#poetry of sappho

[mournfulroses]

Noelle Kocot, from 4; "Sappho to Erinna," originally published in May 2021

[spoonsbutbetter]

please laugh, it’s 4:17am here and i’m GIGGLING

[life-imitates-art-far-more]

Jules Lefebvre (1836-1911) "Sappho" Oil on canvas

[literarydesire]

"I declare that later on, even in an age unlike our own, someone will remember who we are" - Sappho

[ledalife]

[milawritess]

what was i made for – Gojo Satoru

Pairing: Gojo Satoru x fem!Reader

Synopsis: A mini-series following the events of wherever you go, that’s where I’ll follow, depicting the readers challenging recovery.

Warnings: ANGST, reader losing her technique and cursed energy, depression, anger, isolation, arguments, mentions of sexual intercourse (MDNI), swearing, mentions of gore/horror elements, the reader is (or was) a sorcerer. 

Genre(s): Heavy ANGST, love and comfort, tragedy. 

entries

i. what cannot be said will be wept

ii. in the crooks of your body, i find my religon

iii. stand and face me, my love, and scatter the grace in your eyes

iv. you burn me

v. love-bittersweet, irrepressible-loosens my limbs and i tremble

vi. bring my distempered soul relief

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[lesbianlenses]

Sappho poetry fragments in Diversion magazine, 1987.

[forsapphics]

If Not, Winter: Fragments of Sappho

translated by Anne Carson

[weltonboys]

death of sappho - miguel carbonel selva

[greeknerdsblog]

#I'm back on my bullshit :3

[artemlegere]

Sappho Playing the Lyre

Artist: Léopold Burthe (French, 1823–1860)

Date: 1849

Medium: Oil on canvas

Collection: Musée des Beaux-Arts de Carcassonne, Carcassonne, France

Sappho

Called the Tenth Muse by Plato, Sappho was a prolific poet of ancient Greece. She innovated the form of poetry through her first-person narration (instead of writing from the vantage point of the gods) and by refining the lyric meter. The details of Sappho’s life have been obscured by legend and mythology, and the best source of information is the Suidas, a Greek lexicon compiled in the 10th century.

Sappho was born on Lesbos to a noble family. She lived most of her life in the city of Mytilene, with the exception of her family’s brief exile in Sicily shortly after 600 B.C.E. She married a wealthy man in Mytilene, and they had a daughter names Cleis. Sappho also headed a thiasos, or an academy of unmarried women. As was the custom at the time, wealthy families sent their daughters to live at these schools where they were taught proper social graces, composition, singing, and poetry recitation. Much of Sappho’s poetry was composed in this community, and she used many of her students as subjects.

Perhaps Sappho’s most famous work is her “Ode to Aphrodite”:

Deathless Aphrodite of the spangled mind, child of Zeus, who twists lures, I beg you do not break with hard pains, O lady, my heart

but come here if ever before you caught my voice far off and listening left your father’s golden house and came,

yoking your car. And fine birds brought you, quick sparrows over the black earth whipping their wings down the sky through midair -

they arrive. But you, O blessed one, smiled in your deathless face and asked what (now again) I have suffered and why (now again) I am calling out

and what I want to happen most of all in my crazy heart. Whom should I persuade (now again) to lead you back into her love? Who, O Sappho, is wronging you?

For if she flees, soon she will pursue. If she refuses gifts, rather will she give them. If she does not love, soon she will love even unwilling.

Come to me now: loose me from hard care and all my heart longs to accomplish, accomplish. You be my ally.

(Carson, If Not, Winter, 2–5)

[poetrysmackdown]

[lionofchaeronea]

Come, shining lyre, speak to me--gain the power of utterance. ἄγι δὴ χέλυ δῖα μοι λέγε φωνάεσσα δὲ γίνεω. --Sappho, fr. 118

[asoftepiloguemylove]

William Shakespeare // pinterest // Feel Good (2020-2021) cr. Joe Hampson & Mae Martin // Natalie Diaz These Hands, If Not Gods // Sandra Cisneros Woman at Hollering Creek: Stories; "Never Marry a Mexican" // Holland NUMBER BOY // Richard Siken Crush // 스물다섯 스물하나 Twenty-Five Twenty-One (2022) dir. Jung Ji-hyun // Sappho // Dodie She // Maureen Seaton Furious Cooking; "Swan Lake" // unknown // Frank Ocean Forrest Gump // แปลรักฉันด้วยใจเธอ I Told Sunset About You / I Promised You the Moon (2020-2022) dir. Naruebet Kuno & Tossaphon Riantong // Danez Smith Recklessly (via @tendermimi)

[raisunii]

sapphism : a web weave

Sappho / Girls Like Girls, Hayley Kiyoko / Heavy, Tegan And Sara / The Chapel of Saints Perpetua and Felicity at The Basilica / Lyra Wren / But I'm A Cheerleader, Jamie Babbit / Asking About You, Eloise Klein Healy / Ring of Keys, Lisa Kron / Le Sommeil, Gustave Courbet

[apoemaday]

Fragment 33

by Sappho tr. Julia Dubnoff

When you lie dead, no one will remember you For you have no share in the Muses’ roses. No, flitting aimlessly about, You will wildly roam, a shade amidst the shadowy dead.