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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Keyword: leconte Matches Found: 40 A FESTIVAL, by CHARLES MARIE RENE LECONTE DE LISLE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Nor bloody altar, nor barbaric rite Last Line: A cloudless sky wherethro' the songs fly up! Subject(s): Festivals; Goddesses & Gods; Mythology; Fairs; Pageants AFTER A THOUSAND YEARS, by CHARLES MARIE RENE LECONTE DE LISLE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: That night the loud voice of the sea was roaring Last Line: The muffled onset of embattled shades. Subject(s): Sea; Time; Ocean AFTER LECONTE DE LISLE, by EDGAR BOWERS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Under the dense sycamore, she sleeps Last Line: Will keep you sleeping, dreaming forever of sleep BLACK PANTHER, by CHARLES MARIE RENE LECONTE DE LISLE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Along the rosy cloud light steals and CAMEO, by CHARLES MARIE RENE LECONTE DE LISLE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Long shall he live thro' time remembered Last Line: With thrust of tail and fin. Subject(s): Goddesses & Gods; Mythology; Sea; Ocean HAITIAN QUATRAINS, by PAUL RANDOLPH VIOLI Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Cincinnatus leconte %rosine myrthil Last Line: Alix cineas %franck st. Victor HIALMAR SPEAKS TO THE RAVEN, by CHARLES MARIE RENE LECONTE DE LISLE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Night on the bloodstained snow: the wind is chill Last Line: "and sit where all the gods are, in the sun." HIALMAR'S HEART, by CHARLES MARIE RENE LECONTE DE LISLE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: A clear night, icy wind, and blood-streams staining Last Line: "my seat where the high gods are in the sun." Subject(s): Death; Love - Loss Of; Ravens; War; Dead, The HOMAGE TO THE REVEREND A. RUFUS MORGAN, ON MOUNT LECONTE ..., by JONATHAN WILLIAMS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Rufus %you reckon there's Last Line: Anything in heaven %worth climbing %173 times? JAGUAR'S DREAM, by CHARLES MARIE RENE LECONTE DE LISLE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Lianas in bright bloom hang from mahogany shade Last Line: Into a bellowing bull's flesh-swollen hide Subject(s): Jaguars LA CHUTE DES ETOILES, by CHARLES MARIE RENE LECONTE DE LISLE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Tombez, o perles denouees LE SACRE DE PARIS, by CHARLES MARIE RENE LECONTE DE LISLE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: O paris! C'est le cent deuxieme nuit de LECONTE DE LISLE: IN EXCELSIS, by GEORGE FREDERICK MORGAN Poem Source First Line: Swift as the hunting eagle in his course LECONTE DE LISLE; JULY 17, 1894, by EDMUND WILLIAM GOSSE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: His verse was carved in ivory forms, undying Last Line: His bronze and marble leap to life and song. Subject(s): Leconte De Lisle (1819-1894) LECONTE HIGH-TOP, by JONATHAN WILLIAMS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Unde the rondelay %the sun Last Line: Into the wind and rain a %winter wren %again, again - %its song %needling the pines LES HURLEURS, by CHARLES MARIE RENE LECONTE DE LISLE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Le soleil dans les flots avait noye ses LES MONTREURS, by CHARLES MARIE RENE LECONTE DE LISLE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Tel qu'un morne animal, meurtri, plain de LES PLAINTES DU CYCLOPE, by CHARLES MARIE RENE LECONTE DE LISLE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Certes, il n'aimait pas a la facon des hommes LINES TO THE AUTHOR OF ECCLESIASTES, by CHARLES MARIE RENE LECONTE DE LISLE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Old lover of the sun, who thus made moan Subject(s): Immortality MANCHY, by CHARLES MARIE RENE LECONTE DE LISLE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Clothed in your flimsy muslin gown Last Line: You rest with dead ones dear to me, %o charm of my first tender dreams MIDI, by CHARLES MARIE RENE LECONTE DE LISLE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Midi, roi des etes, epandu sur la plaine MONT NOIR, by SUSAN WICKS Poem Source First Line: Leconte