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Author: DESNOS, ROBERT Matches Found: 240 Desnos, Robert Poet's Biography 240 poems available by this author 10-JUN-36 First Line: At the bend in the road Last Line: Life is beautiful and the air is good Subject(s): Surrealism ABOUT ONESELF First Line: Iron anemone sheet Last Line: A red flag folded back up Subject(s): Surrealism ACROSS THE BRIDGE First Line: The door is shut on the idol of lead Last Line: Please, let her sleep Subject(s): Surrealism ALMONYMOUS First Line: Expecting breton Last Line: Pierce my thoughts expecting %breton ALMONYMOUS First Line: Waiting %braiding the moments Last Line: Pierce my thoughts waiting ANCIENT CLAMOR First Line: A stalk stripped of its leaves in my hand is the world Last Line: Virgin flower of coal kind-hearted virgin Subject(s): Surrealism ANNOUNCEMENT First Line: On the deck of a ship a dressmaker is stitching Last Line: You'll put on your out-of-this-world dress suit %and everyone will be quite happy Subject(s): Surrealism APPARITION Poem Text First Line: Born from mud, sprung heavenwards Last Line: An immense bouquet of red roses Subject(s): Surrealism; Mud; Sleep ARBITRARY FATE Poem Text First Line: The time of the crusades is coming Last Line: We will brighten with lights unknown up to now Subject(s): Surrealism; Dreams ARBITRARY FATE First Line: The time of the crusades is coming Last Line: And do not dare gnaw those breasts %those luscious breasts Subject(s): Surrealism ARS POETICA Poem Text First Line: Across the snout Last Line: I am the verse witness of my master's breath Subject(s): Surrealism; World War Ii; Poetry & Ports; Second World War ARS POETICA First Line: Across the snout Last Line: And one hand in mine %and the joy of living %I am the verse witness of my master's breath Subject(s): Surrealism; World War Ii AS BEAUTIFUL AS YOU ARE Last Line: Go away from me Subject(s): Surrealism AT DAWN First Line: The morning shatters like a stack of plates Last Line: Even if she holds out her hand %and sleeps come the fresh morning %in her filthy dress %on a barren Subject(s): Surrealism AT DAYBREAK Poem Text First Line: Will the schist brighten the white night of cork? Last Line: Not far from here a grass is drying by the roadside Subject(s): Surrealism AT DAYBREAK First Line: Will the schist light up the cork's sleepless night Last Line: Not very far from here the grass is wilting at the edge of a Subject(s): Surrealism AT FIVE O'CLOCK First Line: At five o'clock in the morning in a new and empty street Last Line: Tell me what happens in the lives of men Subject(s): Surrealism AT WORLD'S END First Line: They're jawing away in the black street AWAKENINGS Poem Text First Line: It's strange how you wake sometimes in the middle of the night in the middle of sleep someone has kn Last Line: I'll never know how do you recognize yoursel Subject(s): Surrealism AWAKENINGS First Line: How strange it is to wake up sometimes in the middle of the night Last Line: Me, I will never know if you recognize yourself Subject(s): Surrealism BOTTLE IN THE RIVER First Line: To guess there's a woman walking Last Line: Behind which it's easy to guess there's a woman walking %easy to walk with the woman who can guess Subject(s): Surrealism BRIEF SONGS First Line: You've been singing for so long Last Line: All the glory of spring Subject(s): Surrealism BUT I WAS NOT UNDERSTOOD Poem Text First Line: What corolla have you hidden your thumbs in Last Line: But wipe your hands before praying Subject(s): Surrealism BUT I WAS NOT UNDERSTOOD First Line: What corolla have you hidden your thumbs in Last Line: But wipe your hands before praying Subject(s): Surrealism CASCADE Poem Text First Line: What sort of arrow split the sky and this rock Last Line: Sign of the return of archers and patriotic songs Subject(s): Surrealism CASCADE First Line: What sort of arrow split the sky and this rock Last Line: Sign of the return of archers and patriotic songs Subject(s): Surrealism CLOSED ROOM First Line: The room is closed and empty, very empty Last Line: I know there is no longer time Subject(s): Surrealism COLD THROATS First Line: We died like the swallows who always are off in Last Line: The compass announces I'm back where I've been