Book Club - Poetry
Come, divine lyre, speak to me and become a voice.
Sappho was born around 620 BC on the island of Lesbos in Greece. Her poetry was lyrical and she was nicknamed the Tenth Muse. It is believed that she composed more than 10,000 lines of poetry in her time.
Many of her poems are only in fragments now, the full volumes having been lost to history.
I like this fragment most, I think.
The stars around the beautiful moon
Hiding their glittering forms
Whenever she shines full on earth
Silver...
One of a few poems that survived in full is her "Ode to Aphrodite."
There are no reliable images of Sappho, but in one poem she referred to her hair as "now white but formerly black," and there is this representation of her from 470 BC.
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