Lexicographical Neighbors of Sapphics
Literary usage of Sapphics
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Port Folio by Joseph Dennie, Asbury Dickins (1822)
"sapphics. Fast by thy stream, O Babylon, reclining, Wo-begone exile, to the gale
of evening Only responsive, my forsaken harp I Hang on the willow. ..."
2. Italy and Her Invaders by Thomas Hodgkin (1895)
"... love for classical literature is furnished by the sapphics. verses which, at
the age of seventy-two, and probably within a few months of his death, ..."
3. Orthometry: A Treatise on the Art of Versification and the Technicalities of by Robert Frederick Brewer (1893)
"sapphics. (*) Thrice repeated, followed by Man disa | vows and Dei | ty dis ]
owns me ; Hell might | afford ] my miser | ies a | shelter, Therefore hell ..."
4. The Port Folio by Joseph Dennie, Asbury Dickins (1822)
"sapphics. Fast by thy stream, O Babylon, reclining, Wo-begone exile, to the gale
of evening Only responsive, my forsaken harp I Hang on the willow. ..."
5. Italy and Her Invaders by Thomas Hodgkin (1895)
"... love for classical literature is furnished by the sapphics. verses which, at
the age of seventy-two, and probably within a few months of his death, ..."
6. Orthometry: A Treatise on the Art of Versification and the Technicalities of by Robert Frederick Brewer (1893)
"sapphics. (*) Thrice repeated, followed by Man disa | vows and Dei | ty dis ]
owns me ; Hell might | afford ] my miser | ies a | shelter, Therefore hell ..."
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