sapphics

Waller or Prior into decent alcaics or sapphics, was about the utmost of his capability, tragedy and epic only did his green unknowing youth engage, and no prize but the highest was fit for him.

The Virginians 2006

Philip Sidney has given in his Arcadia specimens of hexameters, elegiacs, sapphics, asclepiads, anacreontics, hendecasyllables.

Poems and Fragments 2006

Yet, if I may trust my judgment, all of them can still be read with pleasure; the sapphics may almost be called a success.

Poems and Fragments 2006

And even in that love shall I reserve him a spite; sapphics like

Poems and Fragments 2006

And even in that love shall I reserve him a spite; _ sapphics like

The Poems and Fragments of Catullus Gaius Valerius Catullus

I may trust my judgment, all of them can still be read with pleasure; the sapphics may almost be called a success.

The Poems and Fragments of Catullus Gaius Valerius Catullus

By the time Whitman appeared, the ear of the average reader—that formidable person—was attuned to anapæsts, dactyls, choriambics, sapphics, rhymed or unrhymed.

Introduction Harriet Monroe 1917

The poems are extremely varied in subject, and to a lesser degree in metre, hendecasyllables, alcaics, and sapphics being found as well as hexameters.

Post-Augustan Poetry From Seneca to Juvenal Harold Edgeworth Butler 1914

Blank odes have been known in this country about as long as English sapphics and dactylics; and both have been considered, we believe, as a species of monsters, or exotics, that were not very likely to propagate, or thrive, in so unpropitious a climate.

Famous Reviews R. Brimley Johnson 1899

The melancholy fate of his English sapphics, we believe, is but too generally known; and we can scarcely predict a more favourable issue to the present experiment.

Famous Reviews R. Brimley Johnson 1899