The Sapphic stanza, named after Sappho, is an Aeolic verse form of four lines. Originally composed in quantitative verse and unrhymed, since the Middle Ages imitations of the form typically feature rhyme and accentual prosody. It is "the longest lived of the Classical lyric strophes in the West".
Alcaeus and Sappho, the two great poets of Lesbos. Attic red-figure calathus, c. 470 BCE
Algernon Charles Swinburne, around the time he published "Sapphics"
Gaius Valerius Catullus, known as Catullus, was a Latin neoteric poet of the late Roman Republic. His surviving works remain widely read due to their popularity as teaching tools and because of their personal or sexually explicit themes.
Catullus at Lesbia's by Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema
Lesbia, 1878 painting by John Reinhard Weguelin inspired by the poems of Catullus
Catullus et in eum commentarius (1554)