The eddic poem Grímnismál describes twelve divine dwellings beginning in stanza 5 with:

This view is presented in English poet John Keats ' poem To Autumn, where he describes the season as a time of bounteous fecundity, a time of ' mellow fruitfulness '.

It has also been argued that this is the third part of the poem since it describes the settings during the time lapse before the final battle between Beowulf and the Dragon.

The poet also describes the horror of death in battle, a theme continued from the second part of the poem, through the Last Survivor ’ s eyes.

Later in the work, when Snorri describes Baldr, he gives a longer description, citing Grímnismál, though he does not name the poem:

A passage in the Poetic Edda poem Sigrdrífumál describes runes being graven on the sun, on the ear of one of the sun-horses and on the hoofs of the other, on Sleipnir's teeth, on bear's paw, on eagle's beak, on wolf's claw, and on several other things including on Bragi's tongue.

In the body of the poem, Odin describes at great length the cosmogony of the worlds, the dwelling places of its inhabitants, and talks about himself and his many guises.

A poem from the 9th century Ynglingatal that forms the basis of Ynglinga saga is then quoted that describes Hel's taking of Dyggvi:

Pattinapalai, a Tamil poem of the 2nd century CE, describes goods from Kedaram heaped in the broad streets of the Chola capital.

* Pablo Neruda's poem I Explain a Few Things describes Francisco Franco and his allies as "... Jackals that the jackal would drive off ...".

The first stanza of the poem describes Khan's pleasure dome built alongside a sacred river fed by a powerful fountain.

The poem expands on the gothic hints of the first stanza as the narrator explores the dark chasm in the midst of Xanadu's gardens, and describes the surrounding area as both " savage " and " holy ".

The woman herself is similar to the way Coleridge describes Lewti in another poem he wrote around the same time Lewti.

He continued by discussing the preface: " despite its obvious undependability as a guide to the actual process of the poem's composition, the preface can still, in Wheeler's words, lead us ' to ponder why Coleridge chose to write a preface ... ' What the preface describes, of course, is not the actual process by which the poem came into being, but an analogue of poetic creation as logos, a divine ' decree ' or fiat which transforms the Word into the world.

" Adam Sisman, in 2006, questioned the nature of the poem itself: " No one even knows whether it is complete ; Coleridge describes it as a ' fragment ,' but there is a case for doubting this.

Rich with allusions to Christian teaching, the poem describes a mother drowning her illegitimate infant and its being netted by fishermen.

In the poem, Fjölsviðr describes to the hero Svipdagr that Sinmara keeps the weapon Lævateinn within a chest, locked with nine strong locks ( due to significant translation differences, two translations of the stanza are provided here ):

The term " elegy ," which originally denoted a type of poetic meter ( elegiac meter ), commonly describes a poem of mourning.

He expressed these beliefs in his poem Mythopoeia circa 1931, which describes myth-making as an act of " sub-creation " within God's primary creation.

A poem discovered in October 2010, Last letter, describes what happened during the three days leading up to Plath's suicide.

The rediscovered section describes Alice's encounter with a wasp wearing a yellow wig, and includes a full previously unpublished poem.

His first known works were written when he was seventeen, and included a poem — heavily influenced by Percy Bysshe Shelley — that describes a magician who set up a throne in central Asia.

The Poetic Edda poem Hávamál describes how Odin sacrificed himself by hanging from a tree, making this tree Odin's gallows.

In stanza 137 of the poem Hávamál, Odin describes how he once sacrificed himself to himself by hanging on a tree.

Eliot's poem " Lune de Miel " ( written in French ) describes a honeymooning couple from Indiana sleeping not far from the ancient Basilica of Sant ' Apollinare in Classe, ( just outside Ravenna ), famous for the carved capitals of its columns, which depict acanthus leaves buffeted by the wind, unlike the leaves in repose on similar columns elsewhere.