COLD THROATS First Line: We died like the swallows who always are off in Last Line: The compass announces I'm back where I've been COMING DOWN HILLSIDES IN SPRING First Line: Coming down hillsides in the spring Last Line: I will never know Subject(s): Surrealism COMING HARVESTS First Line: Hail, coming harvests, scented, bloody Last Line: It cheats or abandons me Subject(s): Surrealism COMME First Line: Come, one englishman says to another, and the englishman comes Subject(s): Surrealism COMRADES First Line: Paper, go fold yourself, be a rose and a rainbow Last Line: And offer death nothing more than a sad feast and poor hospi Subject(s): Surrealism CUCKOO First Line: It was all like a childhood picture Last Line: Nights after days %days after nights Subject(s): Surrealism DEVIL FEAST First Line: The last drop of wine flares up at the bottom of the glass Last Line: Across the dark fields Subject(s): Surrealism DON JUAN'S CITY First Line: Blind men, cripples, idiots Last Line: A hole, nothing but an empty hole, a tiny hole Subject(s): Surrealism DOOR TO THE SECOND INFINITY Poem Text First Line: The inkwell periscope lies in wait around the bend Last Line: With a direct line / to fear Subject(s): Surrealism; Death; Identity; Poetry & Poets DOOR TO THE SECOND INFINITY First Line: The inkwell periscope lies in wait around the bend Last Line: But I'm the inventor of a telephone %made of crystal and %english tobacco %with a direct line %to fe Subject(s): Surrealism DOVE IN THE ARCH Poem Text First Line: Cursed!/be the father of the bride DREAM IN A CELLAR First Line: So many flasks were shattered in this cellar Last Line: Dreaming again and again of the kindness of a warm bed Subject(s): Surrealism DREAM, THE NIGHT OF MAY 27-28, 1923 First Line: I got up early. I was following the rue de rivoli, which Last Line: Locus solus and danton's head DREAM, THE NIGHT OF MAY 27-28, 1923 First Line: I got up early that morning. I was following the rue de rivoli Last Line: Duel with kings, one guillotines them,' thinking of the first act of locus solus and danton's head DYING First Line: To die without regret you have to be so weary Last Line: Will know a rest as empty as the ruins Subject(s): Surrealism EARTH First Line: Day after day Last Line: We're in it for all time Subject(s): Surrealism EBONY LIFE Poem Text First Line: A frightening stillness will mark that day Last Line: And that the voice would look kindly on me Subject(s): Surrealism EBONY LIFE First Line: A frightening stillness will mark that day Last Line: And that the voice would look kindly on me Subject(s): Surrealism ENCOUNTERS First Line: On your way Last Line: But your name is dirty %on your way Subject(s): Surrealism EPITAPH Poem Text Recitation First Line: I lived in those times. For a thousand years / I have been dead Last Line: The seasons provided their birds ancd their honey Subject(s): Surrealism EPITAPH First Line: I lived in these times and I've been dead Last Line: Nothing is left of my spirit or my body Subject(s): Surrealism EPITAPH First Line: I lived in those times. For a thousand years %I have been dead Last Line: Nothing survives of my spirit or my body Subject(s): Surrealism EVENING First Line: In times past a heart beat in this breast Last Line: And everything will start all over again Subject(s): Surrealism FAIRY TALE Poem Text First Line: Many times upon a time FANTOMAS, A COMPLAINT First Line: Listen, children, and you shall hear Last Line: Can it be you, fantomas FANTOMAS, A COMPLAINT: 1 First Line: Listen, children, and you shall hear Last Line: Of the criminal fantomas FANTOMAS, A COMPLAINT: 10 First Line: Toulouche, the old woman Last Line: A treasure in the dead man's guts FANTOMAS, A COMPLAINT: 11 First Line: The great catastrophe Last Line: And agent, who arranged it all FANTOMAS, A COMPLAINT: 12 First Line: A cholera epidemic Last Line: Who did it? Fantomas FANTOMAS, A COMPLAINT: 13 First Line: He killed a cabby, sat him Last Line: That a dead man drove, clip-clop FANTOMAS, A COMPLAINT: 14 First Line: Be on guard against black roses Last Line: He commits from time to time FANTOMAS, A COMPLAINT: 15 First Line: Fandor who is heroic Last Line: Played on the brave fandor FANTOMAS, A COMPLAINT: 16 First Line: Who