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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] 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.
Everyone needs someone : poems of love and friendship. Old Tappan, N.J., Fleming H. Revell, 1978. In the vineyard of the Lord / Helen Steiner Rice, as told to Fred Bauer. Old Tappan, N.J., Fleming H. Revell, 1979. And the greatest of these is love : poems and promises / Helen Steiner Rice ; compiled by Donald T. Kauffman.
This is a list of feminist poets.Historically, literature has been a male-dominated sphere, and any poetry written by a woman could be seen as feminist.Often, feminist poetry refers to that which was composed after the 1960s and the second wave of the feminist movement.
Earlier working titles for the sequence were "The Love-Match" and then "The Tragedy of Modern Love". [2] It first appeared in 1862 as part of the volume Modern Love and Poems of the English Roadside, published by Chapman & Hall, [3] and then thirty years later, with slight modifications, from Macmillan. [4]
"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 ...
Cervantes considers herself "a Chicana writer, a feminist writer, a political writer" (Cervantes). Her collections of poetry include Emplumada, From the Cables of Genocide, Drive: The First Quartet and Ciento: 100 100-Word Love Poems, and Sueño: New Poems, are held in high esteem and have attracted numerous nominations and awards. [6]
2.2 – The poet asks Bagoas, a woman's servant, to help him gain access to his mistress. 2.3 – The poet addresses a eunuch (probably Bagoas from 2.2) who is preventing him from seeing a woman. 2.4 – The poet describes his love for women of all sorts. 2.5 – The poet addresses his lover, whom he has seen being unfaithful at a dinner party.