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First Line: Of all the brave captains that ever were seen
Last Line: "in his sleep if such dreadful destruction he makes, / what havoc, ye gods, shall we have when he wa
Subject(s): Courage;great Britain - Wars With France;guns;heroism;soldiers; Valor;bravery;heroes;heroines


(FRENCH) PUBLIC TRANSIT, by KURT WUBBELS    Poem Source                    
First Line: You carried your hair like a blanket
Last Line: Light-giving pears that dangled from the boxcar roof
Subject(s): France


10.04.02, by ANTONIO D'ALFONSO    Poem Source                    
First Line: Paris is far, so is rodin's secret
Last Line: My city is a haven for replicas where touching is killing
Subject(s): Love; Paris, France


104 BOULEVARD SAINT-GERMAIN, by KENNETH PITCHFORD    Poem Source                    
First Line: In a basement just off saint-michel
Last Line: That you long for but deny, in your chaste north
Subject(s): Paris, France


12-DEC, by COLE SWENSEN    Poem Source                    
First Line: And when god thought %said st. A. He thought
Last Line: You're always slightly %thinking of it
Subject(s): Berry (france); Book Of Hours; Catholic Church - Liturgy; Church Year; Fifteenth Century - Poetry; Manuscripts, Latin (medieval And Modern); Months; Tres Riches Heures Du Duc De Berry


1470: THE FIRST BOOK PRINTED IN PARIS, by COLE SWENSEN    Poem Source                    
Last Line: Was not a bible, but a book of private letters
Subject(s): Berry (france); Book Of Hours; Catholic Church - Liturgy; Church Year; Fifteenth Century - Poetry; Manuscripts, Latin (medieval And Modern); Months; Tres Riches Heures Du Duc De Berry


2-JUN, by COLE SWENSEN    Poem Source                    
First Line: The flight of red (the various)
Last Line: I was raised to a pious life %and cannot live here
Subject(s): Berry (france); Book Of Hours; Catholic Church - Liturgy; Church Year; Fifteenth Century - Poetry; Manuscripts, Latin (medieval And Modern); Months; Tres Riches Heures Du Duc De Berry


2-OCT, by COLE SWENSEN    Poem Source                    
First Line: At the center of the picture, a river
Last Line: A peeled muscle exposed to sun %cut in two. I would not choose
Subject(s): Berry (france); Book Of Hours; Catholic Church - Liturgy; Church Year; Fifteenth Century - Poetry; Manuscripts, Latin (medieval And Modern); Months; Tres Riches Heures Du Duc De Berry


24-DEC, by COLE SWENSEN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Before birth %ex patre (was the) (lumiere the pere: %tu lumen)
Last Line: Across les siecles %that licked them clean
Subject(s): Berry (france); Book Of Hours; Catholic Church - Liturgy; Church Year; Fifteenth Century - Poetry; Manuscripts, Latin (medieval And Modern); Months; Tres Riches Heures Du Duc De Berry


25-NOV, by COLE SWENSEN    Poem Source                    
First Line: There is perfect weather; you can smell it
Last Line: Heads thrown back and talking quietly to each other
Subject(s): Berry (france); Book Of Hours; Catholic Church - Liturgy; Church Year; Fifteenth Century - Poetry; Manuscripts, Latin (medieval And Modern); Months; Tres Riches Heures Du Duc De Berry


3-APR, by COLE SWENSEN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Curve %now my %love these trees, three
Last Line: Two men alone in boats
Subject(s): Berry (france); Book Of Hours; Catholic Church - Liturgy; Church Year; Fifteenth Century - Poetry; Manuscripts, Latin (medieval And Modern); Months; Tres Riches Heures Du Duc De Berry


3-MAR, by COLE SWENSEN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Father son and holy father son and only counting if it gathers
Last Line: Its own and only weather %sounds like laughter
Subject(s): Berry (france); Book Of Hours; Catholic Church - Liturgy; Church Year; Fifteenth Century - Poetry; Manuscripts, Latin (medieval And Modern); Months; Tres Riches Heures Du Duc De Berry


3-NOV, by COLE SWENSEN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Jean colombe. Stole from the cathedrals of auxerre
Last Line: Liked november, the number 11, the water at a given distance, and no castle %but that hidden by tree
Subject(s): Berry (france); Book Of Hours; Catholic Church - Liturgy; Church Year; Fifteenth Century - Poetry; Manuscripts, Latin (medieval And Modern); Months; Tres Riches Heures Du Duc De Berry


3-SEP, by COLE SWENSEN    Poem Source                    
First Line: The ellipse that leads into (sept)
Last Line: A shard of glass %dry grass in autumn
Subject(s): Berry (france); Book Of Hours; Catholic Church - Liturgy; Church Year; Fifteenth Century - Poetry; Manuscripts, Latin (medieval And Modern); Months; Tres Riches Heures Du Duc De Berry


4-FEB, by COLE SWENSEN    Poem Source                    
First Line: And this in the middle
Last Line: Of the hundred years' war
Subject(s): Berry (france); Book Of Hours; Catholic Church - Liturgy; Church Year; Fifteenth Century - Poetry; Manuscripts, Latin (medieval And Modern); Months; Tres Riches Heures Du Duc De Berry


47TH BIRTHDAY, by ALICE NOTLEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Exactly the color / of a grey tear the sky is still
Subject(s): Birthdays; Self; France


7-JUL, by COLE SWENSEN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Because (it's said) seven heavenly bodies
Last Line: Asleep in the grass, white grass %invisible in the white light
Subject(s): Berry (france); Book Of Hours; Catholic Church - Liturgy; Church Year; Fifteenth Century - Poetry; Manuscripts, Latin (medieval And Modern); Months; Tres Riches Heures Du Duc De Berry


A BALLAD OF ORLEANS (1429), by AGNES MARY F. ROBINSON    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: The fray began at the middle-gate
Last Line: To-day there is not one.
Alternate Author Name(s): Duclaux, Madame Emile; Darmesteter, Mary; Robinson, A. Mary F.
Subject(s): Hundred Years' War; Joan Of Arc (1412-1431); Orleans, France


