Sapphics

Hacker: What I like about Sapphics is the music of a non-iambic metric in English.

Anis Shivani: Poetry As a Bridge Across Cultures: Anis Shivani Interviews Marilyn Hacker Anis Shivani 2010

Hacker: What I like about Sapphics is the music of a non-iambic metric in English.

Anis Shivani: Poetry As a Bridge Across Cultures: Anis Shivani Interviews Marilyn Hacker Anis Shivani 2010

Hacker: What I like about Sapphics is the music of a non-iambic metric in English.

Anis Shivani: Poetry As a Bridge Across Cultures: Anis Shivani Interviews Marilyn Hacker Anis Shivani 2010

Hacker: What I like about Sapphics is the music of a non-iambic metric in English.

Anis Shivani: Poetry As a Bridge Across Cultures: Anis Shivani Interviews Marilyn Hacker Anis Shivani 2010

Hacker: What I like about Sapphics is the music of a non-iambic metric in English.

Anis Shivani: Poetry As a Bridge Across Cultures: Anis Shivani Interviews Marilyn Hacker Anis Shivani 2010

There are, it seems, a lot of airport and tarmac poems (Kumin’s “Our Ground Time Here Will be Brief”, and a fine poem in Sapphics by Marilyn Hacker whose name escapes me – she calls her daughter “Cleis” in it – appropriate for a Sapphic poem of course – and it ends with the daughter slinging a backpack over her shoulder …) I don’t think I would include military flights in my list.

Postcard from nowhere: airports and assumptions : A.E. Stallings : Harriet the Blog : The Poetry Foundation 2007

"Sapphics" ” were the joint production of George Canning and John Hookham Frere.]

Ten Englishmen of the Nineteenth Century Joy, James Richard, 1863- 1902

Now clearly distressed and half crazed with the haunting shrieks and tortured wails of long ago buried Daughters of the American Revolution chickenhawk dinners Peggy unloads the giggling Sapphics in front of the Washington Memorial, takes a couple of swigs of Old Gipper, points her cab at the sniper alley I-66 Western road... and careens through the early autumn night toward an undisclosed secret destination in Fort Royal Maryland.

Hullabaloo 2003

Swinburne's Sapphics in Poems and Ballads are the best known; but though they are finely musical they do not pretend to give more than an echo of the Greek music.

The Principles of English Versification Paull Franklin Baum

Indeed, Alsop seems to have been duly esteemed and appreciated by his contemporaries; and every tasteful scholar will concur in the opinion that his truly elegant Sapphics deserve a place among the few volumes of modern Latin verse, which he would place near Cowper's more extensively known favourite, Vinny Bourne.

Notes and Queries, Number 16, February 16, 1850 Various