Word: sappho
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...American college student, regaled with novels like Daudet's Sappho and nourished upon choice anecdotes of the Montmartre, has long been accustomed to look to Paris as the Elysian Fields of the genus Student. But the days of cheap beer and gay grisettes exist only in the imagination. The present lot of the Parisian student is indeed, a sorry...
...sweet birds of the Lord With earth's waters make accord: The Muses' sacred grove be wet With the red dew of Olivet, And Sappho lay her burning brows In white Cecilia's lap of snows...
...died in 1915), aunt of the present Monarch and wife of King Carol I of Rumania who died on Oct. 7, 1914. She wrote with facility in English, French, German, Rumanian. The most noteworthy of her writings: Les Pensees d'une Relne (1882), Cuvinte Sufletesci (1888); two poems, Sappho and Hammerstein...
Launched at Leeds in 1893, she was sold soon afterwards to become the private yacht of Sarah Bernhardt, who christened her Cleopatra. She was Sappho to her next owner, A. S. Barber, and Penelope later to H. E. Converse...
...these is distinctly good, and what is better, the high seriousness of the verse and the evident sincerity of the prose are joined to subject matter of enough interest and importance to seize even a careless reader. One would like to see in McLane's "Nocturne" reminiscences of Sappho, so simple and clear are the picture and the mood reflected therein. Other excellent verses, including two sonnets, some capital book reviews, and an amusing story, "Dolcezzo e Luce in Boston", which touches in desirable fashion on the province of the Lampoon, lend variety and breadth of view to the number...