A BALLAD OF THE FRENCH FLEET; OCTOBER, 1746, by HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A fleet with flags arrayed
Last Line: With thine horses through the sea!
Subject(s): Boston; French & Indian Wars; Navy - France; French Navy


A BOX AT THE OPERA (PARIS - 1770), by GEORGE STEELE SEYMOUR    Poem Text                    
First Line: Bobo, my smelling salts! The air is fetid
Last Line: It's the du barry. La, he's gone and kissed me!
Subject(s): Opera; Paris, France


A CASUALTY, by ROBERT WILLIAM SERVICE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: That boy I took in the car last night
Last Line: "my feet, please wrap 'em -- they're cold . . . They're cold."
Subject(s): Accidents; Death; Paris, France; Dead, The


A COUP D'ETAT; AN INCIDENT IN THE NIGHT OF DECEMBER 4, 1851, by VICTOR MARIE HUGO    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: The child received two bullets in the brain
Last Line: Must sew the shrouds of children eight years old.
Subject(s): Death - Children; France; Grandparents; Guns; Murder; Napoleon Iii (1808-1873); War; Death - Babies; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers


A DIALOGUE BETWEEN GEORGE AND FOX, by PHILIP FRENEAU    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Good charly fox, your counsel I implore
Last Line: And france, triumphant, stems the subject main.
Subject(s): American Revolution; Fox, Charles James (1749-1806); George Iii, King Of England (1738-1820); Great Britain - Foreign Relations; Navy - France; Navy - Great Britain; Navy - Spain; French Navy; English Navy; Spanish Navy


A DIALOGUE; OVERHEARD IN A VILLAGE NEAR PORTSMOUTH, DURING WAR FRANCE, by ROWLAND EYLES EGERTON-WARBURTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Says sue to jack, 'the reason why we english wins the day
Last Line: "jabbering beggars, no! Who'd understand 'em if they did?"
Alternate Author Name(s): Egerton-warburton, R. E.
Subject(s): French & Indian Wars; Navy - France; Navy - Great Britain; Prayer; War; French Navy; English Navy


A DOMESTIC TRAGEDY, by ROBERT WILLIAM SERVICE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Clorinda met me on the way
Last Line: "a new hat just like mine."
Subject(s): Bohemians; Paris, France


A FIRST DAY IN PARIS, by JAMES WRIGHT    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Some twenty years ago I was still a young man. I did not know
Alternate Author Name(s): Wright, James A.
Subject(s): Paris, France


A LEGEND OF PROVENCE, by ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: The lights extinguished, by the hearth I leant
Last Line: May be the truer life, and this the dream.
Alternate Author Name(s): Berwick, Mary
Subject(s): Nuns; Provence, France


A MAN TAKES HIS DAUGHTER, AGE 5, TO A PUBLIC EXECUTION BY GUILLOTINE, PARIS, 1857, by THOMAS LUX    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: He is a bad man. He says this in french
Last Line: Daddy, I still can't see the puppets
Subject(s): Fathers & Daughters; Guillotines; Paris, France


A MEMORY OF BRITTANY, by ROBERT UNDERWOOD JOHNSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Know you drowsy pont aven
Last Line: By remembering pont aven.)
Subject(s): Brittany, France


A MESSAGE TO AMERICA, by ALAN SEEGER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: You have the grit and the guts, I know
Last Line: Oh, look over here and learn from france!
Subject(s): France; Presidents, United States; Roosevelt, Theodore (1858-1919); Soldiers' Writings; Tolerance; United States; World War I; America; First World War


A MOUNTAIN VILLAGE IN SOUTHERN FRANCE, by CLARENCE MAJOR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Snow on a line of flat rooftops beneath a sky of driven clouds
Subject(s): Fields; France; Solitude; Southern Hemisphere; Pastures; Meadows; Leas; Loneliness


A PARIS BLACKBIRD, by LAURE-ANNE BOSSELAAR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Along the seine's left bank, near the pont-neuf, on the mansard roof
Last Line: The scruffy blackbird -- and listen for the cry caught in her bronze throat.
Subject(s): Bird-watching; Blackbirds; Creative Ability; Knowledge; Louvre, Paris; Museums; Paris, France; Seine (river), France; Inspiration; Creativity; Art Gallerys


A PARIS NOCTURNE, by WILLIAM SHARP    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Over the lonesome hollows
Last Line: In the scud of the spray.
Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona
Subject(s): Paris, France


A PARISIAN FAUXBOURG, by GEORGE CROLY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Tis light and air again: an lo! The seine
Last Line: Drip from the attic o'er the fuming street.
Subject(s): Paris, France


A SEPTEMBER BIRTHDAY IN BRITTANY, by ABBIE FARWELL BROWN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Who counts the foolish years?
Last Line: Admiring still how sweetly you become them?
Subject(s): Birthdays; Brittany, France


A SONG OF SIXTY-FIVE, by ROBERT WILLIAM SERVICE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Brave thackeray has trolled of days when he was twenty-one
Last Line: The golden time's the olden time, some time round sixty-five.
Subject(s): Memory; Paris, France


A WALK IN CHAMOUNI, by JOHN RUSKIN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Together on the valley, white and sweet
Last Line: One neither of supremacy nor rest?
Subject(s): Alps; Chamonix, France; Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


A WOMAN OF PARIS, by EDNA DEAN PROCTOR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Retreating towards the marne, his regiment
Last Line: While women such as she are at its portal!
Alternate Author Name(s): Dean
Subject(s): Death; Fathers & Sons; France; Marriage; Soldiers; War; Dead, The; Weddings; Husbands; Wives


A WOMAN'S EXECUTION (PARIS, 1817), by EDWARD KING    Poem Text                    
First Line: Sweet-breathed and young
Last Line: "vive la commune!"
Subject(s): Capital Punishment; Paris, France; Hanging; Executions; Death Penalty


ABOUT SAVANNAH, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Come let us rejoice
Last Line: "huzza for the king and prevost, sir"
Subject(s): "american Revolution;estaing, Jean Baptiste De (1729-1794);navy - France;prevost, Augustine;savannah, Georgia;" French Navy


