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Poem by Hadrian

According to the Historia Augusta, Hadrian composed the following poem shortly before his death:

The poem has enjoyed remarkable popularity, but uneven critical acclaim. According to Aelius Spartianus, the alleged author of Hadrian's biography in the Historia Augusta, Hadrian "wrote also similar poems in Greek, not much better than this one". T. S. Eliot 's poem "Animula" may have been inspired by Hadrian's, though the relationship is not unambiguous.