Compare Swinburne's—
Thou art more than I,
Though my voice die not till the whole world die.
and—
Memories shall mix and metaphors of me.
and—
I Sappho shall be one with all these things,
With all high things for ever.
Anactoria.
Dio Chrysostom, the celebrated Greek rhetorician, writing about 100 A.D., observes that Sappho says this 'with perfect beauty.'