ACACIA, by GERALD STERN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In locust trees the roots run along the ground
Subject(s): Locust Trees; France


ADDRESS TO DUMOURIER, by ROBERT BURNS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: You're welcome to despots, dumourier
Last Line: Then we'll be damn'd, no doubt, dumourier.
Subject(s): Army - France


AFTER DUNKIRK, by ALUN LEWIS    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I have been silent a lifetime
Last Line: Of luckier babies playing in the cot
Subject(s): Dunkirk, France; Soldiers; Soldiers' Writings


AIX-EN-PROVENCE, by STEVEN CRAMER    Poem Source                    
First Line: On another side of the world
Subject(s): Provence, France


AIX-EN-PROVENCE, by FRANK O'HARA (1926-1966)    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Dreamy city where I will doubtless never go
Last Line: Sauguet and, above all! Spectacle de ballets and you
Subject(s): Provence, France


ALERT, by VICENTE HUIDOBRO    Poem Source                    
First Line: Midnight %in the garden
Last Line: How can the stars in the pond be put out
Subject(s): Airships; Aviation And Aviators; Bombs; Danger; Paris, France


ALL ROADS LEADING ME TO, by MARJORIE AGOSIN    Poem Source                    
Last Line: To night and its %faith in the time %of healing
Subject(s): Forests; France; Healing; Nature; Paintings And Painters


ALMANACH DU PRINTEMPS VIVAROIS, by HAYDEN CARRUTH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Am I obsessed by stone? Life has worn thin here
Subject(s): France


ALSACE-LORRAINE, by GEORGE MEREDITH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The sister hours in circles linked
Last Line: Have sight of haven and the crowded quays.
Subject(s): France; Nations


AN APOSTROPHE TO FRANCE, by CHARLES LOUIS HENRY WAGNER    Poem Text                    
First Line: I cannot speak thy tongue, o, france
Last Line: La marseilles.
Subject(s): France; Freedom; Liberty


AN EPISTLE, by MATTHEW PRIOR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: When crowding folks with strange ill faces
Last Line: That one mouse eats, while t'other's starved.
Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; England; Paris, France; Portraits; Time; English


AN EPISTLE TO THE RIGHT HONOURABLE WILLIAM PULTENEY, by JOHN GAY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Pult'ney, methinks you blame my breach of word
Last Line: All frenchmen are of petit-maitre kind.
Subject(s): England; France; Paris, France; Pulteney, William. 1st Earl Of Bath; Travel; English; Journeys; Trips


AN ORCHARD AT AVIGNON, by AGNES MARY F. ROBINSON    Poem Text                    
First Line: The hills are white, but not with snow
Last Line: And never comes again.
Alternate Author Name(s): Duclaux, Madame Emile; Darmesteter, Mary; Robinson, A. Mary F.
Subject(s): Avignon, France; Orchards


ANATOLE FRANCE AT EIGHTY, by GLADYS OAKS    Poem Source                    
First Line: A tired vulture nibbles at the bleak
Subject(s): France, Anatole (1844-1924)


APATHY, by PAUL VERLAINE    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I am the empire at the end of its decadence
Last Line: Nothing but a nameless boredom to afflict you.
Subject(s): Apathy; France


APOSTACY, by JOHN HENRY NEWMAN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: France! I will think of thee as what thou wast
Last Line: Hate of thy present self, and scarce will sound thy name.
Subject(s): France


APPARENT FAILURE, by ROBERT BROWNING    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: No, for I'll save it! Seven years since
Last Line: Nor what god blessed once, prove accurst.
Subject(s): Paris, France


APPLE TREES, by MARJORIE AGOSIN    Poem Source                    
First Line: You and I arrive in arles
Last Line: Like yearning and trembling for light
Subject(s): France; Love; Paintings And Painters; Roads; Romance; Travel


APRIL 1, 1411: THE BETROTHAL, by COLE SWENSEN    Poem Source                    
First Line: This is how they lived: the dialogue was staged
Last Line: All the way back from the black sea, which (they say) really is black
Subject(s): Berry (france); Book Of Hours; Catholic Church - Liturgy; Church Year; Fifteenth Century - Poetry; Manuscripts, Latin (medieval And Modern); Months; Tres Riches Heures Du Duc De Berry


APRIL 25: DAY OF ST. MARK, PATRON OF VELLUM: MANUFACTURE AND...., by COLE SWENSEN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Veined day; the daylight through
Last Line: Of the unborn calf %turning gold
Subject(s): Berry (france); Book Of Hours; Catholic Church - Liturgy; Church Year; Fifteenth Century - Poetry; Manuscripts, Latin (medieval And Modern); Months; Tres Riches Heures Du Duc De Berry


APRIL 2: FEAST DAY OF FRANCIS OF PAOLA, PATRON ...., by COLE SWENSEN    Poem Source                    
First Line: I do here suspend the here and this: %wood
Last Line: The quite of late, with the stars countable on the face of things. You get %used to these things
Subject(s): Berry (france); Book Of Hours; Catholic Church - Liturgy; Church Year; Fifteenth Century - Poetry; Manuscripts, Latin (medieval And Modern); Months; Tres Riches Heures Du Duc De Berry


APRIL 4, 1400, by COLE SWENSEN    Poem Source                    
First Line: 4=3 +1 = trinity (holy) fused to (ideal) unity (or multiplicity ruptured by
Last Line: And this at the height %of the plague
Subject(s): Berry (france); Book Of Hours; Catholic Church - Liturgy; Church Year; Fifteenth Century - Poetry; Manuscripts, Latin (medieval And Modern); Months; Tres Riches Heures Du Duc De Berry


APRIL: IN THE GARDEN, by COLE SWENSEN    Poem Source                    
First Line: The earth tilts, cracking open fields and the courtyard, %open
Last Line: Beauty is no less unlikely for having been invented
Subject(s): Berry (france); Book Of Hours; Catholic Church - Liturgy; Church Year; Fifteenth Century - Poetry; Manuscripts, Latin (medieval And Modern); Months; Tres Riches Heures Du Duc De Berry


