A being so intense as Sappho, with sensibilities so refined and intuitions so keen, naturally possessed an ardent love of nature. Her power of expressing its charm is shown in a number of fragments. Every aspect of nature seems to have appealed to her.
Of the morning she says:
"Early uprose the golden-sandalled Dawn."
And of the evening:
"Evening, all things thou bringest
Which Dawn spreads apart from each other;
The lamb and the kid thou bringest,
Thou bringest the boy to his mother."
And of the night:
"And dark-eyed Sleep, child of Night"