Crossword-Solution: MIMNERMUS
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Poet’s word, with inverted comma, for the end of the day
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Hint 1 meaning
The old plural of Eye.
Hint 2 anagram
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Sentences with MIMNERMUS (5)
Laman Blanchard [1804-1845] MIMNERMUS IN CHURCH You promise heavens free from strife, Pure truth, and perfect change of will; But sweet, sweet is this human life, So sweet, I fain would breathe it still: Your chilly stars I can forego, This warm kind world is all I know.
Another very characteristic lament for the passing of youth is left us by the early elegiac poet Mimnermus.
Mimnermus is a principal model of the Latin elegiac writers--and Propertius compares his love verses with those of Homer.
Mimnermus did not invent the elegiac form (for it was first applied to warlike inspiration by another Ionian poet, Callinus); but he seems the founder of what we now call the elegiac spirit in its association of the sentiment of melancholy with the passion of love.
Here, for example, is a poem by Mimnermus characteristic of this mood of the Greeks: "O golden Love, what life, what joy but thine? Come death, when thou art gone, and make an end! When gifts and tokens are no longer mine, Nor the sweet intimacies of a friend.