ARLES, by MARJORIE AGOSIN    Poem Source                    
First Line: We have arrived in arles
Last Line: Because we are a single goblet of silent, heavy wine
Subject(s): France; Hearts; Love; Travel


ARMENONVILLE, by EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: By the lake at armenonville in the bois de boulogne
Alternate Author Name(s): Boyd, Nancy; Boissevain, Eugen, Mrs.
Subject(s): Paris, France


ARMENONVILLE, by EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: By the lake at armenonville in the bois de boulogne
Last Line: I was aghast at my absence, for truly I did not know %whether you had been asking or telling
Alternate Author Name(s): Boyd, Nancy; Boissevain, Eugen, Mrs.
Subject(s): Paris, France


AROUND PARIS, by RON PADGETT    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Everything in paris is round
Last Line: As lots of circles.
Subject(s): Paintings And Painters; Paris, France


ART OF MEASURING LIGHT (FROM THE PONT-NEUF, PARIS), by ELLEN HINSEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: The light here has begin to pass and as it passes
Last Line: Lanterns -- swinging slowly in narrow arcs
Subject(s): Light; Paris, France


AT A COUNTRY DANCE IN PROVENCE, by HAROLD MUNRO    Poem Source                    
First Line: Comrades, when the air is sweet
Subject(s): Dancing And Dancers; Provence, France


AT CARCASSONNE, by WINFRED ERNEST GARRISON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Down the valleys of languedoc
Last Line: In my children's time may there be no war.
Subject(s): Carcassonne, France; Social Protest; Soldiers; War


AT CARCASSONNE, by GEORGE CRAIG STEWART    Poem Source                    
First Line: The years are but a passing sigh
Subject(s): Carcassonne, France


AT CHIDEOCK: SEPT 2, 1914, by VICTOR GUSTAVE PLARR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: In skies washed over with bright amethyst
Last Line: For england, and for man, and for the world!
Subject(s): Anniversaries; France; Future; Nostalgia


AT CITOYENNE TUSSAUD'S, by VICTOR GUSTAVE PLARR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The place is full of whispers - 'mark you, sirs
Last Line: They only look so infinitely tired!
Subject(s): France; Gossip; Murder; Tussaud's Wax Museum


AT DIEPPE: 1. AFTER SUNSET, by ARTHUR WILLIAM SYMONS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The sea lies quieted beneath
Last Line: Look down upon the sea.
Subject(s): Dieppe, France; Evening; Sunset; Twilight


AT DIEPPE: 2. ON THE BEACH, by ARTHUR WILLIAM SYMONS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Night, a grey sky, a ghostly sea
Last Line: Blots out the very hope of day.
Subject(s): Dieppe, France; Seashore; Beach; Coast; Shore


AT DIEPPE: 3. RAIN ON THE DOWN, by ARTHUR WILLIAM SYMONS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Night, and the down by the sea
Last Line: As she came to me out of the rain.
Subject(s): Dieppe, France; Rain


AT DIEPPE: 4. BEFORE THE SQUALL, by ARTHUR WILLIAM SYMONS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The wind is rising on the sea
Last Line: The sails that fly before the squall.
Subject(s): Dieppe, France; Storms


AT DIEPPE: 5. UNDER THE CLIFFS, by ARTHUR WILLIAM SYMONS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Bright light to windward on the horizon's verge
Last Line: The footsteps of another voyager.
Subject(s): Dieppe, France


AT DIEPPE: 6. REQUIES, by ARTHUR WILLIAM SYMONS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: O is it death or life
Last Line: Of the eternal sea?
Subject(s): Dieppe, France


AT FONTAINBLEAU, by ARTHUR WILLIAM SYMONS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: It was a day of sun and rain
Last Line: Among the woods of fontainebleau.
Subject(s): Fontainebleau, France


AT HAVRE DE GRACE, by LEWIS MORRIS (1833-1907)    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Above the busy norman town
Last Line: Again the fair eternal child.
Subject(s): Le Havre, France


AT NIGHT, by MARJORIE AGOSIN    Poem Source                    
Last Line: I love you and I give you my voice
Subject(s): France; Hearts; Love; Poetry And Poets; Romance


AT SAINTE-MARGUERITE, by TRUMBULL STICKNEY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The gray [or, grey] tide flows and flounders in the rocks
Subject(s): France; Seashore; Beach; Coast; Shore


AT SAINTE-MARGUERITE, by TRUMBULL STICKNEY    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The gray [or, grey] tide flows and flounders in the rocks
Last Line: In thy own self's perennial masterdom
Subject(s): France; Seashore


AT STE. THERESE, by SUSAN FRANCES HARRISON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The quaint stiff metres of olden france?
Last Line: Over the lombardy poplar trees.
Alternate Author Name(s): Seranus; Frances, Susan
Subject(s): Canada; Churches; France; Canadians; Cathedrals


AT THE BAL MASQUE; COLUMBINE TO PIERROT, by FORD MADOX FORD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Ah - ah- ah - if you ask for a love like that
Last Line: Qu'est c'-qu'est c'-qu'est c' que tu fais dans cette galère?
Alternate Author Name(s): Hueffer, Ford Hermann; Hueffer, Ford Madox
Subject(s): France; French Language; Love


AT THE BRITISH WAR CEMETERY, BAYEUX, by CHARLES STANLEY CAUSLEY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I walked where in their talking graves
Alternate Author Name(s): Causley, Charles
Subject(s): Cemeteries; France; World War Ii; Graveyards; Second World War


AT THE BRITISH WAR CEMETERY, BAYEUX, by CHARLES STANLEY CAUSLEY    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I walked where in their talking graves
Last Line: Is the one gift you cannot give
Alternate Author Name(s): Causley, Charles
Subject(s): Cemeteries; France; World War Ii


AT THE MUSEE RODIN IN PARIS, by LAURE-ANNE BOSSELAAR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In front of a window
Last Line: A shadow to the ground.
Subject(s): Air; Museums; Paris, France; Rodin, Auguste (1840-1917); Sculpture & Sculptors; Secrets; Art Gallerys


AT VAUCLUSE, by ALFRED AUSTIN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: By avignon's dismantled walls
Last Line: And murmur through my heart.
Subject(s): Vaucluse, France


