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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.
The most powerful love poems, I think, address the fact that we are here now and one day won’t be. Keats’s “Ode on Melancholy” is an exquisite example. Keats knew immense suffering in his ...
Nirat Hariphunchai (Thai: โคลงนิราศหริภุญชัย, Khlong nirat hariphunchai) is an old poem of around 720 lines, originally composed in Northern Thai language. Nirat , derived from a Sanskrit word meaning “without”, is a genre of Thai poetry that involves travel and love-longing for a separated beloved. [ 1 ]
Download as PDF; Printable version; In other projects ... Postcolonial Love Poem is a poem collection by Natalie Diaz which is ... Pulitzer Prize for Poetry [2] [3 ...
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 ...
[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.
The Garland of Sulpicia, [1] also sometimes known as the Sulpicia cycle [2] or the Sulpicia-Cerinthus cycle, is a group of five Latin love poems written in elegiac couplets and included in volume 3 of the collected works of Tibullus (Tibullus 3.8–3.12 = Tibullus 4.2–4.6). The five poems concern a love affair between a girl Sulpicia and a ...
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