In the poem Grímnismál, Odin ( disguised as Grímnir ) tells the young Agnar that every day Freyja allots seats to half of those that are slain in her hall Fólkvangr, while Odin owns the other half.

His poem ( and song ) " Auld Lang Syne " is often sung at Hogmanay ( the last day of the year ), and " Scots Wha Hae " served for a long time as an unofficial national anthem of the country.

Shih-t ' ou Hsi-ch ' ien's poem " The Harmony of Difference and Sameness " Sandokai is an important early expression of Zen Buddhism and is chanted in Sōtō temples to this day.

* Wendy Cope's poem " Strugnell's Rubiyat " is a close parody of the FitzGerald translation, relocated to modern day Tulse Hill.

Aboard the ship the next day, Key wrote a poem on the back of a letter he had kept in his pocket.

Despite the polished and complex nature of the Aeneid ( legend stating that Virgil wrote only three lines of the poem each day ), the number of half-complete lines and the abrupt ending are generally seen as evidence that Virgil died before he could finish the work.

Aeneas's leaving the underworld through the gate of false dreams has been variously interpreted: One suggestion is that the passage simply refers to the time of day at which Aeneas returned to the world of the living ; another is that it implies that all of Aeneas's actions in the remainder of the poem are somehow " false ".

In Willow's dream, she moves from an intimate moment painting a love poem by Sappho on Tara's bare back, to attending the first day of drama class to learn that she is to be in a play performed immediately for which she does not know the lines or understand.

" The legendary drinking, feasting and boasting of warriors in the mead hall is echoed in the mead hall Dyn Eidyn ( modern day Edinburgh ), and in the epic poem Y Gododdin, both dated around AD 700.

Steffens and Oehlenschläger met one day at Dreier's Club, and after a conversation of sixteen hours the latter went home, suppressed his two coming volumes, and wrote at a sitting his splendid poem Guldhornene, in a manner totally new to Danish literature.

The poem may also have been inspired by the legends of the Wandering Jew, who was forced to wander the earth until Judgement Day for taunting Jesus on the day of the Crucifixion, and of the Flying Dutchman.

Dow included Latin distichs and quotations in praise of Byrd in his manuscript collection of music ( GB Och 984-8 ) while Baldwin included a long doggerel poem in his commonplace book ( GB Lbm Roy App 24 d 2 ) ranking Byrd at the head of the musicians of his day:

The next day, he composed the poem while sitting in the back of an ambulance.

He added the poem to his Dagh-werck, which he left unfinished: the day he has described has not ended yet, but his Sterre is already dead.

In stanza 24 of the poem Vafþrúðnismál, the god Odin ( disguised as " Gagnráðr ") asks the jötunn Vafþrúðnir from where the day comes, and the night and its tides.

The day after his death, together with news of his death, his most famous poem ' Into Battle ' was published for the first time, in The Times.

A poet, Francis Miles Finch, happened to be in town that day and commemorated the occasion with the poem " The Blue and the Grey ".

* Emily Dickinson's poem " Apparently With No Surprise " depicts God as approving of suffering in the world, relating the tale of a flower " beheaded " by a late frost as the sun " measure off another day for an approving God ".

On a clear day, it is possible to see the opposite coastline and shoreline buildings with the naked eye, and the lights of land at night, as in Matthew Arnold's poem " Dover Beach ".

On October 3, 1957, Judge Clayton W. Horn ruled that the poem was not obscene, and " Howl " went on to become the most popular American poem to the present day.

Set during one day in Dublin in June 1904, in it Joyce creates parallels with Homer's epic poem the Odyssey.

The volume contained a satirical poem on a politician of the day and had to be withdrawn under threat of a libel action.

Shih-t ' ou Hsi-ch ' ien's ( Shitou Xiqien, Sekito Kisen, 700 – 790 ) poem " The Harmony of Difference and Sameness " is an important early expression of Zen Buddhism and is chanted in Sōtō temples to this day.