Where burning Sappho loved and sung,- Where grew the arts of war and peace,- Where Delos rose and phoebus sprung!
"Hospital Sketches"
Robert Swain Peabody
No Muse, no phoebus, hath this work inspired, But Jove himself, with heaven's own splendour fired.
"Fringilla: Some Tales In Verse"
Richard Doddridge Blackmore
Of course the first object of search in the choicest corner of the nicely labelled hoard, was the phoebus: but no phoebus was forthcoming; root and label had vanished bodily!
"The Lost Dahlia"
Mary Russell Mitford