stole the gold every night Last Line: To be wasted, when it's so refined FANTOMAS, A COMPLAINT: 17 First Line: He tackled the queen of holland Last Line: He didn't. He got clean away FANTOMAS, A COMPLAINT: 18 First Line: Here's another smart thing he did Last Line: The prints pointed to, not he FANTOMAS, A COMPLAINT: 19 First Line: A phantom had been seen Last Line: The scene of his latest coup FANTOMAS, A COMPLAINT: 2 First Line: Lady beltham is his mistress Last Line: To the bottom of the ocean blue FANTOMAS, A COMPLAINT: 20 First Line: In england all the policemen Last Line: Another famous british blunder FANTOMAS, A COMPLAINT: 21 First Line: It is a dark and stormy night Last Line: Fantomas escapes again FANTOMAS, A COMPLAINT: 22 First Line: A battlship was cruising Last Line: That sore loser, fantomas FANTOMAS, A COMPLAINT: 23 First Line: Deeper than the plummet goes Last Line: For their bodies were never found FANTOMAS, A COMPLAINT: 24 First Line: His gang, young sugarcake Last Line: Are any of them doing time FANTOMAS, A COMPLAINT: 25 First Line: I wrote this for the people Last Line: Life, now I'll end my song FANTOMAS, A COMPLAINT: 3 First Line: He must have killed a hundred Last Line: In makeup, with a rubber face FANTOMAS, A COMPLAINT: 4 First Line: In the storm a lighthouse crumbles Last Line: Fantomas, juve, fandor FANTOMAS, A COMPLAINT: 5 First Line: The monster has a daughter Last Line: Like pocahontas she shouted, 'stop FANTOMAS, A COMPLAINT: 6 First Line: Left at the station, a bloody Last Line: Children, it's fantomas FANTOMAS, A COMPLAINT: 7 First Line: The prisoner in a bell Last Line: On the heads of the pallbearers FANTOMAS, A COMPLAINT: 8 First Line: One fine day the fountains Last Line: A king captive, and he wept FANTOMAS, A COMPLAINT: 9 First Line: A very important secret Last Line: Juve arrested him, without fear FANTOMAS, A COMPLAINT: FINALE First Line: The huge shadow that stretches Last Line: Can it be you, fantomas FATE Poem Text First Line: I've wished for your death and nothing can keep it from coming prematurely Subject(s): Death; Dead, The FEAST OF CORPUS DIABOLI Poem Text First Line: The last droplet of wine catches fire in the bottom of the glass Last Line: Contemplate this solitary couple dancing Subject(s): Surrealism; Dancing & Dancers FIRE First Line: And from the shores of the ocean to the mediterranean Last Line: Would've been with us for spain for republican spain Subject(s): Surrealism FOUR SEASONS First Line: She is born at the wane of autumn Last Line: To be, to be, and to have been Subject(s): Surrealism FROM THE MARBLE ROSE TO THE IRON ROSE Poem Text First Line: The huge white marble rose was alone on the empty square Last Line: The iron rose Subject(s): Surrealism FROM THE MARBLE ROSE TO THE IRON ROSE First Line: The huge white marble rose was alone on the empty square Last Line: Blotting-paper rose the cloud rose the wooden rose the iron rose Subject(s): Surrealism GOOD DAY GOOD EVENING Poem Text First Line: It's night be the flame GREAT DAYS OF THE POET First Line: The disciples of light never invented anything but Last Line: Because you never know Subject(s): Surrealism HALFWAY First Line: There is a precise moment in time Last Line: That would be better HALFWAY First Line: There is a precise moment in time Last Line: That would be better HELLO FROM THE VALLEY First Line: At the bend of the mountain pass Last Line: And one of them raises a lamb to the sky surprised to be ali Subject(s): Surrealism HELLO, GOODBYE First Line: It is night be the flame Last Line: Will stroll over your tombstones Subject(s): Surrealism HOMICIDAL AIR First Line: The temple entrance puts on eyeliner Last Line: Handsome mountain-climber in the armor of the white prince Subject(s): Surrealism I HAVE DREAMED OF YOU SO MUCH THAT YOU ARE NO LONGER REAL Last Line: Over the sundial of your life I'VE DREAMED OF YOU SO MUCH Poem Text First Line: I've dreamed of you so much you're losing your reality Last Line: The hair, the teeth, the eyes Subject(s): Surrealism I'VE DREAMED OF YOU SO MUCH First Line: I've dreamed of you so much you're losing your reality Last Line: On the sundial of your life Subject(s): Surrealism IDEAL MISTRESS Poem Text First Line: I was delayed that