Sappho, a poet from the island of Lesbos, wrote many love poems addressed to women and girls.
Her poems address a wide range of themes spanning childhood, adolescence and young adulthood.
And then I find a poem addressed to me:
These include a complex symbolic poem addressed to his sister.
The book's poems address many common childhood concerns and also presents purely fanciful stories.
Her poems directly address questions of female desire and challenge the accepted position of women.
The poem specifically addresses future readers who will look back on it, and the ferry ride, years hence.
The poems themselves often address another person, but in the main avoid biographical reference.
These are not prayers in the sense of traditional Judaism, but personal poems addressed to God.
Snodgrass's poems often address a "you" of uncertain identity and character.