spring haiku de printemps – the snowdrop = le perce-neige = il bucanevethe snowdrop drenched in rain shivers with joy le perce-neige trempé de pluie frémit de joie il bucaneve nella pioggia canta di gioia Richard Vallance photo © by Richard Vallance 2003
spring haiku de printemps – the snowdrop = le perce-neige = il bucaneve
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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