Book 1 ( at the head of the Odyssean section ) opens with a storm which Juno, Aeneas ' enemy throughout the poem, stirs up against the fleet.

When she opens it and sees the ring, joy conquers her, and out of happiness she chants this poem ( Arabic ):

The play opens on 10 April 1809, in a garden front room of a country house in Derbyshire with tutor Septimus Hodge trying to distract his 13 year-old pupil Thomasina from her enquiries as to the meaning of a " carnal embrace " by challenging her to prove Fermat's Last Theorem so he can focus on reading the poem ' The Couch of Eros ', a piece written by another character, Mr. Ezra Chater.

Part of the original poem was used as a lyric in David Amram's jazz composition that opens the film.

The collection opens with James Elroy Flecker's poem " The Bridge of Fire ," which acts as a prologue and description of the events that occur.

The poem opens ( Book 1 ) with the disgraced Oedipus ' curse on his two sons, Eteocles and Polyneices, who have decided to hold the throne of Thebes in alternate years, one ruling, the other in exile.

The poem opens with a description of the state of Scotland at the death of Alexander III ( 1286 ) and concludes ( more or less ) with the death of Douglas and the burial of the Bruce's heart ( 1332 ).

: With work a new era opens in the history of European story telling … this poem reinvents the genre we call narrative romance ; in some important respects it also initiates the vernacular novel.

Galahad isolates himself because he is a “ self-centered figure .” Morris ’ poem places this emotional conflict at center stage, rather than concentrating upon Galahad ’ s prowess for defeating external enemies, and the cold and the frost of a Christmas period serve to reinforce his “ chilly isolation .” The poem opens on midwinter's night ; Sir Galahad has been sitting for six hours in a chapel, staring at the floor.

The poem opens with Saturn bemoaning the loss of his power, which is being overtaken by Jupiter.

This third stanza begins with an image not of sadness, but of " joyous fulness " similar in beauty to the image with which the poem opens.

Pushkin's poem opens with a lengthy tongue-in-cheek discussion of the merits of ottava rima.

The poem opens with a magnificent invocation to Venus, whom he addresses as an allegorical representation of the reproductive power, after which the business of the piece commences by an enunciation of the great proposition on the nature and being of the gods, which leads to a grand invective against the gigantic monster superstition, and a thrilling picture of the horrors which attends its tyrannous sway.

The poem itself opens and closes with the act of finding.

F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby opens with a poem entitled " Then Wear the Gold Hat ," purportedly written by Thomas Parke D ' Invilliers.

In addition, Eliot's poem The Waste Land opens and closes with references to Dante and Daniel.

The poem opens with a couplet and these two lines are used as the refrain in alternating stanzas.

What remains of the poem opens in the middle of a banquet.

In many of these calendars, each window opens to reveal an image, a poem, or a portion of a story such as the story of the Nativity of Jesus.

Willow's dream opens with Willow painting Sappho's love poem, Hymn to Aphrodite, in Greek onto Tara's back.

The poem opens with a panegyric on David Garrick, however, and bestows foolish praise on friends of the writer.

* Kipling's novel Kim ( 1900-1 ), opens with the above excerpt from his poem.

The poem opens in England during the reign of Athelwold, who is described in ideal terms as a just and virtuous king.