...Sappho wrote many hymns, lyric (Sapphic meter) poetry, and marriage songs...in paris in the twenties on the rue jacob Natalie Clifford Barney held her salons and Renee Vivien's poetry was set to music and dance....women have always written lyrical love poetry and song to one another, I think Gertrude Stein's poem Sacred Emily was one of many to Gertrude which could be sung...of course she would never have done this!and then there is the compulsive confessionism of the twentieth century...harpgirl