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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Author: VALERY, PAUL Matches Found: 52 Valery, Paul Poet's Biography 52 poems available by this author ASIDES Poem Text First Line: What do you do? Why, everything Last Line: What will you do there? Be dead. Subject(s): Despair; Imaginary Conversations AURORA First Line: Confusion and gloom Last Line: Union within the wave. %she shudders head to toe BEE; TO GRANCIS DE MIOMANDRE First Line: What and how keen and mortal soever Last Line: By that tiniest golden alert %for lack of which love dies orsleeps! Subject(s): Bees; Insects CAESAR Poem Text First Line: Caesar, serene caesar, your foot on all Last Line: Not knowing what thunder collects in the center of caesar Subject(s): Caesar, Julius (100-44 B.c.) CAESAR First Line: Caesar, calm caesar, stepping on everything Last Line: The thunder gathering in caesar's heart CAESAR First Line: Caesar, serene caesar, your foot on all Subject(s): Caesar, Julius (100-44 B.c.); War CEMETERY BY THE SEA First Line: This still roof where the doves walk slowly, waves Last Line: This tranquil roof at which the short sails pluck CEMETERY BY THE SEA First Line: This roof where dovelike sails go and come Last Line: From this calm roof where sails came striding past! CRUSOE Poem Text First Line: Crusoe had provided all the necessaries and was more or less at leisure Subject(s): Robinson Crusoe CRUSOE First Line: Crusoe had provided all the necessaries and was more or less at leisure Last Line: What am I to do with this wealth of time that I have put by? Subject(s): Robinson Crusoe EBAUCHE D'UN SERPENT, FR. CHARMES First Line: Shakien in a tree I am Last Line: And lost. This style we take from you %non-thing, plie FOOTSTEPS First Line: Your steps, born of my silence here Last Line: For I have lived to wait for you: %my heart was your approaching feet Subject(s): Love GIRL WITH MIND WANDERING Poem Text First Line: Deign, laura - now again the rainy season's here Subject(s): Conversation GIRL WITH MIND WANDERING First Line: Deign, laura - now again the rainy season's here Last Line: Deign, dear, to listen once to what your lips are saying... Subject(s): Conversation GRAVES BY THE SEA First Line: This tranquil vault, assuming files of doves Last Line: And crash, waves, crush this tranquil vault %where crying taut sails plunged predators! Subject(s): Graves; Sea GRAVEYARD BY THE SEA First Line: This quiet roof, bestirred with pigeon plumes Last Line: This quiet roof where jabbed the fo'c'sle flocks HELEN First Line: I am the blue! I come from the lower world Last Line: Reach out their carved, indulgent arms to me HELEN First Line: It is I, o azure, come from the caves below Last Line: Reaching their carved, indulgent arms to me HELEN, THE SAD QUEEN Poem Text First Line: Azure, 'tis I! From the caves of death withdrawn Last Line: Stretch toward me their indulgent, graven arms. Subject(s): Solitude HELEN, THE SAD QUEEN First Line: Azure, 'tis I, come from elysian shores Last Line: Their ancient smile that the slow waves insult, %hold out their sculptured arms to my sad shade INSINUATION Poem Text First Line: Oh curves, meanderings / tricks of the liar Last Line: For the gentlest word. Subject(s): Deception INTERIOR Poem Text First Line: With narrow eyes below soft chains, a slave Last Line: Without the apparatus of pure thought. Subject(s): Introspection IT IS TRUE. I AM SOMBER First Line: It is true. I am somber. And miserably Last Line: ...I sense the fatigue of an angel weighing me down KIRKYAIRD BY THE SEA First Line: This lown riggin-side, whaur whyte doos gang Last Line: Brak, brak, ye swaws. Brak wi blyth water-flads %this lown riggin-side whaur reivan jibsails gaed! Subject(s): Scottish Translations LES PAS Poem Text