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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
LOST WINE, by PAUL VALERY Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: One day I cast into the sea Last Line: Figures of greatest profundity. Subject(s): Drinks & Drinking; Wings; Wine | |||
One day I cast into the sea (But I no longer remember under what skies) As an offering unto Nonentity A little wine of a sort I prize. Who, O liquor, wished you to part? Perhaps you were an omen I could not divine: Perhaps concerned with my own heart, Thinking of blood, and pouring wine? I watched the sea resume, After a rosy spume, Its usual transparency. ... Lost the wine, drunk the waves! I saw leaping from sea-caves Figures of greatest profundity. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...A CUP OF TREMBLINGS by JOHN HOLLANDER VINTAGE ABSENCE by JOHN HOLLANDER SENT WITH A BOTTLE OF BURGUNDY FOR A BIRTHDAY by JOHN HOLLANDER TO A CIVIL SERVANT by EDMUND JOHN ARMSTRONG WINE by FRIEDRICH MARTIN VON BODENSTEDT THE GOOD FELLOW by ALEXANDER BROME WHEN A WOMAN LOVES A MAN by DAVID LEHMAN |
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