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In the fifth cycle, the first and last poems (45 and 60), on the contrasting themes of love promised and love spurned, are linked by the mention of Libyan lions. In the same cycle, 47 (the shabby treatment of Veranius and Fabullus by Piso) is linked to 58 and 59 (the moral degradation of Lesbia) by the theme of cadging for dinner and the words ...
[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.
Catullus is renowned for his love poems, particularly the 25 poems addressed to a woman named Lesbia, of which Catullus 5 is perhaps the most famous. Scholars generally believe that Lesbia was a pseudonym for Clodia and that the name Lesbia is likely an homage to Sappho, who came from the isle of Lesbos .
Sappho asks the goddess to ease the pains of her unrequited love for this woman; [25] after being thus invoked, Aphrodite appears to Sappho, telling her that the woman who has rejected her advances will in time pursue her in turn. [26] The poem concludes with another call for the goddess to assist the speaker in all her amorous struggles.
Her patriotic poem "Liberty Bell" led to the construction of the Columbian Liberty Bell. [3] With this, Wagner reached the acme of her notability when, in 1893, because of her poem, she and William Osborne McDowell, who conceived a great bell for the World's Columbian Exposition, were voted by the Chicago authorities the freedom of the city. [5]
𤾓 Trăm 𢆥 năm 𥪞 trong 𡎝 cõi 𠊛 người 些， ta, 𤾓 𢆥 𥪞 𡎝 𠊛 些， Trăm năm trong cõi người ta, A hundred years in the realm of humanity, 2) 𡨸 Chữ 才 tài 𡨸 chữ 命 mệnh 窖 khéo 𱺵 là 恄 ghét 𠑬。 nhau. 𡨸 才 𡨸 命 窖 𱺵 恄 𠑬。 Chữ tài chữ mệnh khéo là ghét nhau. Talent and destiny resent each other. 3) 𣦰 ...
"She Walks in Beauty" is a short lyrical poem in iambic tetrameter written in 1814 by Lord Byron, and is one of his most famous works. [2] It is said to have been inspired by an event in Byron's life. On 11 June 1814, Byron attended a party in London. Among the guests was Mrs. Anne Beatrix Wilmot, wife of Byron's first cousin, Sir Robert Wilmot ...
Dargomyzhsky's setting of the poem. "I Loved You" (Russian: Я вас любил - Ya vas lyubíl) is a poem by Alexander Pushkin written in 1829 and published in 1830. It has been described as "the quintessential statement of the theme of lost love" in Russian poetry, [1] and an example of Pushkin's respectful attitude towards women.