summer haiku d’été – you ole’ porcupine = toi, vieux porc-épic you ole’ porcupine bristling in the bushes– you poor yelping fox!toi, vieux porc-épic qui t’hérisses dans la brousse – toi, renard qui jappes ! Richard Vallance
Sappho, spelled (in the dialect spoken by the poet) Psappho, (born c. 610, Lesbos, Greece — died c. 570 BCE). A lyric poet greatly admired in all ages for the beauty of her writing style.
Her language contains elements from Aeolic vernacular and poetic tradition, with traces of epic vocabulary familiar to readers of Homer. She has the ability to judge critically her own ecstasies and grief, and her emotions lose nothing of their force by being recollected in tranquillity.
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