This seems odd when one recalls that he wrote poetry longer than any other major English poet: `` Domicilium '' is dated `` between 1857 and 1860 '' ; ;

Ahmed was a poet who wrote a number of political and lyrical works under the name Bahti.

The chief authorities on the career of Alaric are: the historian Orosius and the poet Claudian, both contemporary, neither disinterested ; Zosimus, a historian who lived probably about half a century after Alaric's death ; and Jordanes, a Goth who wrote the history of his nation in 551, basing his work on The Trojan War.

129 ) indicate that the poet, his brothers and Pittacus made plans to overthrow him and that Pittacus subsequently betrayed them ; Alcaeus and his brothers fled into exile where the poet later wrote a drinking song in celebration of the news of the tyrant's death ( frag.

* Anton Alexander Graf von Auersperg ( 1806 – 1876 ) – Austrian poet who wrote under the pseudonym of Anastasius Grün.

Mozart wrote to his father in May 1783 about Salieri and Lorenzo Da Ponte, the court poet: " You know those Italian gentlemen ; they are very nice to your face!

" Swedish author August Strindberg wrote: " Linnaeus was in reality a poet who happened to become a naturalist ".

* Archibald MacLeish wrote a poem entitled " You Also, Gaius Valerius Catullus ," where he addresses the poet.

" Of the Australian national flag, the Australian poet Banjo Paterson wrote in 1893: The English flag may flutter and wave, where the world wide oceans toss, but the flag the Australian dies to save, is the flag of the Southern Cross.

The Scottish poet William Soutar also wrote over one hundred American Cinquains ( he labelled them Epigrams ) between 1933 and 1940.

Chaucer was a courtier, leading some to believe that he was mainly a court poet who wrote exclusively for nobility.

In 1841, the German linguist and poet August Heinrich Hoffmann von Fallersleben wrote the lyrics of " Das Lied der Deutschen " to Haydn's melody, lyrics that were considered revolutionary at the time.

Constantine FitzGibbon, Thomas ' first in-depth biographer, wrote " No major English poet has ever been as Welsh as Dylan ".

Ernest Lawrence Thayer ( August 14, 1863 – August 21, 1940 ) was an American writer and poet who wrote " Casey at the Bat ".

* The Italian Renaissance poet Lucrezia Tornabuoni chose Esther as one of biblical figures on which she wrote poetry.

The poet and colonist Edmund Spenser wrote that the victims " were brought to such wretchedness as that any stony heart would have rued the same ".

Francis Scott Key ( August 1, 1779 – January 11, 1843 ) was an American lawyer, author, and amateur poet, from Georgetown, who wrote the lyrics to the United States ' national anthem, " The Star-Spangled Banner ".

This early form of democracy was recorded by the philosopher Rousseau, by the poet Wordsworth, by the dramatist Tirso de Molina and by the composer Iparraguirre, who wrote the piece called Gernikako Arbola.

In the 1890s, English socialist poet Edward Carpenter and Scottish anarchist John Henry Mackay wrote in defense of same-sex love and androgyny ; Carpenter and British homosexual rights advocate John Addington Symonds contributed to the development of Havelock Ellis's groundbreaking book Sexual Inversion, which called for tolerance towards " inverts " and was suppressed when first published in England.

He once wrote a paper under a pseudonym derived from Kobayashi Issa, a famous Japanese haiku poet.

It thus became expected that educated Europeans should learn at least some Italian ; the English poet John Milton, for instance, wrote some of his early poetry in Italian.

The poet Richard Barnfield wrote that Dowland's " heavenly touch upon the lute doth ravish human sense.

His brother George wrote that John " feared that he should never be a poet, & if he was not he would destroy himself ".

Mirza Muhammad Haidar Dughlat, a poet from Hindustan who visited at the time wrote: " Dine and drink in Kabul: it is mountain, desert, city, river and all else.

The lyrics come from " Defence of Fort McHenry ", a poem written in 1814 by the 35-year-old lawyer and amateur poet, Francis Scott Key, after witnessing the bombardment of Fort McHenry by the British Royal Navy ships in Chesapeake Bay during the Battle of Fort McHenry in the War of 1812.

The original lyrics were written in 1895 by poet and nationalist Banjo Paterson.

In 1966 he left Dedé Wolff and the following year signed a five year contract with the poet Horacio Ferrer with whom he composed the operetta Maria de Buenos Aires, with lyrics by Ferrer.

It was later turned into a vocal version called Where the Gentle Avon Flows, with lyrics by the poet Christopher Hassall.

The dithyramb, a genre of lyrics traditionally sung to Dionysus, was later developed into narratives illustrating heroic myths ; Simonides is the earliest poet known to have composed in this enlarged form ( the geographer Strabo mentioned a dithyramb, Memnon, in which Simonides located the hero's tomb in Syria, indicating that he didn't compose only on legends of Dionysius.

It was based on lyrics by poet Alexandru Basarab ( actually a pen name for Adrian Hoajă ), which retold the story of Zalmoxis's existence.

Both girls began having their poems published as teenagers, and they eventually counted among their admirers Massachusetts poet and abolitionist John Greenleaf Whittier, New York Tribune newspaper editor Horace Greeley, and author Edgar Allan Poe, who pronounced Alice Cary's Pictures of Memory, " one of the most musically perfect lyrics in the English language.

The lyrics of the national anthem, which allude to historical Mexican military victories in the heat of battle and including cries of defending the homeland, were composed by poet Francisco González Bocanegra in 1853.

For an anthem, lyrics were written by the poet Johannes R. Becher ( who later became Minister of Culture ).

The lyrics of Australia's best known folk song, " Waltzing Matilda ", were written by the bush poet Banjo Paterson in 1895.

The composer was violinist Alexei Lvov, and the lyrics were by the court poet Vasily Zhukovsky.

Thomas Moore ( 28 May 1779 – 25 February 1852 ) was an Irish poet, singer, songwriter, and entertainer, now best remembered for the lyrics of The Minstrel Boy and The Last Rose of Summer.

The words were written by the Albanian poet Asdreni ( Aleksandër Stavre Drenova ) but are merely different from the original Romanian lyrics which Andrei Barseanu wrote for Porumbescu's piece.

In Italy he is considered as a poet because of the quality of his lyrics.

Its lyrics are adapted from a poem written by Naphtali Herz Imber, a Jewish poet from Złoczów, province of Galicia, Austro-Hungarian Empire, ( today, Zolochiv, Ukraine ).

The poet Edward Pickman Derby, the protagonist of Lovecraft's " The Thing on the Doorstep ", is a poet whose collection of " nightmare lyrics " is called Azathoth and Other Horrors.

) However, he always maintained he was a poet who put lyrics to music.

Here it was that the young poet learned his craft under the renowned master Reinmar the Old, whose death he afterwards lamented in two of his most beautiful lyrics ; and in the open-handed duke, he found his first patron.

As an example, here are the lyrics of a thumri composed by the medieval poet Lalan, celebrating Krishna's flute-how its tunes are driving Radha mad.

One of the key names in modern tango, poet Horacio Ferrer, who contributed the lyrics for several of the most important tango works by Astor Piazzolla, is Uruguayan as well.

* Jane Taylor ( 1783 – 1824 ) – poet and author of the lyrics to Twinkle Twinkle Little Star