Sappho: A New Rendering

She was most famous for her poems involving women who loved women, and it is from her name that sapphic, a term referring to sexual relations between women, originated. Sappho was a female poet who was well known in ancient Greece and Rome for her lyrical poetry. This is a compendium of her surviving work, a collection of 54 fragments translated by Henry de Vere Stacpoole.