Shakespearean love poems? Something longer that you might find ... He's just as famous for his countless affairs with men and ...
In poem 113, Petrarch writes about returning to the region where Laura was born, but he opens by describing his love for his friend, saying he is only “half” himself without Sennuccio, and that both ...
Sonnet 29: “When in disgrace with fortune and men’s eyes ... (1609) Sonnet 116 is arguably one of the most famous love-themed poems ever written. In this poem, Shakespeare shows that ...
The overwhelming majority of these remarkable writings are poems written in Chinese ... the Weaver Maiden in heaven one day fell in love with a mortal Cowherd. After their marriage, her loom, which ...
The poet and author Kynpham Sing Nongkynrih has just won another award, for works that weave past and present, what we’ve ...
A WOMAN has revealed that she fell in love with her boyfriend’s brother, who she said treats her much better, despite being ...
In the first poem (called in later ... procreative love and another, "Calamus," addressed comradeship — the relationship between men. The publishers of the third edition were in Boston and ...
The men might be brave and noble ... Imtiaz, one of the things I love about this poem is that it sounds like we're just chatting. Quote: "There are just not enough straight lines.
She addressed gender issues in her work, and was a female poet at a time when the area was dominated by men. Among Rossetti’s best known poems is this short work about one of the plants most ...
Gay rights pioneer Arnie Kantrowitz shelved dreams of publishing his novel. Three years after his death, his partner fulfils ...
In the beginning, there was just one, unnamed, muse. The blind bard Homer (a poet born around around 850BC) invoked her with ...