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  2. Sappho 31 - Wikipedia

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    [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.

  3. List of poems by Catullus - Wikipedia

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    His poems are written in a variety of meters, with hendecasyllabic verse and elegiac couplets being the most common by far. Catullus is renowned for his love poems, particularly the 25 poems addressed to a woman named Lesbia, of which Catullus 5 is perhaps the most famous.

  4. Amores (Ovid) - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  5. Category:Love poems - Wikipedia

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    Pages in category "Love poems" The following 51 pages are in this category, out of 51 total. ... Unending love (poem) V. Variations on the Word Love; W. The Wave (poem)

  6. Romantic poetry - Wikipedia

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    Romantic poetry is the poetry of the Romantic era, an artistic, literary, musical and intellectual movement that originated in Europe towards the end of the 18th century. It involved a reaction against prevailing Enlightenment ideas of the 18th century, [ 1 ] and lasted approximately from 1800 to 1850.

  7. Poems by Edgar Allan Poe - Wikipedia

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    The last complete poem written by Poe, it was published shortly after his death in 1849. The speaker of the poem talks about a lost love, Annabel Lee, and may have been based on Poe's own relationship with his wife Virginia, though that is disputed.