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The best love poems offer respite and revivify; they remind me that I, too, love being alive. Soon the lilacs will bloom, but so briefly. Even more reason to seek them out and breathe in deep.
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.
However, Cupid "steals one (metrical) foot" (unum suripuisse pedem, I.1 ln 4), turning it into elegiac couplets, the meter of love poetry. Ovid returns to the theme of war several times throughout the Amores , especially in poem nine of Book I, an extended metaphor comparing soldiers and lovers ( Militat omnis amans , "every lover is a soldier ...
It shows two contrary types of love. The poem is written in three stanzas. [2] The first stanza is the clod's view that love should be unselfish. The soft view of love is represented by this soft clod of clay, and represents the innocent state of the soul, and a childlike view of the world. [2] The second stanza connects the clod and the pebble.
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.
"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 ...
The River Merchant's Wife: A Letter" is a four stanza poem, written in free verse, and loosely translated by Ezra Pound from a poem by Chinese poet Li Bai, called Chánggān Xíng, or Changgan song. It first appeared in Pound's 1915 collection Cathay. It is the most widely anthologized poem of the collection. [1]
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