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CIL 4.5296 (or CLE 950) [a] is a poem found graffitied on the wall of a hallway in Pompeii.Discovered in 1888, it is one of the longest and most elaborate surviving graffiti texts from the town, and may be the only known love poem from one woman to another from the Latin world.
Maya Angelou quotes about love “Love liberates. It doesn’t just hold, that’s ego. Love liberates.” “Have enough courage to trust love one more time and always one more time.” ...
The first few lines of the poem in Peniarth MS 54, a manuscript dating from c. 1480. The poem's theme, Dafydd's habitual failure in love, is a very common one in his work. As the novelist and scholar Gwyn Jones wrote: No lover in any language, and certainly no poet, has confessed to missing the mark more often than Dafydd ap Gwilym.
Structurally, for colored girls is a series of 20-22 poems, depending on whether "my love is too" and "positive" are included in the list, collectively called a "choreopoem." Shange's poetry expresses many struggles and obstacles that African-American women may face throughout their lives and is a representation of sisterhood and coming of age ...
Sappho 31 is a lyric poem by the Archaic Greek poet Sappho of the island of Lesbos. [a] The poem is also known as phainetai moi (φαίνεταί μοι lit. ' It seems to me ') after the opening words of its first line, and as the Ode to Anactoria, based on a conjecture that its subject is Anactoria, a woman mentioned elsewhere by Sappho.
11. “The simple lack of her is more to me than others’ presence.” —George Thomas 12. “I loved her against reason, against promise, against peace, against hope, against happiness, against ...
Many of Angelou's poems are about love and relationships. For example, all the poems in the first section of Diiie focus on love. [36] In Southern Women Writers, Carol A. Neubauer states that they "describe the whole gamut of love, from the first moment of passionate discovery to the first suspicion of painful loss". [37]
Teresa Makri (Τερέζα Μακρή), the subject of the poem, in 1870. " Maid of Athens, ere we part " is a poem by Lord Byron , written in 1810 and dedicated to a young girl of Athens . [ 1 ] It begins: