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The poem may also mirror Poe's relationship with his foster father John Allan; similar to Poe, Tamerlane is of uncertain parentage, with a "feigned name". [23] The "other poems", which Poe admitted "perhaps savour too much of egotism; but they were written by one too young to have any knowledge of the world but from his own breast". [22]
Sonnet 30 starts with Shakespeare mulling over his past failings and sufferings, including his dead friends and that he feels that he hasn't done anything useful. But in the final couplet Shakespeare comments on how thinking about his friend helps him to recover all of the things that he's lost, and it allows him stop mourning over all that has happened in the past.
A Rose of Regret is a collection of poems by Australian poet James Hebblethwaite. It was published in hardback by The Bulletin magazine in 1900, as part of their Bulletin Booklets range, being the 2nd in that series.
The poem is about the father/son relationship – recalling the poet's memories of his father, realizing that despite the distance between them there was a kind of love, real and intangible, shown by the father's efforts to improve his son's life, rather than by gifts or demonstrative affection.
The "Nine Regrets" is one of the several collections of poems grouped under the title of "Nine" something-or-others, which do not necessarily consist of 9 pieces of poetry. Nine Regrets consists of nine main pieces plus a luan , or envoi (Hawkes, 2011 [1985]: 36-37 and 269–280).
Image credits: anon #21. Buy a good mattress and a good pair of shoes. You spend lots of time on those. #22. You don’t need a million friends. Maybe less than 10, maybe 5, good friends.
"Neutral Tones" is a poem written by Thomas Hardy in 1867. Forming part of his 1898 collection Wessex Poems and Other Verses , it is the most widely praised of his early poems. [ 1 ] It is about the end of a relationship, and carries strong emotional appeal despite its "neutral tones".
A lament or lamentation is a passionate expression of grief, often in music, poetry, or song form. The grief is most often born of regret , or mourning . Laments can also be expressed in a verbal manner in which participants lament about something that they regret or someone that they have lost, and they are usually accompanied by wailing ...