afternoon because I had brushed the teeth of a pretty animal that I'm patiently t IDEE FIXE First Line: I bring you a little bit of seaweed tangled with sea spray Last Line: But your hair so well-braided is shaped like a hand Subject(s): Surrealism IDENTITY OF IMAGES First Line: I am fighting furiously with animals and bottles Last Line: Sonorous coal coal pitiless coal IDENTITY OF IMAGES First Line: I am fighting furiously with animals and bottles Last Line: Sonorous coal coal pitiless coal IDENTY OF IMAGES Poem Text First Line: I fight furiously with animals and bottles Last Line: Sonorous coal coal pitiless coal Subject(s): Surrealism IDENTY OF IMAGES First Line: I fight furiously with animals and bottles Last Line: And the terrible reflection of its embers on my monotonous path %coal resonant coal merciless coal Subject(s): Surrealism IF YOU ONLY KNEW Poem Text First Line: Far from me and like the stars, the sea Last Line: If you knew Subject(s): Surrealism IF YOU ONLY KNEW First Line: Far from me and like the stars, the sea Last Line: If you only knew Subject(s): Surrealism IF, LIKE THE WINDS DRAWN ON THE COMPASS FACE Last Line: An abdurd presence imposes itself on us %material, indifferent, and weithout rest Subject(s): Surrealism IN LONG AGO Poem Text First Line: In long ago I passed by the castle of leaves Last Line: In long ago you loved me Subject(s): Surrealism; Love; Past IN MY GLASS First Line: What are you doing in my glass little giraffe Last Line: With all the flowers of my immense love for life Subject(s): Surrealism INTERSECTION First Line: In this intersection there's an air of memories Last Line: Irremediably lost in the agony of forgetting Subject(s): Surrealism LAST POEM First Line: I have so fiercely dreamed of you Last Line: To be shade cast time and time again %into your sun-transfigured life LEGACY First Line: And here, father hugo, is your name on the walls Last Line: The lawyer has a name: france; and the legacy: freedom Subject(s): Surrealism LET'S BE SERIOUS First Line: When death sets its scales of justice on my breast Last Line: My very heart that alone drives me to despair Subject(s): Surrealism LETTER TO YOUKI Poem Text First Line: My love Last Line: I've got another science I can confuse him with Subject(s): France; Love; World War Ii; Second World War LETTER TO YOUKI First Line: My love Last Line: The censor. A thousand kisses. And have you received the little hope %chest that I sent to the hotel Subject(s): France; Love; World War Ii LITERATURE Poem Text First Line: Today I'd like to write beautiful verses Last Line: I've got another science I can confuse him with Subject(s): Surrealism; Poetry & Poets LITERATURE First Line: Today I'd like to write beautiful verses Last Line: I've got another science I can confuse him with Subject(s): Surrealism LONG LONG AGO Poem Text First Line: Long long ago I went through the castle of leaves Last Line: Long long ago you loved me Subject(s): Surrealism LONG LONG AGO First Line: Long long ago I went through the castle of leaves Last Line: Long long ago you loved me Subject(s): Surrealism LOU THE SHRK LADY First Line: You are neither beautiful nor rich Last Line: From the blows of a heavy hammer on a stone anvil Subject(s): Surrealism LOW TIDE First Line: On the zinc bar of this little cafe the glass is shining Last Line: Whom one hears laughing by day when it's good to sleep Subject(s): Surrealism LYING DOWN First Line: On my right, the sky, on my left, the sea Subject(s): Surrealism LYING DOWN First Line: On my right, the sky, on my left, the sea Last Line: In a frenzy of the useless Subject(s): Surrealism LYING DOWN First Line: To the right, the sky, to the left, the sea Last Line: In the delirium of uselessness MEN First Line: Men with foul tempers Last Line: Men of the early morning Subject(s): Surrealism MEN ON EARTH First Line: Four of us were at a table Last Line: In many different veins but in the veins of men %of men on e Subject(s): Surrealism MERMAID First Line: Once not upon a time Last Line: There are other mermaids Subject(s): Surrealism MID-WAY Poem Text First Line: There's a precise moment in time Last Line: And what better could he do? Subject(s): Surrealism; Middle Age MID-WAY First Line: There's a