The deep that closed upon her woes
Not half so wild, impetuous flows.
Swinburne is one of Sappho’s greatest admirers, and we have quoted some of his praises among the appreciations of Sappho ([p. 11]). We have cited Noyes’ appreciation of Swinburne’s love of Sappho, and here are Thomas Hardy’s interesting lines to Swinburne:
—His singing-mistress verily was no other
Than she the Lesbian, she the music-mother
Of all the tribe that feel in melodies;
Who leapt, love-anguished, from the Leucadian steep
Into the rambling world-encircling deep
Which hides her where none sees.
And one can hold in thought that nightly here