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Keyword: sully
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AGING, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Aging is an agony
Last Line: Were sullying her sight
Subject(s): Aging


AGREEMENT WITH THE INDIANS AT FORT BERTHOLD AGENCY, by GARY H. HOLTHAUS    Poem Source                    
First Line: General sully reports: %...They have a treaty with the government
Last Line: And twenty-four boxes of hard bread %reached here, directed to the agent....


AH, WHO CAN SAY HIS EYES FORGET THE MORN, by RENE FRANCOIS ARMAND PRUDHOMME                        Poet's Biography
Alternate Author Name(s): Sully-prudhomme


ALONE, by RENE FRANCOIS ARMAND PRUDHOMME    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: True happiness laughs on secure
Last Line: A cup whence all the world may drink.
Alternate Author Name(s): Sully-prudhomme


APPOINTMENT, by RENE FRANCOIS ARMAND PRUDHOMME    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: It's late; the astronomer in his lonely height
Alternate Author Name(s): Sully-prudhomme


AU BORD DE DEAU, by RENE FRANCOIS ARMAND PRUDHOMME    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: To sit and watch the wavelets as they flow
Last Line: Love -- hand in hand.
Alternate Author Name(s): Sully-prudhomme
Subject(s): Love


BEFORE THE APOLLO OF THE BELVEDERE, by RENE FRANCOIS ARMAND PRUDHOMME    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The horizon stirs us to boredom or to liveliness
Last Line: Accept it, human, and return, divine.
Alternate Author Name(s): Sully-prudhomme
Subject(s): Apollo; Architecture & Architects; Mythology - Classical; Sculpture & Sculptors


BIRDS, by RENE FRANCOIS ARMAND PRUDHOMME    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Mount! Mount! Ye birds who scorn the clods
Last Line: Wings, whence a voice high as the thrilled heart soar.
Alternate Author Name(s): Sully-prudhomme
Subject(s): Birds


BODIES AND SOUL, by RENE FRANCOIS ARMAND PRUDHOMME    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: O! Happy fleshly lips that glow
Last Line: And in espousal burnt away!
Alternate Author Name(s): Sully-prudhomme
Subject(s): Bodies; Love; Soul


BROKEN VASE (AFTER SULLY PRUDHOMME), by ALEKSEY NIKOLAYEVICH APUKHTIN    Poem Source                    
First Line: This vase you filled with roses, tender care displaying


CE QUI DURE, by RENE FRANCOIS ARMAND PRUDHOMME    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: How cold and wan the present lowers
Last Line: Then thou hast, love! That deathless heart.
Alternate Author Name(s): Sully-prudhomme
Subject(s): Aging; Transience; Youth; Impermanence


CHAINS, by RENE FRANCOIS ARMAND PRUDHOMME    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A rhythm can link me with melodious air
Last Line: They rend in me some fleshly fastening.
Alternate Author Name(s): Sully-prudhomme
Subject(s): Love


CUSTOM, by RENE FRANCOIS ARMAND PRUDHOMME    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Custom is a stranger bold
Last Line: But in action are but things.
Alternate Author Name(s): Sully-prudhomme
Subject(s): Customs, Social


DEWDROPS, by RENE FRANCOIS ARMAND PRUDHOMME    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Dreaming I watch the silver limpid dew
Last Line: That stirs and wakes to life these latent tears.
Alternate Author Name(s): Sully-prudhomme


DOWN HERE, by RENE FRANCOIS ARMAND PRUDHOMME    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Down here the lilies wither away
Last Line: Always.
Alternate Author Name(s): Sully-prudhomme
Subject(s): Dreams; Thought; Time; Nightmares; Thinking


ENFANTILLAGE, by RENE FRANCOIS ARMAND PRUDHOMME    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: My lady! You were little then
Last Line: Since that spring eve.
Alternate Author Name(s): Sully-prudhomme
Subject(s): Love - Age Differences


FETTERS, by RENE FRANCOIS ARMAND PRUDHOMME    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: In too much seeking love I found but grief
Last Line: Rends from my heart itself a part of me.
Alternate Author Name(s): Sully-prudhomme
Subject(s): Freedom; Love - Complaints; Liberty


FOR AYE, by RENE FRANCOIS ARMAND PRUDHOMME    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Here, lilacs wilt beneath the blast
Last Line: For aye.
Alternate Author Name(s): Sully-prudhomme
Subject(s): Lament; Love - Loss Of; Past


HERE BELOW, by RENE FRANCOIS ARMAND PRUDHOMME    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Here below the lilacs soon are past
Last Line: Evermore.
Alternate Author Name(s): Sully-prudhomme
Subject(s): Friendship


HYMN TO DESIRE, by RENE FRANCOIS ARMAND PRUDHOMME    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: O die not yet, divine desire, whose flight
Last Line: Out of the drainéd cup!
Alternate Author Name(s): Sully-prudhomme
Subject(s): Desire; Love


IF YOU BUT KNEW, by RENE FRANCOIS ARMAND PRUDHOMME    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: If you but knew the tears that fall
Last Line: And ne'er depart.
Alternate Author Name(s): Sully-prudhomme
Subject(s): Love - Unrequited


INCONSTANCY, by RENE FRANCOIS ARMAND PRUDHOMME    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: O queen of my beloved ones
Last Line: For whom I'll die tomorrow.
Alternate Author Name(s): Sully-prudhomme
Subject(s): Unfaithfulness; Infidelity; Adultery; Inconstancy