precise moment in time Last Line: And what better could he do Subject(s): Surrealism MIDWAY First Line: There is a precise instant in time Last Line: And what could he do %that's any better? Subject(s): Surrealism MIRROR AND THE WORLD First Line: Every day time with its sharp teeth Last Line: Between night and day Subject(s): Surrealism MOBIUS STRIP Poem Text First Line: The track I'm running on MORNING STAR First Line: It's the call from the village to the lazy shepherds Last Line: Which flames and rises with the crack of lightning Subject(s): Surrealism MOUTH-SHAPED HEART Poem Text First Line: Her coat was dragging like a sinking sun Last Line: And knives pierce me with the sharpness of your looks Subject(s): Surrealism MY BABY First Line: My baby' says he and 'my baby' says she Last Line: Even on new year's eve Subject(s): Surrealism MY LOVE SPEAK TO ME First Line: When you love me, let me surrender Last Line: My love speak to me Subject(s): Surrealism MY MERMAID First Line: My mermaid is blue like the veins where she swims Last Line: I don't trust him as he might be lying Subject(s): Surrealism MY SIREN Poem Text First Line: My siren is blue as the veins where she swims NEVER ANYONE BUT YOU Poem Text First Line: Never anyone but you despite stars and loneliness Last Line: And you never anyone but you Subject(s): Surrealism; Past; Love NEVER ANYONE BUT YOU First Line: Never anyone but you despite stars and loneliness Last Line: And you never anyone but you Subject(s): Surrealism NIGHT SUICIDE Poem Text First Line: On the zinc bar of this little cafe the glass is shining Last Line: The little girl goes to school reciting her lesson Subject(s): Surrealism NIGHT WATCHMAN OF PONT-AU-CHANGE First Line: I am the night watchman of rue de flandre Last Line: Even if hidden by clouds it will still be there %goodmorning, goodmorning, with all of my heart bonj Subject(s): France; Surrealism; Watchmen; World War Ii NIGHTFALL Poem Text First Line: You can leave when you want to Last Line: Nerve in the passionate lamp extinquished at the end of day / I sleep Subject(s): Surrealism; Sleep NIGHTFALL First Line: You can leave when you want to Last Line: Nerve in the passionate lamp extinguished at the end of day Subject(s): Surrealism NIGHTS First Line: Women of high airs Last Line: Do you like the strong wind Subject(s): Surrealism NO, LOVE IS NOT DEAD Poem Text First Line: No, love is not dead in this heart these eyes and this mouth Last Line: On this vile earth for nothing but his love of you. Subject(s): Surrealism NO, LOVE IS NOT DEAD First Line: No, love is not dead in this heart these eyes and this mouth Last Line: I'm robert desnos who wants to be remembered %on this vile earth for nothing but his love of you Subject(s): Surrealism NO, LOVE IS NOT DEAD First Line: No, love is not dead in this heart and these eyes and this mouth Last Line: Doesn't want to be remembered for anything else on this despicable earth Subject(s): Love NO, LOVE IS NOT DEAD First Line: No, love is not dead in this heart and these eyes and this mouth Last Line: Dows not want to be remembered for anything else on this miserable earth NOW IT'S NIGHT Poem Text First Line: You'll go away when you want to Last Line: I am sleeping Subject(s): Surrealism; Sleep O YOUTH First Line: O youth, the wedding is over Last Line: I will listen to the sea rise in my heart Subject(s): Surrealism OBSESSION Poem Text First Line: I bring you a bit of seaweed which was tangled Last Line: But your neatly fixed hair has the shape of a hand Subject(s): Surrealism; Hair OF THE FLOWER OF LOVE AND THE WANDERING HORSES Poem Text First Line: In the forest lived a giant flower that risked killing Last Line: The wandering horses Subject(s): Surrealism; Horses; Flowers; Trees; Love OF THE FLOWER OF LOVE AND THE WANDERING HORSES First Line: In the forest lived a giant flower that risked killing Last Line: The wandering horses Subject(s): Surrealism ONCE THERE WAS A LEAF First Line: Once there was a leaf with its lines Last Line: The earth all alone crossing the sky %the earth Subject(s): Surrealism ONE THERE WAS A LEAF WITH ITS LINES Last Line: The earth, period %the earth too-round %the earth all alone crossing the sky %the earth ONLY ONE THING ON HIS MIND Poem