On nameless sorrow’s churchyard pillow.
(The Atlantic Monthly, Oct. 1858)
Samuel Latham Mitchill (1764-1831) reflects Sappho’s love of the rose in an imaginary dialogue between Sappho and her younger contemporary from Samos, Pythagoras:
PYTHAGORAS AND SAPPHO,
or
THE DIAMOND AND THE ROSE
Long time ago, ’tis well expressed,
Pythagoras the seer
This question artfully addressed
To beauteous Sappho’s ear:
“When hence thou shalt be forced to flee,