AU PAIR, by MARY JO SALTER    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The first thing she'd noticed, as they sat her down for lunch
Last Line: Where she had no boyfriend yet. But she was hoping
Subject(s): France; Travel


AUGUST 1424: THE FIRST DANCE MACABRE, by COLE SWENSEN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Long line of arm in and and there on the farthest wall we are
Last Line: (you dance and we'll sing.) last until lent of the coming year
Subject(s): Berry (france); Book Of Hours; Catholic Church - Liturgy; Church Year; Fifteenth Century - Poetry; Manuscripts, Latin (medieval And Modern); Months; Tres Riches Heures Du Duc De Berry


AUGUST 1427: ABUNDANCE, by COLE SWENSEN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Item: this year. %and made so beautiful august that it made never of the age of
Last Line: Can enter. Wealth of sudden fruit, call me %whatever you want
Subject(s): Berry (france); Book Of Hours; Catholic Church - Liturgy; Church Year; Fifteenth Century - Poetry; Manuscripts, Latin (medieval And Modern); Months; Tres Riches Heures Du Duc De Berry


AUGUST 17, 1427: THE FIRST RECORD OF GYPSIES IN EUROPE, by COLE SWENSEN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Sont arrives: twelve men from basse egypt
Last Line: See you walking down a long road with enormous fields on either side, very %green
Subject(s): Berry (france); Book Of Hours; Catholic Church - Liturgy; Church Year; Fifteenth Century - Poetry; Manuscripts, Latin (medieval And Modern); Months; Tres Riches Heures Du Duc De Berry


AUGUST 1: THE OUTING, by COLE SWENSEN    Poem Source                    
First Line: (all this shall someday be %birds: %plane 1: %count them: 5 %choreographed)
Last Line: Who hunt birds, it's %always morning here
Subject(s): Berry (france); Book Of Hours; Catholic Church - Liturgy; Church Year; Fifteenth Century - Poetry; Manuscripts, Latin (medieval And Modern); Months; Tres Riches Heures Du Duc De Berry


AUGUST 20, 1418: FAMINE WITH RUMORS OF WAR, by COLE SWENSEN    Poem Source                    
First Line: From the root word 'tend'
Last Line: You turned to stone or sun? How many can you see through %disguised as shore
Subject(s): Berry (france); Book Of Hours; Catholic Church - Liturgy; Church Year; Fifteenth Century - Poetry; Manuscripts, Latin (medieval And Modern); Months; Tres Riches Heures Du Duc De Berry


AUGUST 26, 1425, by COLE SWENSEN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Item: %they arm the blind. (who were also the starved)
Last Line: Denly mad. In fact, most were midly entertained, and the rest just unusually tired
Subject(s): Berry (france); Book Of Hours; Catholic Church - Liturgy; Church Year; Fifteenth Century - Poetry; Manuscripts, Latin (medieval And Modern); Months; Tres Riches Heures Du Duc De Berry


AUGUST 3: THE TOWER IN THE BACKGROUND , NAMED LA GUINETTE, WHICH IS..., by COLE SWENSEN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Things had names. Towers, jewels, swords. We vestige the gesture in
Last Line: Ask the way by name, who name %to whole this fragile hold
Subject(s): Berry (france); Book Of Hours; Catholic Church - Liturgy; Church Year; Fifteenth Century - Poetry; Manuscripts, Latin (medieval And Modern); Months; Tres Riches Heures Du Duc De Berry


AUTUMN, by KENNETH REXROTH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The children have colds and snore
Last Line: From the plane trees through the dark
Subject(s): Autumn; Provence, France


BALLAD OF THE WOMEN OF PARIS, by FRANCOIS VILLON    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: Albeit the venice girls get praise
Last Line: But no good girl's lip out of paris.
Alternate Author Name(s): Montcorbier, Francois De
Subject(s): Love; Paris, France; Women


BALLADE AGAINST THE ENEMIES OF FRANCE, by FRANCOIS VILLON    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: May he fall in with beasts that scatter fire
Last Line: Who could wish evil to the state of france!
Alternate Author Name(s): Montcorbier, Francois De
Subject(s): France; Freedom; Liberty


BALLADS OF A BOHEMIAN: L'ENVOI, by ROBERT WILLIAM SERVICE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: We've finished up the filthy war
Last Line: And so here ends my book.
Subject(s): Finality; Paris, France; Victory; War


BALLADS OF A BOHEMIAN: PRELUDE, by ROBERT WILLIAM SERVICE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Alas! Upon some starry height
Last Line: Good friends, god love you all the same.
Subject(s): Paris, France


BATTLE OF BELLEAU WOOD, by EDGAR ALBERT GUEST    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: It was thick with prussian troopers
Alternate Author Name(s): Guest, Eddie
Subject(s): Belleau Wood, France; World War I


BATTLE OF IVRY, by THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Now glory to the lords of hosts, from whom all glories are!
Last Line: Navarre!
Alternate Author Name(s): Macaulay, 1st Baron
Variant Title(s): Henry Of Navarre;ivry; A Song Of The Huguenots
Subject(s): Henry Iv, King Of France (1553-1610); Huguenots; Ivry-la-battaille, France; War


BATTLE OF THE ALMA, by JANET HAMILTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Dark lowered the thunder-cloud of death
Last Line: A prison and a tomb.
Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson
Subject(s): England; Europe; France; War; English


BEFORE I DIE (FOR JEANINE LAMBERT), by JAMES LAUGHLIN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I want to ride once more on
Last Line: Me and hold my hand
Subject(s): Cancer (disease); Paris, France; Subways


BEFORE SEDAN, by HENRY AUSTIN DOBSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Here in this leafy place
Last Line: Death will not have it so.
Alternate Author Name(s): Dobson, Austin
Subject(s): Corpses; France; Tragedy; World War I; Cadavers; First World War


BEFORE SENTENCE, by VICTOR GUSTAVE PLARR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: To-night, though every kind of poison sap
Last Line: And thine enslaving amour with the slav!
Subject(s): Courage; France; Honor; Justice; Trials; Waiting; Weariness; Valor; Bravery; Fatigue


