistic editions of Sappho's works, it was the first poem of Book I of her poetry.

  6. Brothers Poem - Wikipedia

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    The Brothers Poem or Brothers Song is a series of lines of verse attributed to the archaic Greek poet Sappho (c. 630 – c. 570 BC), which had been lost since antiquity until being rediscovered in 2014.

  7. Midnight poem - Wikipedia

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    The Midnight poem is a fragment of Greek lyric poetry preserved by the Alexandrian grammarian Hephaestion. [1] It is possibly by the archaic Greek poet Sappho, and is fragment 168 B in Eva-Maria Voigt's edition of her works.

  8. Tithonus poem - Wikipedia

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    The Tithonus poem, also known as the Old age poem or (with fragments of another poem by Sappho discovered at the same time) the New Sappho, [a] is a poem by the archaic Greek poet Sappho. It is part of fragment 58 in Eva-Maria Voigt 's edition of Sappho.

  9. Sappho 96 - Wikipedia

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    The poem is composed in three-line stanzas based on glyconic cola, [12] made up of a creticus, three glyconics, and a bacchius, [13] the same metre as Sappho 95. [14] Though written over three lines, these stanzas are made up of a single verse without a metrical break, in several cases with words split over two lines. [15]

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