Foebus abierat
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Foebus abierat ("Phoebus had gone") is a medieval Latin poem, authorship unknown, composed near the end of the 10th century in Northern Italy. Described as "hauntingly beautiful"[1] and "one of the joys of medieval poetry,"[2] it is an erotic dream-vision lyric spoken by a woman who grieves the departure of her lover Phoebus, brother of the Moon. Although the language is ecclesiastical Latin, none of its content is explicitly Christian.
An English translation of Foebus abierat by the Irish poet Eavan Boland was published in the April 2008 issue of Poetry magazine.[3] Boland describes the poem as the "long-ago cry of a woman finding and losing a body and soul":
It is rapid, passionate; a quick arc of sounds and meaning done in a language which does not usually bend to speed. Its edges are burned by vision rather than explanation.
The literary scholar Jane Stevenson conjectured that this "highly original poem" was written by a nun.[4]