Sufficient now are thine.” ...

(Thomas Hardy, A Singer Asleep)

While perhaps Swinburne exaggerates in his praise of Sappho, he owes much to the great poetess of love:

Love’s priestess, mad with pain and joy of song,

Song’s priestess, mad with joy and pain of love.

(On the Cliffs)

He makes her say:

My blood was hot wan wine of love,

And my song’s sound the sound thereof,

The sound of the delight of it.