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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.
"A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning" is a metaphysical poem by John Donne. Written in 1611 or 1612 for his wife Anne before he left on a trip to Continental Europe, "A Valediction" is a 36-line love poem that was first published in the 1633 collection Songs and Sonnets, two years after Donne's death.
Remedia Amoris (also known as Love's Remedy or The Cure for Love; c. 2 AD) is an 814-line poem in Latin by Roman poet Ovid.In this companion poem to The Art of Love, Ovid offers advice and strategies to avoid being hurt by love feelings, or to fall out of love, with a stoic overtone.
"Fare Thee Well" (also known as "The Turtle Dove" or "10,000 Miles") is an 18th-century English folk ballad, listed as number 422 in the Roud Folk Song Index.In the song, a lover bids farewell before setting off on a journey, and the lyrics include a dialogue between the lovers.
The last words, "Hail and Farewell" (in Latin, ave atque vale), are among Catullus' most famous; an alternative modern translation might be "I salute you...and goodbye". The meter is elegiac couplet, which was usually employed in love poetry, such as Catullus' addresses to Lesbia. However, the elegiac couplet was originally used by ancient ...
Mexican Rigoberto Pérezcano’s “Lovers Fare Goodbye,” a poignant, exquisitely shot tale of star-crossed young love dominated prizes at Primer Corte, Ventana Sur’s key arthouse pic competition.
In Zwei Gesänge, Schoenberg [a] set poems from Karl Michael von Levetzow's Höhenlieder: Gedichte und Aphorismen, "Dank" ("Thanks") in the first song and "Abschied" ("Farewell") in the other. In July 1898, Levetzow had given Schoenberg a copy of this volume inscribed: "Dedicated kindly to Mr Arnold Schönberg with the best wishes for success". [2]
A dedicatory poem about sending the book out to readers, a postscript. [3] Any poem of farewell, including a farewell to life. The word envoy or l'envoy comes from the Old French, where it means '[the] sending forth'. [3] Originally it was a stanza at the end of a longer poem, which included a dedication to a patron or individual, similar to a ...