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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.
While the poems are basically love poems their natural setting includes references to a number of plant and animal species. Some plant species such as Ricinus communis and Pandanus are mentioned just once. Others, for example, mango(17) and lotus (49) are mentioned in several poems. Altogether 170 poems mention plant species.
2.2 – The poet asks Bagoas, a woman's servant, to help him gain access to his mistress. 2.3 – The poet addresses a eunuch (probably Bagoas from 2.2) who is preventing him from seeing a woman. 2.4 – The poet describes his love for women of all sorts. 2.5 – The poet addresses his lover, whom he has seen being unfaithful at a dinner party.
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In the early 1980s Harkins sent the piece, with other poems, to various magazines and poetry publishers, without any immediate success. Eventually it was published in a small anthology in 1999. He later said: "I believe a copy of 'Remember Me' was lying around in some publishers/poetry magazine office way back, someone picked it up and after ...
International Women's Day, March 8, 2020, Santiago, Chile. Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair has served as inspiration for musical works. The Spanish band La Oreja de Van Gogh alludes to the book in their song Canción desesperada, while the Spanish singer-songwriter Álex Ubago reinterprets Neruda's Poem XX.
[a] The poem is also known as phainetai moi (φαίνεταί μοι lit. ' It seems to me ') after the opening words of its first line. It is one of Sappho's most famous poems, describing her love for a young woman. Fragment 31 has been the subject of numerous translations and adaptations from ancient times to the present day.
Pages in category "Love poems" The following 51 pages are in this category, out of 51 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A. Alysoun; Amores (Ovid) B.