Longfellow Serenade's lyrics are a reference.
 His love for Fanny is evident in the following lines from his only love poem, the sonnet "The Evening Star" which he wrote in October 1845: "O my beloved, my sweet Hesperus! My morning and my evening star of love!" He once attended a ball without her and noted, "The lights seemed dimmer, the music sadder, the flowers fewer, and the women less fair
 Lyrics often contain political, social, and economic themesas well as aesthetic elementsand so can communicate culturally significant messages

