...r by her side, and of Lycus, beautiful with his black hair and black eyes. But the name of the Greek singer is still better preserved to Anglo-Saxons through an imitation of a single fragment by Sir William Jones ,--the noble poem beginning What constitutes a state? It is worth while to remember that we owe these fine lines to the lover of Sappho. And indeed the poems of Alcaeus, so far as they remain, sh...