Text First Line: I'd spun it out that morning Last Line: They mill in sempiternal eternity Subject(s): Surrealism OX AND THE ROSE First Line: In league with saltpeter and mountains, the black ox Last Line: Like a phantom flower Subject(s): Surrealism PARABOLA Poem Text First Line: Parabola my nurse.. PROMONTORY First Line: If phaedra, after her death, finds you again, hippolyte Last Line: Phaedra, your memory weds him to his amazement Subject(s): Surrealism PROPHECY First Line: From a square in paris such a clear spring will gush Last Line: Their birds and their flowers Subject(s): Surrealism RIVER WITH WATER LILIES First Line: The river with water lilies Last Line: That flows between two bridges Subject(s): Surrealism ROPE First Line: If I like trains it's no doubt because they go faster Last Line: Help %I'm drowning Subject(s): Surrealism ROSE BY THE SEINE First Line: The rose that blooms Last Line: It is death that makes you afraid Subject(s): Surrealism SATYR First Line: Out of the dark at last Last Line: His tumultuous dreams Subject(s): Surrealism SEASONS First Line: The day is as it should be and flows with the fullness of time Last Line: Drag on the paths returning to the borders Subject(s): Surrealism SECOND SONG OF THE MARIGOLD (THE FLOWER OF WORRY) First Line: Having said having done Last Line: And empty our glasss for the marigold Subject(s): Surrealism SECRET First Line: The secret squats in the tall grass to rest Last Line: Fear waking the sleeping secret Subject(s): Surrealism SHADOWS! OH SHADOWS!! Poem Text First Line: Frightened sycamore famous division of time flower of animal silence Last Line: Your eyes your lovely eyes devour the obscurity of silence and forgetting Subject(s): Surrealism SHOOTING STAR First Line: One lovely summer evening a shooting star SKY SONG Poem Text First Line: The flower of the alps told the seashell: 'you're shining' Last Line: I said: she's beautiful, so beautiful, she moves me Subject(s): Surrealism; Beauty SKY SONG First Line: The flower of the alps told the seashell: 'you're shining' Last Line: I said: 'she's beautiful, so beautiful, she moves me' Subject(s): Surrealism SLEEP SPACES Poem Text First Line: In the night there are of course the seven wonders Last Line: In the daylight too Subject(s): Surrealism; Sleep SLEEP SPACES First Line: In the night there are of course the seven wonders Last Line: In the daylight too Subject(s): Surrealism SOIL OF COMPIEGNE First Line: Chalk and flint and grass and chalk and flint Last Line: May we remember them Subject(s): Surrealism SONG FOR THE BEAUTIFUL SEASON First Line: Nothing looks more like inspiration Last Line: I love and I sing the summer, season of my birth Subject(s): Surrealism SONG OF TABOO First Line: The taboo is on you, the taboo is on us! So sing the heroes who are Last Line: And blood to draw our shadows from their torment. The taboo is on %you, the taboo is on us Subject(s): Surrealism SONG OF THE ROAD First Line: Eusebe has fertilized his garden Last Line: Eusebe put on his lawn Subject(s): Surrealism SORROWS OF LOVE Poem Text First Line: O sorrows of love! Last Line: Her hair, her teeth, her eyes Subject(s): Love SORROWS OF LOVE First Line: O sorrows of love! Last Line: Her hair, her teeth, her eyes Subject(s): Surrealism SPACES OF SLEEP First Line: In the night there are naturally the seven wonders of the world and Last Line: In the daytime also SPACES OF SLEEP First Line: In the night there are naturally the seven marvels of the world Last Line: In the night there are no guardian angels, but there is sleep, %in the night there is you. %and in t SPACES OF SLEEP First Line: In the night there are naturally the seven wonders of the Last Line: In the night there is you. %in the daytime also SPRING Poem Text First Line: You, rrose selavy, wander out of reach Last Line: The moment the sun will break the bushes into flower Subject(s): Surrealism; Roses; Death; Dancing & Dancers SPRING First Line: You, rrose selavy, wander out of reach Last Line: When the sun will break the bushes into flower Subject(s): Surrealism STARTLED First Line: On the road back from the summits met by Last Line: I have leaves in my hands leaves in my mouth Subject(s): Surrealism SUICIDE OF NIGHT First Line: The