Works produced in this period include Filostrato and Teseida ( the sources for Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde and The Knight's Tale, respectively ), Filocolo, a prose version of an existing French romance, and La caccia di Diana, a poem in terza rima listing Neapolitan women.

We learn in the former poem that his father came from Cyme in Aeolis ( on the coast of Asia Minor, a little south of the island Lesbos ), and crossed the sea to settle at a hamlet, near Thespiae in Boeotia, named Ascra, " a cursed place, cruel in winter, hard in summer, never pleasant " ( Works, l. 640 ).

Despite the different subject matter between this poem and the Works and Days, most scholars, with some notable exceptions ( like Evelyn-White ), believe that the two works were written by the same man.

The Works and Days is a poem of over 800 verses which revolves around two general truths: labour is the universal lot of Man, but he who is willing to work will get by.

* Megala Erga or Great Works, a poem similar to the Works and Days, but presumably longer

The poem was printed four times in Coleridge's life, with the final printing in his Poetical Works of 1834.

In his poem, Works and Days, the ancient Greek poet Hesiod between 750 and 650 BC, defined five successive Ages of Man: 1.

The Greek poet Hesiod, around the 8th century BC, in his compilation of the mythological tradition ( the poem Works and Days ), explained that, prior to the present era, there were other four progressively more perfect ones, the oldest of which was the Golden Age.

A tendency to imitate other poets is not peculiar to Bacchylides, however – it was common in ancient poetry, as for example in a poem by Alcaeus ( fragment 347 ), which virtually quotes a passage from Hesiod ( Works and Days 582 – 8 ).

The Greek oral poet Hesiod refers to the Isles of the Blessed in his didactic poem Works and Days.

Baxter failed to complete his course work at the University of Otago, due to increasing alcoholism and was forced to take a range of odd jobs from 1945-7, most notably a cleaner at Chelsea Sugar Refinery, which inspired the poem " Ballad of the Stonegut Sugar Works ".

Works by the collective have included Dada cabaret, an interpretation of Allen Ginsberg's poem Howl, Crass ' Yes Sir I Will and an update of Dylan Thomas ' play Under Milk Wood, in which property developers move into the mythical Welsh village of Llareggub.

Fred N. Robinson ( Complete Works of Geoffrey Chaucer, 1957: 791 ) mentioned that " if the theories of allegory in the Parliament are rejected, the principal evidence usually relied on for dating the poem about 1381-2 disappears.

Works from this period, mostly written on Christian topics include: the poem Proglas as a foreword to the four Gospels, partial translations of the Bible into Old Church Slavonic, Zakon sudnyj ljudem, etc.

The original silver age ( Αργυρόν Γένος ) was the second of the five " Ages of Man " described by the ancient poet Hesiod in his poem Works and Days, following the Golden age and preceding the Bronze age.

( Note: This version is from The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson ( 1904 ), edited by Edward Waldo Emerson, who noted, " From a copy of this hymn as first printed on slips for distribution among the Concord people at the celebration of the completion of the monument on the battle-ground, I note the differences from the poem here given as finally revised by Mr. Emerson in the Selected Poems.

Rivendell Bicycle Works has a bicycle model, Betty Foy, named for the mother in the poem.

Rivendell Bicycle Works has a bicycle model, Betty Foy, named for the mother in the poem.

Virgil's model for composing a didactic poem in hexameters is the archaic Greek poet Hesiod, whose poem Works and Days shares with the Georgics the themes of man's relationship to the land and the importance of hard work.

The final version of the sonnet was copied into a volume of The Poetical Works of William Shakespeare, opposite Shakespeare's poem, A Lover's Complaint.

One of Herrera's most famous works, Obras de Garci Lasso con anotaciones de Fernando de Herrera al ilustrissimo i ecelentissimo Señor don Antonio de Guzman, Marques de Ayamonte, Governador del Estado de Milan, i Capitan General de Italia ( Works of Gracilaso de la Vega with Comments by Fernando de Herrera to the Most Illustrious and Excellent Don Antonio de Guzman, Marques of Ayamonte, Governor of the State of Milan, and Captain General of Italy ), written in 1580, displays not only Herrera's admiration for Garcilaso's poetry but also his mastery of the intricate details of said poet's rhythm, choice and order of words, coherency, meter, and the effects they have on the poem as a whole.

" Elegy to the Memory of an Unfortunate Lady " is a poem in heroic couplets by Alexander Pope, first published in his Works of 1717.

" Syringa " is the title of a poem by John Ashbery, from his collection Houseboat Days.

Edge provided " 22, 000 Days " ( featuring Thomas as lead voice with Hayward & Lodge ) while Thomas ' own contributions were the final portion of the set with his singing on the final two songs ; " Painted Smile ", " Reflective Smile " ( a poem narrated by a DJ friend of the band ) and " Veteran Cosmic Rocker ".

