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:

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 was inspired by the apocryphal story that a young Jesus, accompanied by his uncle Joseph of Arimathea, a tin merchant, travelled to the area that is now England and visited Glastonbury during Jesus ' lost years.

In the most common interpretation of the poem, Blake implies that a visit of Jesus would briefly create heaven in England, in contrast to the " dark Satanic Mills " of the Industrial Revolution.

According to this view, the poem says that there may, or may not, have been a divine visit, when there was briefly heaven in England.

The events described in the poem take place in the late 5th century, after the Anglo-Saxons had begun their migration to England, and before the beginning of the 7th century, a time when the Anglo-Saxon people were either newly arrived or still in close contact with their Germanic kinsmen in Scandinavia and Northern Germany.

The poem may have been brought to England by people of Geatish origins.

This matches with the royal house of England in the early 11th Century being Danish, making the poem politically compatible with this time period.

The view of J. R. R. Tolkien is that the poem retains a much too genuine memory of Anglo-Saxon paganism to have been composed more than a few generations after the completion of the Christianisation of England around AD 700.

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.

The Preface and the poem are different in their locations, as the Preface discusses Coleridge's England while the poem discusses ancient China, but both discuss the role of the poem and his abilities.

* Alec Finlay has published two booklets on circle poem letterboxing: Isles, Arcs & Ways ( Isle of Thanet, England, 2005 ), ISBN 19044770404 ; and Hill of Streams ( Cairnhead, Scotland, 2008 ).

Among the most important works of this period is the poem Beowulf, which has achieved national epic status in England.

In 991, the Battle of Maldon between Viking raiders and the inhabitants of the town of Maldon in Essex, England was commemorated with a poem of the same name.

His first essay in poetry was at the age of fourteen, when a poem written by him appeared in the pages of Young England, December, 1861.

** Allen Ginsberg's poem Howl, printed in England, is seized by U. S. customs officials on the grounds of obscenity.

In the England of the Aesthetic Movement, Aubrey Beardsley's drawings attested profound kinship with the figure ; Olive Custance ( who would marry Oscar Wilde's lover, Lord Alfred Douglas ) published the poem " Pierrot " in 1897 ; and Ernest Dowson wrote the verse-play Pierrot of the Minute ( 1897, illustrated by Beardsley ), to which the composer Sir Granville Bantock would later contribute an orchestral prologue ( 1908 ).

" Crusoe in England ," a 183-line poem by Elizabeth Bishop, imagines Crusoe near the end of his life, recalling his time of exile with a mixture of bemusement and regret.

In Restoration England, John Dryden wrote a poem entitle " To Sir Robert Howard " that refers to Statius ' Achilleid ; Dryden criticizes Statius ' unfinished epic, calling it " too bold.

Huracan is referred to in Grace Nichols ' poem Hurricane Hits England where she makes references to the Caribbean gods.

* Carmen rhythmicum, rhythmic poem which describes a travel through western England and the way a wooden church was affected by a storm.

The phrase stately home is a quotation from the poem The Homes of England, which was originally published in Blackwood's Magazine in 1827.