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"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.
Print shows Maud Muller, John Greenleaf Whittier's heroine in the poem of the same name, leaning on her hay rake, gazing into the distance. Behind her, an ox cart, and in the distance, the village "Maud Muller" is a poem from 1856 written by John Greenleaf Whittier (1807–1892). It is about a beautiful maid named Maud Muller.
"O that I had ne'er been Married" is a Scots-language poem and song by Robert Burns.It dates from 1795. It was included in the Scots Musical Museum collection. [1] [2]Burns may have written it himself as there is no record of the song prior to the Scots Musical Museum, and it was claimed by William Stenhouse, the editor, that Burns related the melody of the song to the Museums publisher James ...
The poem is also considered by some to be a riddle poem. A riddle poem contains a lesson told in cultural context which would be understandable or relates to the reader, and was a very popular genre of poetry of the time period. Gnomic wisdom is also a characteristic of a riddle poem, and is present in the poem's closing sentiment (lines 52-53).
Mermin, Dorothy M. "Poetry as Fiction: Meredith's Modern Love”, ELH 43.1, (Spring, 1976), The Johns Hopkins University Press; Moore, Natasha. "Finding a Form for Modern Love: The Marriage of Form and Content in George Meredith's Modern Love', University of Sydney 2014; Ostrom, Hans. "The Disappearance of Tragedy in Meredith's Modern Love.
The Whitsun Weddings is a collection of 32 poems by Philip Larkin. It was first published by Faber in the United Kingdom on 28 February 1964. It was a commercial success, by the standards of poetry publication, with the first 4,000 copies being sold within two months. A United States edition appeared some seven months later.
Jennifer Lopez celebrated her one-year wedding anniversary with Ben Affleck by dropping cute unseen pics and a full-blown poem. J.Lo Drops Ben Affleck Wedding Pics and a Poem to Celebrate Their 1 ...
In poem 38, Catullus begs him to send him a sad poem to help cheer him up in his depression. Cornificius was a friend of Cicero, and served as one of Caesar's commanders in 48 BC. Cornificius's sister Cornificia, herself a poet, married a certain Camerius, who may well be the same Camerius that Catullus addresses in poems 55 and 58b.