BELLEAU WOODS, 1918, by NATHANIEL JOHN HASENFUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: All alone in belleau woods
Last Line: Gone to peaceful realms on high.
Subject(s): Belleau Wood, France; World War I; First World War


BETRAND AND GOURGAUD TALK OVER OLD TIMES, by EDGAR LEE MASTERS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Gourgaud, these tears are tears - but look, this laugh
Last Line: Drink to me, clasp my hand, embrace me, friend.
Subject(s): France; Napoleon I (1769-1821)


BIARRITZ, by KENNETH ALLAN ROBINSON    Poem Source                    
First Line: Wind in the mimosas and a wind off the seas
Last Line: Clop-clopping down the road, driving toward sedan
Subject(s): Biarritz, France


BIRTHDAY ODE FOR THE ANNIVESARY FESTIVAL OF VICTOR HUGO, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Spring born in heaven ere many a springtime flown
Last Line: Gives thanks for all thou hast given past thanks of all on earth.
Subject(s): Birthdays; France; Hugo, Victor (1802-1885); Spring


BISTRO STYX, by RITA DOVE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: She was thinner, with a mannered gauntness
Last Line: One really should try the fruit here.' %I've lost her, I thought, and called for the bill
Subject(s): Paris, France; Persephone


BONEHEAD BILL, by ROBERT WILLIAM SERVICE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I wonder 'oo and wot e' was
Last Line: The cove I croaked last night.
Subject(s): Death; Paris, France; War; Dead, The


BOOK OF VISIONS: HENRY III, by PAUL FORT    Poem Text                    
First Line: The chairs and tables sleep. The tapestries are drawn. At times the
Last Line: Saint-germain-l'auxerrois sonorous midnight beats.
Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Henry Iii, King Of France (1551-1589); Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens


BOOK OF VISIONS: THE LITTLE LIGHTS, by PAUL FORT    Poem Text                    
First Line: Starred nights, white days and days of blue, each chasing each with
Last Line: Shall close my eyes on earth to the dancing of the little lights.
Subject(s): Death; France; Stars; Dead, The


BOOK-STALLS ON THE SEINE, by CHARLES LEWIS SLATTERY    Poem Source                    
First Line: When you're in paris next, just after rain
Subject(s): Books; Paris, France


BORDEAUX, by JASON SHINDER    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I was on my knees, pulling grapes, filling my basket
Subject(s): Alcoholics And Alcoholism; Bordeaux, France


BRAVO, PARIS EXPOSITION!, by WALT WHITMAN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Add to your show, before you close it, france
Last Line: America's applause, love, memories and good-will.
Subject(s): Exhibitions; Paris, France; World's Fairs; Expositions


BREITMANN IN PARIS, by CHARLES GODFREY LELAND    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Der tuefel's los in bal mabille
Last Line: Who finds a lvin' spirit in %der teufel under der flesh
Alternate Author Name(s): Breitmann, Hans
Subject(s): Paris, France


BRYAN OF BRITTANY, by JAMES ELROY FLECKER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Roses are golden or white or red
Last Line: "must over the hill with me."
Subject(s): Brittany, France


BUD POWELL AT THE CLUB MONTMARTE, 1961, by IRA SADOFF            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: All of paris was a hospital. / doctors stocked revolvers, smoked cigars\
Subject(s): Paris, France; Powell, Bud (earl) (1924-1966)


BUD POWELL AT THE CLUB MONTMARTE, 1961, by IRA SADOFF    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: All of paris was a hospital. %doctors stocked revolvers, smoked cigars\
Last Line: Show me your hands,' %he said. 'your ordinary hands'
Subject(s): Paris, France; Powell, Bud (earl) (1924-1966)


BUD POWELL, PARIS, 1959, by WILLIAM MATTHEWS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I'd never seen pain for bland
Alternate Author Name(s): Matthews, William Procter
Subject(s): Jazz; Music & Musicians; Paris, France; Powell, Bud (earl) (1924-1966)


BUD POWELL, PARIS, 1959, by WILLIAM MATTHEWS    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I'd never seen pain for bland
Last Line: And calls it company, and it is
Alternate Author Name(s): Matthews, William Procter
Subject(s): Jazz; Music And Musicians; Paris, France; Powell, Bud (earl) (1924-1966)


BY THE SEINE, by AFAA MICHAEL WEAVER    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The mist of the sky's mouth
Last Line: Whose life was flashing in my hand, %filling the stations of empty dreams
Alternate Author Name(s): Weaver, Michael S.
Subject(s): Seine (river), France


BY THE SEINE, A PROMISE, by JIM BARNES    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Paris from montreuil to etoile
Last Line: We will %remember promises and fold %each moment here in leaves of gold
Subject(s): Paris, France; Seine (river), France


BYPASSING RUE DESCARTES / I DESCENDED TOWARD THE SEINE, by CZESLAW MILOSZ    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: And what I have met with in life was the just punishment %which reaches, sooner or later, the breake
Subject(s): Paris, France


CAFE TORTONI ('81), by WILLIAM ROSE BENET    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Edouard manet (solus)
Last Line: I left them—well—a living world!
Subject(s): Bars & Bartenders; Food & Eating; France; Restaurants; Pubs; Taverns; Saloons; Cafes; Diners


CALAIS, by GLYN MAXWELL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: They tin-opened his head
Subject(s): Calais, France


CALAIS BEACON, by AGNES MARY F. ROBINSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: For long before we came upon the coast and the line of the surge
Last Line: And know not of your light!
Alternate Author Name(s): Duclaux, Madame Emile; Darmesteter, Mary; Robinson, A. Mary F.
Subject(s): Calais, France; Lighthouses


CALAIS SANDS, by MATTHEW ARNOLD    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A thousand knights have rein'd their steeds
Last Line: Beneath one roof, my queen! With mine.
Subject(s): Calais, France


CALAIS, AUGUST 15, 1802, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Festivals have I seen that were not names
Last Line: The destiny of man, and live in hope.
Subject(s): France