LA CHARPIE, by RENE FRANCOIS ARMAND PRUDHOMME    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A sombre night, a starless sky!
Last Line: For soldiers wounded in the war.
Alternate Author Name(s): Sully-prudhomme


LE VASE BRISE, by RENE FRANCOIS ARMAND PRUDHOMME    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Le vase ou meurt cette verveine
Alternate Author Name(s): Sully-prudhomme


MORNING AWAKENING, by TS'AN LIAO TZU    Poem Source                    
First Line: Dark crane trills daybreak
Last Line: Shadows sully my robe
Subject(s): Waking; Zen Buddhism


MY HEAVEN, by RENE FRANCOIS ARMAND PRUDHOMME    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I love the fresh, sweet charm of vernal skies in may
Last Line: -- more frightful unto me than the midnight of the tomb.
Alternate Author Name(s): Sully-prudhomme
Subject(s): Death; Heaven; May (month); Nature; Seasons; Time; Dead, The; Paradise


SEPARATION, by RENE FRANCOIS ARMAND PRUDHOMME    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: We wandered down, at dawn of day
Last Line: Where one deep shadow wraps it all.
Alternate Author Name(s): Sully-prudhomme
Subject(s): Love - Loss Of


SONNET: IN SEPARATION, by RENE FRANCOIS ARMAND PRUDHOMME    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The bliss that happy lovers dream will bloom
Last Line: Without desire, as one might love a star.
Alternate Author Name(s): Sully-prudhomme


SONNET: L'AMOUR ASSASSINE, by RENE FRANCOIS ARMAND PRUDHOMME    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Poor wretch! That smites, in his despair insane
Last Line: "not by thy hand, not thine, can I be slain!"
Alternate Author Name(s): Sully-prudhomme


SONNET: SIESTA, by RENE FRANCOIS ARMAND PRUDHOMME    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: All summer let me lie along the grass
Last Line: Shall lull me like the sound of distant seas.
Alternate Author Name(s): Sully-prudhomme


SONNET: THE CLOUD, by RENE FRANCOIS ARMAND PRUDHOMME    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Couched on the turf, and lying mute and still
Last Line: And vanishing, lost in the infinite.
Alternate Author Name(s): Sully-prudhomme


STEPS OF ARA COELI, by RENE FRANCOIS ARMAND PRUDHOMME    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A ladder, realler, dearer
Alternate Author Name(s): Sully-prudhomme
Subject(s): Italy


SULLY, by SHERWIN TJIA    Poem Source                    
First Line: Oh sully
Last Line: Oh sully %shit


SUNSET: PONT SULLY, by PETER L. MCNAMARA    Poem Source                    
First Line: Behind us allees of ile sainte-louis
Last Line: As skaters punk its paved interstices


SUPPLICATION, by RENE FRANCOIS ARMAND PRUDHOMME    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Oh! Did you know how the tears apace
Last Line: You'd step at last
Alternate Author Name(s): Sully-prudhomme
Subject(s): Love


THE APPOINTMENT, by RENE FRANCOIS ARMAND PRUDHOMME                        Poet's Biography
First Line: Tis late; the astronomer in his lonely height
Alternate Author Name(s): Sully-prudhomme


THE DEATH AGONY, by RENE FRANCOIS ARMAND PRUDHOMME    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Ye who are watching when my end draws near
Last Line: And pass away.
Alternate Author Name(s): Sully-prudhomme
Subject(s): Death; Mourning; Dead, The; Bereavement


THE FAN, by RENE FRANCOIS ARMAND PRUDHOMME    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: It is I control the air
Last Line: Or your tears that tremble.
Alternate Author Name(s): Sully-prudhomme
Subject(s): Air; Fans; Wings


THE GREAT BEAR, by RENE FRANCOIS ARMAND PRUDHOMME                        Poet's Biography
Alternate Author Name(s): Sully-prudhomme


THE INHERITOR, by RENE FRANCOIS ARMAND PRUDHOMME    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I am kind-hearted, wish no creature ill
Last Line: Bland-eyed and bloody as an ogre's whelp.
Alternate Author Name(s): Sully-prudhomme
Subject(s): Inheritance And Succession; Labor & Laborers; Work; Workers


THE MISSAL, by RENE FRANCOIS ARMAND PRUDHOMME    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A missal of the first francis's reign
Last Line: And there it still shall lie.
Alternate Author Name(s): Sully-prudhomme


THE STRANGER, by RENE FRANCOIS ARMAND PRUDHOMME    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I often wonder with what blood doth beat
Last Line: Who veils the glory of his land and blood.
Alternate Author Name(s): Sully-prudhomme
Subject(s): Grief; Strangers; Sorrow; Sadness


TO HIS WORTHY FRIEND, DOCTOR WITTY, by ANDREW MARVELL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Sit farther back and make room for thine own fame
Last Line: That handling neither sully nor would guild
Subject(s): Translating & Interpreting; Whitty, Robert


TO THE READER, by RENE FRANCOIS ARMAND PRUDHOMME    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: These flowers I gathered by the highway side
Last Line: And plant some seed before we pass away.
Alternate Author Name(s): Sully-prudhomme
Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Transience; Impermanence


UNKNOWN FRIENDS, by RENE FRANCOIS ARMAND PRUDHOMME    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: One line may, like a friend who knows us well
Last Line: Nor tell the eyes from whom I learnt my lore.
Alternate Author Name(s): Sully-prudhomme
Subject(s): Friendship; Poetry & Poets


VOIX DE LA TERRE, by RENE FRANCOIS ARMAND PRUDHOMME    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Tu montes vainement, o vivante maree
Alternate Author Name(s): Sully-prudhomme