green boughs dip when the dragonfly appears Last Line: The little girl goes off to school reciting her lesson Subject(s): Surrealism SUMMER DUSK First Line: Summer dusk bathed in rose mist Subject(s): Surrealism SUMMER DUSK First Line: Summer dusk bathed in rose mist Last Line: But the window will go on trembling over the city Subject(s): Surrealism SUN'S DESPAIR First Line: What strange sound glided the length of the bannister down to where Last Line: Will the stairway plunge even-deeper? Will it clim even-higher? %dream accept dreaming it's the poem Subject(s): Surrealism SWIM First Line: Where are you headed, you bunch of fakes Last Line: As a razor's edge Subject(s): Surrealism TALE First Line: Tom thumb loses a slew of keys in the dark forest path Last Line: That wanders from cellar to eave Subject(s): Surrealism TALE OF A BEAR Poem Text First Line: A bear made her way into the city Last Line: She was even jostled Subject(s): Surrealism TALE OF A BEAR First Line: A bear made her way into the city Last Line: The cries, for the songs of my friends Subject(s): Surrealism TALE OF A CAMEL First Line: Tonight the toothless camel Last Line: Themselves sunk into funnels Subject(s): Surrealism THE GREAT DAYS OF THE POET Poem Text First Line: The disciples of light never invented anything but Last Line: Because you never know Subject(s): Surrealism THE POET€™S GREAT DAYS Poem Text First Line: The disciples of light have never invented anything but a not very opaque darkness THE RING OF STARS Poem Text Recitation First Line: In order to make a star with five branches THE SECRET BOOK FOR YOKI Poem Text First Line: With the dawn of a day, a throw of the dice THE VOICE OF ROBERT DESNOS Poem Text First Line: So like a flower and a current of air Last Line: The one I love does not answer Subject(s): Surrealism THE WIND AT NIGHT Poem Text First Line: On oceanic oceans the sunk sink Last Line: But where is heaven on earth Subject(s): Surrealism THEN THE TRUMPET First Line: Then the trumpet will sound at the city gates Last Line: Sleeping in the night before the first dawn %of returning ha Subject(s): Surrealism THIS BEAUTY HERE First Line: When age will have withered these eyes and this mouth Last Line: As the coals surviving a blaze Subject(s): Surrealism THIS HEART THAT HATED WAR First Line: This heart that hated war is now breathing for the struggle Last Line: Because these hearts that once hated war beat for liberty to the %rhythm of the season and the tides Subject(s): Surrealism THREE STARS First Line: I've lost my regret of evil with the passing years Last Line: That's what the crystal dress said to me Subject(s): Surrealism TIME OF THE DUNGEONS First Line: Have you forgotten the password already Last Line: Serpents coiled in the underbrush Subject(s): Surrealism TO A MYSTERIOUS WOMAN First Line: I have dreamed so much of you that you have become unreal Last Line: Ghost who walks and will move joyfully on the sundial of your life TO CONQUER THE DAY, TO CONQUER THE NIGHT Last Line: This libertarian who weeps and laughs Subject(s): Surrealism TO MAX MORISE Poem Text First Line: Chicago/the trams make a noise light doughnut batter Subject(s): Chicago TO THE ENDS OF THE EARTH First Line: That bellowing in the black street at whose end Last Line: Who do not understand his language Subject(s): Surrealism TO THE HEADLESS First Line: Homes with no windows, no doors, with roofs caved in Last Line: Rings with the echoes of everlasting toasts Subject(s): Surrealism TO THE HEADLESS First Line: Houses with no windows, no door, with roofs caved in Last Line: At the moment when the falling blade %rings with the echoes of everlasting toasts! TODAY I TOOK A WALK First Line: Today I took a walk with my friend Last Line: So I came back among the living Subject(s): Surrealism TOMORROW Poem Text First Line: A hundred thousand years old, I would still have the strength Last Line: Which will prove that at last we are living in the present Subject(s): Surrealism; Time; Patience TOMORROW First Line: A hundred thousand years old, I would still have the strength Last Line: Which will prove that at last we are living in the present Subject(s): Surrealism TOUR OF THE TOMB Poem Text First Line: By loving so much, I lost myself