CALAIS, AUGUST, 1802, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Is it a reed that's shaken by the wind
Last Line: Shame on you, feeble heads, to slavery prone!
Subject(s): France


CARCASONNE, by GUSTAVE NADAUD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Age bows my neck, and I have wrought
Last Line: -- he never did see carcasonne!
Subject(s): Aging; Carcassonne, France


CARCASSONNE, by EMMA VORIES MEYER    Poem Text                    
First Line: I gazed upon the towers
Last Line: If love should come too late!
Alternate Author Name(s): Meyer, Emma Voorhees
Subject(s): Carcassonne, France


CARCASSONNE, by GUSTAVE NADAUD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I'm growing old, I've sixty years
Last Line: He never gazed on carcassonne.
Subject(s): Carcassonne, France; Travel; Journeys; Trips


CARCASSONNE, by GUSTAVE NADAUD    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: How old I am! I'm eighty years!
Subject(s): Carcassonne, France; Travel


CARCASSONNE (SUGGESTED BY LORD DUNSANY'S STORY), by BERTON BRALEY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Oh, we are young and it is spring
Last Line: We're on our way to carcassonne.
Subject(s): Carcassonne, France


CARENTAN O CARENTAN, by LOUIS SIMPSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis         Recitation     Poet's Biography
First Line: Trees in the old days used to stand / and shape a shady land
Subject(s): D Day (june 6, 1944); World War Ii; Normandy (france), Invasion Of; Second World War


CARNAC, by EUGENE GUILLEVIC    Poem Source                    
First Line: Sea on the edge of nothingness
Last Line: I who dreamt %of finding equilibrium
Subject(s): Brittany, France


CARNAGE: 4. RHEIMS, by PERCY MACKAYE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Apollo mourns another parthenon
Last Line: More bitter than to battle — is to feel.
Alternate Author Name(s): Mackaye, Percy Wallace
Subject(s): Apollo; Mythology - Classical; Napoleon I (1769-1821); Pain; Rheims, France; Ruins; World War I; Suffering; Misery; First World War


CARNAGE: 5. KULTUR, by PERCY MACKAYE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: If men must murder, pillage, sack, despoil
Last Line: To answer him: once rheims was — and louvain!
Alternate Author Name(s): Mackaye, Percy Wallace
Subject(s): Culture Conflict; Louvain, Belgium; Rheims, France; World War I; First World War


CATASTROPHE, by ROBERT WILLIAM SERVICE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: And now I fear I must write in another strain
Subject(s): Paris, France


CHARLOTTE CORDAY, by VICTOR GUSTAVE PLARR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The furies born of night and tumult mar
Last Line: And know this well that time shall praise thy deed.
Subject(s): Death; France; Heroism; Dead, The; Heroes; Heroines


CHARTRES, by RAYMOND HENRI    Poem Source                    
First Line: These carved and glowing crowds
Subject(s): Architecture And Architects; Chartres, France; Churches


CHARTRES, by JULIE SUK    Poem Source                    
First Line: I could be anywhere in the states
Last Line: Not these stones, the rapture, %rising for now out of our hands
Subject(s): Chartres, France; Travel


CHARTRES, by EDITH WHARTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Immense, august, like some titanic bloom
Last Line: The roseate coldness of an alp at dawn.
Subject(s): Cathedral Of Notre-dame, Chartres; Chartres, France


CHAUVINISM, by FRANCOIS COPPEE    Poem Text                    
First Line: I admit it. I cannot enter
Last Line: "the neighbor's wife, or your mamma?"
Subject(s): France; Poetry & Poets


CHRISTMAS EVE IN FRANCE, by JESSIE REDMOND FAUSET    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Oh little christ, why do you sigh
Last Line: "shall live for evermore."
Subject(s): Christmas; France; Nativity, The


CHRISTMAS IN PROVENCE, by MARY THERESE MADELEVA    Poem Source                    
First Line: This age-old church, dream-stricken yesterday
Alternate Author Name(s): Wolff, Mary Evaline
Subject(s): Christmas; Provence, France


CITIES, by PAUL CLAUDEL    Poem Source                    
First Line: As there are books on beehives
Last Line: A book indeed
Subject(s): Boston; China; Cities; London; New York City; Paris, France


CLOCHARD, by WISLAWA SZYMBORSKA    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In paris, on a day that stayed morning until dusk
Subject(s): Paris, France


CLYTAEMNESTRA IN PARIS, by LEWIS MORRIS (1833-1907)    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I seemed to pace the dreadful corridors
Last Line: "how long?"" I cried, ""how long?"
Subject(s): Murder; Paris, France; Women


COACHES OF TARASCON, by ROBERT FAGLES    Poem Source                    
First Line: Travel light-the coaches, look
Last Line: Provence, a highway paved with dreams is waiting- %you and I will travel like the wind!
Subject(s): Provence, France


COLINETTE, by ANDREW LANG    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: France your country, as we know
Last Line: New art's blossom, colinette.
Subject(s): France


COQ AU VIN, by JOHN CIARDI    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In paris once, just as the waiter
Last Line: And I flung down my napkin and fled %with a sound in me like ripped cloth
Subject(s): Paris, France; Restaurants


CORSICAN DROVER, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: How chang'd the scene of late has been
Last Line: And drove them back from paris
Subject(s): France;immigrants;london; Emigrant;emigration;immigration


COUCY-LE-CHATEAU: THE ARRIVAL AT COUCY-LE-CHATEAU, by PAUL FORT    Poem Text                    
First Line: I said, 'I shall behold white cloudlets, round and fair, in traversing
Last Line: Hour when one dines, while the city fans itself with circling flights of doves!
Subject(s): Fate; France; Destiny


COUNT GISMOND, by ROBERT BROWNING    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Christ god, who savest man, save most
Last Line: How many birds it struck since may.
Subject(s): Aix, France; Duels


CYPRESSES OF PROVENCE, by FRANCES REUBELT    Poem Source                    
First Line: By broken shrine of where white roads advance
Subject(s): Cypress Trees; Provence, France


