Who is Mihai Eminescu

Mihai Eminescu (Romanian pronunciation: [miˈhaj emiˈnesku] (listen); born Mihail Eminovici; 15 January 1850 – 15 June 1889) was a Romanian Romantic poet from Moldavia, novelist, and journalist, generally regarded as the most famous and influential Romanian poet. Eminescu was an active member of the Junimea literary society and worked as an editor for the newspaper Timpul ("The Time"), the official newspaper of the Conservative Party (1880–1918). His poetry was first published when he was 16 and he went to Vienna, Austria to study when he was 19. The poet's manuscripts, containing 46 volumes and approximately 14,000 pages, were offered by Titu Maiorescu as a gift to the Romanian Academy during the meeting that was held on 25 January 1902. Notable works include Luceafărul (The Vesper/...
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Mihai Eminescu Poems

• Sonnet V
  The years have passed like clouds across the dale;
  The years have gone and will return no more,
  For they no longer move me, as the lore
  Of legend, and of song, and doina's tale...
• Of All The Ships
  Of all the ships the ocean rolls
  How many find untimely graves
  Piled high by you upon the shoals,
  O waves and winds, o winds and waves? ...
• The Vesper
  Once on a time, as poets sing
  High tales with fancy laden,
  Born of a very noble king
  There lived a wondrous maiden. ...
• The Brazen Bells Of Midnight..
  The brazen bells of midnight upon the darkness toll,
  But sleep, life's custom agent, won't take from me his dole;
  Down paths so many follow, death would my spirit lead,
  And death, when all considered, resembles life indeed; ...
• To The Star
  So far it is athwart the blue
  To where yon star appears,
  That for its light to reach our view
  Has needed thousand years. ...

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