* 1872 Huttens letzte Tage ( Hutten's Last Days )-a short epic poem

His first Scots poem to be published ( The Daft Days ) appeared on 2 January 1772, and from that date on he submitted works in both languages.

His subsequent collection, the more difficult Houseboat Days ( 1977 ), reinforced Ashbery's reputation, as did 1979's As We Know, which contains the long, double-columned poem " Litany.

In 1839, when only 46, Lyte wrote a poem entitled " Declining Days.

The first Russian artwork to cause such an interest abroad, it gave birth to an anthologic poem by Alexander Pushkin, and inspired the hugely successful novel The Last Days of Pompeii

* O Sol nas Noites e o Luar nos Dias ( The Sun in the Nights And The Moon During The Days ) ( complete poem ), 1993 ; 2000

* In her poem " In the Days of Prismatic Color ," Marianne Moore writes that " Truth is no Apollo / Belvedere, no formal thing.

Mahler's self-composed text for the first of his Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen (' Songs of a Travelling Journeyman ', regularly translated as ' Songs of a Wayfarer '; 1884 – 1885 ) is clearly based on the Wunderhorn poem ' Wann mein Schatz '; his first genuine settings of Wunderhorn texts, however, are found in the Lieder und Gesänge (' Songs and Airs '), published in 1892 and later renamed by the publisher as Lieder und Gesänge aus der Jugendzeit (' Songs and Airs from Days of Youth ').

The Works and Days (, Erga kai Hēmerai ) is a didactic poem of some 800 verses written by the ancient Greek poet Hesiod around 700 BC.

This is brought out in the next to last chapter of the book, `` A Hero's Funeral '', written in the form of an impassioned prose poem.

Carl says it is the greatest poem ever written to the guitar because he has never heard of any other poem to that subtle instrument.

In his recent book, Hurray For Anything ( 1957 ), one of the most important short poems -- and it is the title poem for one of the long jazz arrangements -- is written for recital with jazz.

There was one sterile period: only one poem is dated between 1872 and 1882 and, except for the poems written on the trip to Italy in 1887, very few from 1882 to 1890.

It is obviously a young man's poem, written out of books and not out of experience ; ;

An American in Paris is a symphonic tone poem by the American composer George Gershwin, written in 1928.

There are also autobiographical sections in Alcuin's poem on York and in the Vita Alcuini, a Life written for him at Ferrières in the 820s, possibly based in part on the memories of Sigwulf, one of Alcuin's pupils.

Stylistic evidence suggests that the poem ( with most of Plato's other alleged epigrams ) was actually written some time after Plato had died: its form is that of the Hellenistic erotic epigram, which did not become popular until after 300 BC.

The poem was written in Sapphic stanzas, a verse form popularly associated with his compatriot, Sappho, but in which he too excelled, here paraphrased in English to suggest the same rhythms.

If a poet writes down several lines, intending them as a poem, the very procedure by which it is written makes it a poem.

His monument is adorned by a poem written by Joseph Weigl, one of his pupils:

They were taken from the " Ode to Joy ", a poem written by Friedrich Schiller in 1785 and revised in 1803, with additions made by the composer.

Similarly, in 1971, Alistair Campbell stated that the apologue technique used in Beowulf is so infrequent in the epic tradition aside from when Virgil uses it that the poet who composed Beowulf could not have written the poem in such a manner without first coming across Virgil's writings.

The celebration of deeds of ancient Danish and Swedish heroes, the poem beginning with a tribute to the royal line of Danish kings, but written in the dominant literary dialect of Anglo-Saxon England, for a number of scholars points to the 11th century reign of Canute, the Danish king whose empire included all of these areas, and whose primary place of residence was in England, as the most likely time of the poem's creation, the poem being written as a celebration of the king's heroic royal ancestors, perhaps intended as a form of artistic flattery by one of his English courtiers.

Apart from a short poem attributed to Mark of Monte Cassino, the only ancient account of Benedict is found in the second volume of Pope Gregory I's four-book Dialogues, thought to have been written in 593.

The origin of the nickname appears to be a poem entitled “ The Pilgrims At Home ” written by Edwin Fitzwilliam that was sung at the 1907 home opener (“ Rory O ’ More ” melody ).

" Casey at the Bat: A Ballad of the Republic Sung in the Year 1888 " is a baseball poem written in 1888 by Ernest Thayer.

His long poem The Hashish-Eater ; Or, the Apocalypse of Evil was written in 1920.

It was almost certainly written within three or four years of Columba's death and is the earliest vernacular poem in European history.

*" Cimmeria " — A poem written in 1932.