Statistics for occurrence #1 of “Alcaeus” in chapter 11 of Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Atlantic Essays:
...d it is perhaps as well that the lady did not smile upon him, even in verse.
Their loves rest, after all, rather on tradition than on direct evidence; for there remain to us only two verses which Alcaeus addressed to Sappho.
The one is a compliment, the other an apology.
The compliment is found in one graceful line, which is perhaps her best description :--
Violet-crowned, pure, sweetly smili...
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