First Line: Your footfalls, children of my silence Last Line: And your footfall was my heart-beat. LOST WINE Poem Text First Line: One day I cast into the sea Last Line: Figures of greatest profundity. Subject(s): Drinks & Drinking; Wings; Wine LOST WINE First Line: One day I tossed in the ocean Last Line: Before my startled eyes MARINE CEMETERY First Line: This tranquil roof whereon the white dove looms Last Line: This tanquil roof where pecks the white-beaked sail! MARITOME GRAVEYARD First Line: How odd it is that a few doves between pines Last Line: A wave breaks. Whirl it away! Wave waves, %play in the water as a fo'c'sle carves %its way, sinbad a NARCISSUS Poem Text First Line: Sad lilies, o my brothers, lorn I languish here Last Line: Pour for the moon thy tears in silver urns afar. Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Narcissus (mythology) PALM Poem Text First Line: An angel sets at my place Last Line: To grow with what it gives! Subject(s): Time PALM First Line: In the shadow of the blaze Last Line: Consumes itself in growing whole %from gifts with which it is endowed! POMEGRANATES Poem Text First Line: Hard pomegranates sundered Last Line: Its secret architecture. Subject(s): Pomegranates POMEGRANATES First Line: Oh pomegranates! Seeds Last Line: Allows me to envision %your secret inmost bower PSAUME SUR UNE VOIX First Line: In a subdued voice SERPENT, SELS. First Line: Eve, as once I came upon her SONG OF THE COLUMNS Poem Text First Line: Sweet columns, with / chaplets adorned with day Subject(s): Architecture & Architects; Singing & Singers SONG OF THE COLUMNS First Line: Sweet columns, with %chaplets adorned with day Last Line: Have steps ineffable %that mark in fable Subject(s): Architecture And Architects; Singing And Singers STEPS First Line: Your steps, children of my still hours Last Line: My heart being nothing but your tread STEPS First Line: Your steps, children of silence Last Line: And my heart was but for your steps THE BEE; TO GRANCIS DE MIOMANDRE First Line: What and how keen and mortal soever Subject(s): Bees; Insects; Beekeeping; Bugs THE BURIED LADY Poem Text First Line: Tenderly, humbly, upon the charming tomb / the unconscious monument Last Line: Death far dearer than life. Subject(s): Death; Desire; Dead, The THE CEMETERY BY THE SEA Poem Text First Line: This tranquil roof, with walking pigeons, loom Last Line: This tranquil roof where jib-sails peck in flocks! Subject(s): Cemeteries; Death; Life Choices; Religion; Passion THE FOOTSTEPS Poem Text First Line: Your steps, born of my silence here Subject(s): Love THE FOOTSTEPS Poem Text First Line: Your steps, born of my silence here Subject(s): Love; Tombs; Tombstones; Ocean THE FRIENDLY WOOD Poem Text First Line: Meditations pure were ours Last Line: O my companion of silence dear! Subject(s): Relationships THE FRIENDLY WOOD Poem Text First Line: Meditations pure were ours Last Line: O my companion of silence dear! Subject(s): Relationships THE LOST WINE Poem Text First Line: One day into the sea I cast Last Line: Forms unfathomed leaping there. Subject(s): Loss THE SYLPH Poem Text First Line: Seen not nor known Last Line: Between two gowns! Subject(s): Genius; Life; Smells; Odors; Aromas; Fragrances WHITE First Line: The slim moon sheds a sacred glow, like a skirt made of some light Last Line: Incense, for with the fragil metal of her voice,she charms the sweet %milky night and the pale silen WHITE CATS First Line: In sunlight's bright gold, stretching out their spines Last Line: Indifferent to all that is not light! YOUNG FATE Poem Text First Line: Harmonious me, disparate from a dream Last Line: And burns in the somber goal of my yawning marble. Subject(s): Brides; Dreams; Fate; Nightmares; Destiny |
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