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Sappho

Sappho \Sap"pho\, n. [See Sapphic.] (Zo["o]l.) Any one of several species of brilliant South American humming birds of the genus Sappho, having very bright-colored and deeply forked tails; -- called also firetail.

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Sappho (; Attic Greek , Aeolic Greek , Psappho ) was a Greek lyric poet from the island of Lesbos. She was born sometime between 630 and 612 BCE, and it is said that she died around 570 BCE, but little is known for certain about her life. Sappho's poetry was well-known and greatly admired through much of antiquity, and she was considered one of the canon of nine lyric poets. However, most of her poetry is now lost, and survives only in fragmentary form.

Sappho (disambiguation)

Sappho (died ca. 570 BC) was an ancient Greek poet. Sappho may also refer to: __NOTOC__

Sappho (organisation)

Sappho was an English lesbian social club founded in 1972 by Jackie Forster and others.

The club, whose namesake was the poet Sappho of Lesbos, met every Tuesday at The Chepstow, a public house in the Notting Hill district of London. The group advertised their meetings in the magazines Time Out London and City Limits.

Until 1981, the club published an eponymous monthly magazine with a peak circulation of about 1,000 copies.

Forster founded and edited the magazine after writing for Arena Three (of the Minorities Research Group), which had folded soon before. Sappho distributed their magazine at their meetings, and also at such lesbian venues as Gateways, a nightclub in Chelsea. Back issues of the magazine are now held in the Hall–Carpenter Archives.

Sappho continued to meet regularly until the late 1980s, each week inviting guest speakers such as Miriam Margolyes, Maureen Duffy, and Anna Raeburn.

Sappho (play)

Sappho (1818) is a tragedy by Austrian playwright Franz Grillparzer.

Sappho (yacht)

Sappho was one of two defender yachts at the second America's Cup challenge, stepping in when defender Columbia was damaged in the third race.

Sappho (film)

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 La Croix, the insane brother.

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.