in the sea. And what a sea! Last Line: Against my love Subject(s): Surrealism TOUR OF THE TOMB First Line: By loving so much, I lost myself in the sea. And what a sea! Last Line: My moral nobility opposed to the thousand obstacles the world sets %against my love Subject(s): Surrealism TRANCE EVENT Poem Text First Line: (desnos, spontaneously writing): the tower Last Line: Because you never know Subject(s): Surrealism TRANCE EVENT First Line: (desnos, spontaneously writing): the tower Last Line: F sharp %(desnos wakes up) Subject(s): Surrealism UNDER COVER OF NIGHT Poem Text First Line: To slip into your shadow under cover of night Last Line: I knew it all along Subject(s): Surrealism UNDER COVER OF NIGHT First Line: To slip into your shadow under cover of night Last Line: I knew it all along Subject(s): Surrealism UNDER THE KINDNESS OF NIGHT First Line: Gliding in your shadow Last Line: The window opens %it's not you %I know VERSE ON THE BUTCHER First Line: Lovely one, if you wish I'll make your bed Last Line: I will watch over it like a hangman over a scaffold Subject(s): Surrealism VERSE ON THE GLASS OF WINE First Line: When the train leaves don't wave Last Line: Of your lips and your mouth Subject(s): Surrealism VERSE ON THE PORTES SAINT-MARTIN AND SAINT-DENIS Poem Text First Line: Porte saint-martin, porte saint-denis Last Line: In bright sunshine, on a beautiful morning Subject(s): Surrealism; Paris VERSE ON THE PORTES SAINT-MARTIN AND SAINT-DENIS First Line: Porte saint-martin, porte saint-denis Last Line: To leave singing in a lovely morning Subject(s): Surrealism VERSE ON THE RUE DE BAGNOLET First Line: The sun of the rue de bagnolet Last Line: Not like the others Subject(s): Surrealism VERSE ON THE SUMMERTIME SIDEWALK First Line: Let's lie down on the paving stones Last Line: And the first star above the houses Subject(s): Surrealism VERSES ON RUE SAINT-MARTIN First Line: I don't like rue saint-martin anymore Last Line: Andre platard left the rue saint-martin Subject(s): Surrealism VOICE OF ROBERT DESNOS First Line: So like a flower and a current of air Last Line: The one I love does not answer Subject(s): Surrealism VOICE OF ROBERT DESNOS First Line: So much like the flower and the current of air Last Line: The one I love does not answer me WAY A HAND AT THE MOMENT OF DEATH First Line: The way a hand is raised at the moment of death or shipwreck Last Line: I'll lie. %I'll say you were my mistress %though there's really no point to it: %you and I will soon Subject(s): Surrealism WE'LL LAUGH ABOUT IT First Line: We'll laugh about it later Last Line: Where it feels good to live and to live forever Subject(s): Surrealism WHAT DO YOU WANT ME TO SAY First Line: It's the pure truth Last Line: And leave me in war Subject(s): Surrealism WINDOW First Line: Through a golden yellow window Last Line: A scream never having broken four legs %of an armchair Subject(s): Surrealism WITH HEART OF OAK Poem Text First Line: With the tender and hard woods of these trees, with heart of oak Last Line: With oaken heart and birchbark Subject(s): Surrealism; Trees WITH HEART OF OAK First Line: With the tender and hard woods of these trees, with heart of oak Last Line: With heart of oak and birchbark, with the sky, with the oceans, with the slippers Subject(s): Surrealism WORDS FROM THE ROCKS Poem Text First Line: The azure queen and the madman of the void go by in a cab Last Line: Without even broken bottles Subject(s): Surrealism WORDS FROM THE ROCKS First Line: The azure queen and the madman of the void go by in a cab Last Line: Without even broken bottles Subject(s): Surrealism WRITTEN AT BUCHENWALD, MARCH 28, 1944 First Line: Our suffering would be unbearable Last Line: And sentimental disorder YOU TAKE THE FIRST STREET TO THE RIGHT Poem Text Last Line: And your droning isolation from the rest of the world Subject(s): Surrealism; Solitude; Alienation (social Psychology) YOU TAKE THE FIRST STREET TO THE RIGHT Last Line: And your droning isolation from the rest of the world Subject(s): Surrealism YOUR LOVERS AND MISTRESSES First Line: You don't write your initials with chalk Last Line: River where a hundred fish are fluttering Subject(s): Surrealism |
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