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Sappho (c. 630–570 BCE) was a lyric poet from the island of Lesbos, celebrated in antiquity as the 'Tenth Muse.' She composed songs of love, desire, and loss, often addressing women, and her work survives only in fragments, yet it profoundly influenced later poetry and the Western lyric tradition.

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Fragment 1 (Hymn to Aphrodite)
Fragment 31 (He seems to me equal to gods)
Fragment 16 (Some say a cavalry corps)
Fragment 94 (Honestly, I wish I were dead)
Fragment 130 (Eros, the loosener of limbs)

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