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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
AT NIMES, by GUILLAUME APOLLINAIRE Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: I enlisted under a beautiful sky Last Line: I hail you from afar great tower oh lovely rose Alternate Author Name(s): Kostrowitzky, Wilhelm Apollina | |||
I committed myself under the most beautiful of skies In Nice, the Navy with a victorious name Lost among 900 anonymous drivers I am a carter of the nine cartage of N?mes Love says Stay here But over there the shells Ardently and relentlessly espouse goals I'm waiting for the spring to command it to go away Towards the glorious north, the intrepid bleusaille The 3 seated servants nod their foreheads Where shine their clear eyes like my spurs A nice afternoon on duty in the stable I hear the artillery trumpets sound I admire the cheerfulness of this detachment Who will join our beautiful regiment at the front The territorial eats a salad Anchovies talking about his sick wife 4 pointers fixed the level bubbles Which moved like the eyes of horses The good singer Girault sings to us after 9 o'clock A great opera aria you listening to it you cry I stroke the little gray cannon with my hand Gray as the water of the Seine and I dream of Paris But this pale wounded man told me in the canteen Shells in the night Argentinian splendor I slowly chew my portion of beef I walk alone at night from 5 to 9 I saddle my horse we roam the countryside I greet you in the distance, beautiful rose, O Magne tower | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...AUTUMN MALADE by GUILLAUME APOLLINAIRE COMPANY COMMANDER by GUILLAUME APOLLINAIRE DUSK; TO MADEMOISELLE MARIE LAURENCIN by GUILLAUME APOLLINAIRE FAREWELL by GUILLAUME APOLLINAIRE HILLS by GUILLAUME APOLLINAIRE HUNTING HORNS by GUILLAUME APOLLINAIRE MARIZIBILL by GUILLAUME APOLLINAIRE MEADOW-SAFFRON by GUILLAUME APOLLINAIRE RHENISH AUTUMN; TO TOUSSAINT LUCA by GUILLAUME APOLLINAIRE SALOME by GUILLAUME APOLLINAIRE |
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