This chapter considers Michael Field’s Long Ago (1889), a volume of lyric poems inspired by the Ancient Greek poet Sappho. In these poems, Katharine Bradley and Edith Cooper respond to Henry Thornton Wharton’s Sappho: Memoir, Text, Selected Renderings, and a Literal Translation (1885) by forging a creative-critical experiment, attempting to communicate the experience of reading Sappho by using Sapphic fragments (in Greek) as epigraphs and embedding them (in English) in original lyrics. The chapter analyses several poems from Long Ago to show how Michael Field enter into dialogue with Sappho’s voice, enabling them to express their admiration for Sappho’s work, but also to generate their own lyric voice and to forge subtle links between Hellenism and homosexuality, reflecting their own complex identity.