Classic and Contemporary Poetry
VERSAILLES, by AGNES MARY F. ROBINSON Poet's Biography First Line: The king is dead who planned these terraces Last Line: Abandoned by the long-departed god! Alternate Author Name(s): Duclaux, Madame Emile; Darmesteter, Mary; Robinson, A. Mary F. Subject(s): Versailles, Frances | ||||||||
"Le monde est l'oeuvre d'un grand Architecte qui est mort avant de l'avoir acheve." -- B. CONSTANT. THE king is dead who planned these terraces; The turf has grown to meadow-grass again; The lake is rank beneath the untended trees, And down the mouldering statues drips the rain. The king is dead. Ay, he, with all his kind, Is absolutely vanished, lost, and gone, And not a trace of him remains behind; But the forsaken palace lingers on. How desolate! The weary waters drowned In mist, the empty alleys chill and frore, The vast and melancholy pleasure-ground Where the forgotten monarch comes no more. How like an older Folly, planned no less For beauty, where a greater monarch trod, And now, grown old, in its extreme distress Abandoned by the long-departed God! | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE GREAT PALACES OF VERSAILLES by RITA DOVE CHARLES EDWARD AT VERSAILLES ON THE ANNIVERSARY OF CULLODEN by WILLIAM EDMONSTOUNE AYTOUN THE NUN AT COURT by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN LITTLE GREGORY by THEODORE BOTREL VERSAILLES (1784) by STOPFORD AUGUSTUS BROOKE JUNE '51 by WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR ADDRESS TO THE ORANGE-TREE AT VERSAILLES by HORACE SMITH AT THE BARRICADE by MARGARET LOUISA WOODS FRANCOIS COUPERIN AT VERSAILLES by ROGER CALDWELL AN ORCHARD AT AVIGNON by AGNES MARY F. ROBINSON |
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