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Lesbian poet of note
Answer for the clue "Lesbian poet of note ", 6 letters:
sappho
Alternative clues for the word sappho
- Poet with a special passion for women
- Much admired although only fragments of her poetry have been preserved (6th century BC)
- Plato dubbed her "the tenth Muse"
- Plato's "tenth Muse"
- Drain soup for old poet
- Lesbos lyrist
- Classical lyric poet
- Greek poetess with an aversion to fools erasing name on biro?
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Sappho (English title: Mad Love ) is a 1921 German silent film directed by Dimitri Buchowetzki and starring Pola Negri as the title character. Alfred Abel , best known for his role as John Fredersen in Metropolis (1927), appears in the role of Andreas De ...
Usage examples of sappho.
Rothgar spends rather more time with Sappho than he does with other women, and sometimes spends the night.
Why else take the name of Sappho, the Greek poet killed for that amorous tendency?
With that, Sappho moved on and Elf, impelled by some insane force, sought out her dangerous earl, Amanda by her side.
As Sappho bandaged the cut, he relaxed again into mute endurance, eyes closed.
The three servants and Sappho picked up Fort and maneuvered him out of the kitchen, along a corridor, and up to the elegant drawing room in which Elf had encountered him over poetry.
She remembered telling Sappho that in the end she would care for her brothers more than for Fort.
Elf felt a strong temptation to ask Sappho about Rothgar and his place in her life, but she managed to restrain herself.
The woman who called herself Sappho was a poet and freethinker who moved on the fringes of society in the manner of one who does not care to be involved any further.
She did wonder, however, why Rothgar had never invited Sappho to Malloren House.
Having cleaned both hands, Sappho moved and began to attend to his feet.
Before Elf could say anything else, Sappho laid a calming hand on her arm.
In a moment, Sappho came in and cut the ropes that bound Fort to the sofa.
She was the tway of Sappho, the tway of an Ash Ock Paratwa, one half of a mind-linked creature with a lifespan measured in centuries.
It was then that Sappho and Theophrastus had secretly gathered up many of the surviving Paratwa, gained control over the Star-Edge project, and extricated themselves from the madness that was engulfing the planet.
As Sappho has frequently suggested, Codrus was simply too planetbound in his thought to ever truly comprehend the second coming.