marcel, persin alfred Last Line: Piercing the paper NIGHT, by CHARLES MARIE RENE LECONTE DE LISLE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: The spent winds on the mountain slopes at peace Last Line: And in my heart thou singest evermore! Subject(s): Consolation; Grief; Night; Sorrow; Sadness; Bedtime NOON, by CHARLES MARIE RENE LECONTE DE LISLE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Noon whose kingdom summer is, spread wide along the plain's expanse Last Line: Seven times thy heart made stronger in the furnace of thy loss. Subject(s): Noon; Weariness; Fatigue PALANQUIN, by CHARLES MARIE RENE LECONTE DE LISLE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: In a thin cloud of cool and glowing muslin Last Line: In barren sands, by groaning norther seas, %at rest among my dearest dead Subject(s): Love SACRA FAMES, by CHARLES MARIE RENE LECONTE DE LISLE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: L'immense mer sommeille. Elle hausse et SAPPHO, by SEBASTIEN CHARLES LECONTE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: You to whom I aspired, yet did not know Last Line: False sanctuary that the gods have fled! Subject(s): Sappho (610-580 B.c.) SPRING, by CHARLES MARIE RENE LECONTE DE LISLE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: A live spring sparkles in the bosky gloom THE BLACK PANTHER, by CHARLES MARIE RENE LECONTE DE LISLE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Along the clouds there spreads a rosy lustre Last Line: Beneath the forest aisle. Subject(s): Hunting; Night; Panthers; Hunters; Bedtime THE ELVES, by CHARLES MARIE RENE LECONTE DE LISLE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Crowned with marjoram, clover and thyme Last Line: The dancing elves in the moonlight mime. Subject(s): Dancing & Dancers; Fairies; Moon; Elves THE ELVES, by CHARLES MARIE RENE LECONTE DE LISLE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Crowned with thyme and marjory Last Line: Merry elves dance on the lea. Subject(s): Dancing & Dancers; Fairies; Moon; Elves THE LION'S DEATH, by CHARLES MARIE RENE LECONTE DE LISLE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: A hunter old whom once the desert air Last Line: And like the lion make an end of all? Subject(s): Animals; Death; Hearts; Lions; Dead, The THE MALECONTENT; SONG, by THOMAS FLATMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Phyllis, o phyllis! Thou art fondly vain Last Line: Who freely gav'st the fuel and the flame. THE RAVINE OF SAINT-GILLES, by CHARLES MARIE RENE LECONTE DE LISLE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: The gorge is dark below the reeds' massed slimness Last Line: And lights in him the eternal hope unquelled! Subject(s): Hope; Nature; Water; Optimism THE SHOWMEN, by CHARLES MARIE RENE LECONTE DE LISLE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Like to a dismal brute, dust-smothered, teased Last Line: Nor leer for lovers like a shameless whore. Subject(s): Love; Prostitution; Harlots; Whores; Brothels THE SPRING, by CHARLES MARIE RENE LECONTE DE LISLE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A spring up-sparkles in the silent forest Last Line: Light of the soul, o beauty! Subject(s): Beauty; Spring THE SUPREME CONSUMATIN, by CHARLES MARIE RENE LECONTE DE LISLE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Nay, but the world is old, nigh old as hell Last Line: Pass to my endless home with spirit clean! Subject(s): Death; Life; Time; Dead, The THREE GOLD STRANDS, by CHARLES MARIE RENE LECONTE DE LISLE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: As the swallow glides over the sea Last Line: Then sever you, my three strands of gold TRE FILA D'ORO, by CHARLES MARIE RENE LECONTE DE LISLE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Yonder o'er the sea like a swallow hasting over Last Line: Than rend you asunder golden threads that she hath sewn! Subject(s): Lips; Love; Smiles VENUS DE MILO, by CHARLES MARIE RENE LECONTE DE LISLE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Sacred marble, clothed in spirit and strength Last Line: Like divine metal in a harmonious mold Subject(s): Art And Artists; Sculpture And Sculptors; Venus De Milo |
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