DECEMBER 0: NEW MATH, by COLE SWENSEN    Poem Source                    
First Line: How feared it was this certain
Last Line: Acre in and into %entire rooms, whole towns, our mouths
Subject(s): Berry (france); Book Of Hours; Catholic Church - Liturgy; Church Year; Fifteenth Century - Poetry; Manuscripts, Latin (medieval And Modern); Months; Tres Riches Heures Du Duc De Berry


DECEMBER 1: THE HUNT, by COLE SWENSEN    Poem Source                    
First Line: To every month %its animal %animal
Last Line: Every instant of an animal's life and almost makes it equal
Subject(s): Berry (france); Book Of Hours; Catholic Church - Liturgy; Church Year; Fifteenth Century - Poetry; Manuscripts, Latin (medieval And Modern); Months; Tres Riches Heures Du Duc De Berry


DECEMBER 24TH, PARIS - NOTRE DAME, by SANDRA CISNEROS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The seine runs along
Last Line: The heart begging once again
Subject(s): Notre Dame Cathedral, Paris; Paris, France; Seine (river), France


DECEMBER 24TH, PARIS - NOTRE DAME, by SANDRA CISNEROS    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The seine runs along
Subject(s): Notre Dame Cathedral, Paris; Paris, France; Seine (river), France


DECEMBER 25, 1456: JE FRANCOYS VILLON, ESCOLLIER, by COLE SWENSEN    Poem Source                    
First Line: It's snowing %bitter %ground
Last Line: Who said when wolves live on the wind they get fat
Subject(s): Berry (france); Book Of Hours; Catholic Church - Liturgy; Church Year; Fifteenth Century - Poetry; Manuscripts, Latin (medieval And Modern); Months; Tres Riches Heures Du Duc De Berry


DECEMBER 28: DAY OF THE SAINTS-INNOCENTS, by COLE SWENSEN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Were not counted %we lost count
Last Line: The dead, utter in their number, and wrong
Subject(s): Berry (france); Book Of Hours; Catholic Church - Liturgy; Church Year; Fifteenth Century - Poetry; Manuscripts, Latin (medieval And Modern); Months; Tres Riches Heures Du Duc De Berry


DO YOU REMEMBER ONCE, by ALAN SEEGER    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Do you remember once, in paris of glad faces
Last Line: Seemed in its tragic, momentary splendor %my transit through the beauty of the world
Subject(s): Love; Paris, France


DOMESDAY BOOK: AT NICE, by EDGAR LEE MASTERS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Dear, let me tell you, safe beside you now
Last Line: To coroner merival in a leisure hour:
Subject(s): Drinks & Drinking; France; Guns; Love; Soldiers; Wine


DOMESDAY BOOK: BARRETT BAYS, by EDGAR LEE MASTERS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I was walking by the river, barrett said
Last Line: Came in and led him from the jury room.
Subject(s): France; Life; Love; Past; War


DRAGON AND THE UNICORN: 2, by KENNETH REXROTH    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The art of worldly wisdom
Last Line: Man, eagle, bull, and lion
Subject(s): Dragons; France; Unicorns


DREYFUS, by FLORENCE EARLE COATES    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                
First Line: France has no dungeons in her island tomb
Last Line: She questions, and thy foes shall answer yet.
Subject(s): Dreyfus, Alfred (1859-1935); France; Jews; Judaism


DRIVING IN PROVENCE, by JOAN CONNOR    Poem Source                    
First Line: I can imagine going mad here
Last Line: We're far too happy for awe
Subject(s): Provence, France


DUNKIRK, by SUSAN D'ARCY CLARK    Poem Text                    
First Line: They looked at death
Last Line: "immortals these,"" and laid his scythe away."
Subject(s): Death; Dunkirk, France; Immortality; World War Ii; Dead, The; Second World War


DUNKIRK, by ROBERT NATHAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Will came back from school that day
Last Line: There at his side sat francis drake, %and held him true and steered him home
Subject(s): Dunkirk, France; England; Retreats (military); World War Ii


DUNKIRK, by EDWIN JOHN PRATT    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: So long as light shall shine upon a world
Last Line: Attending causes ultimately won - %thermopylae, corunna or verdun
Alternate Author Name(s): Pratt, E. J.
Subject(s): Dunkirk, France; Retreats (military); World War Ii


DUNKIRK, by LAURA ELIZABETH HOWE RICHARDS    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: What is the word tonight?
Alternate Author Name(s): Richards, Laura E.
Subject(s): Dunkirk, France


DUNKIRK PIER, by ALAN ROOK    Poem Source                    
First Line: Deeply across the waves of our darkness fear
Subject(s): Dunkirk, France; Soldiers


DUST AND GLORY, by WILLIAM EVERSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: On the lorranian knoll a leaning peasant sinking a pit
Alternate Author Name(s): Antoninus, Brother
Subject(s): France


DYING IN PARIS: 1. DEATH AND MORPHINE, by HEINRICH HEINE    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Yes, in the end they are much of a pair
Last Line: Not to have been born is of course the miracle
Subject(s): Death; Paris, France


DYING IN PARIS: 2, by HEINRICH HEINE    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Every idle desire has died in my breast
Last Line: Glorious shadow-king of the underworld
Subject(s): Death; Paris, France


DYING IN PARIS: 3, by HEINRICH HEINE    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: My zenith was luckily happier than my night
Last Line: Midsummer's frail and green-juice bird's-nest
Subject(s): Death; Paris, France


DYNASTS: 1. ACT FIFTH, by THOMAS HARDY    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: At last villeneuve accepts the sea and fate
Last Line: And fiercely the predestined plot proceeds
Subject(s): Great Britain - Relations With France; Napoleon I (1769-1821)


DYNASTS: 1. ACT FIRST, by THOMAS HARDY    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Hark now, and gather how the martial mood
Last Line: Affection ever was illogical
Subject(s): Great Britain - Relations With France; Napoleon I (1769-1821)


DYNASTS: 1. ACT FOURTH, by THOMAS HARDY    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Yes, yes, I grasp your reasons, mr. Pitt
Last Line: He's staunch. He's watching, or I am much deceived
Subject(s): Great Britain - Relations With France; Napoleon I (1769-1821)


DYNASTS: 1. ACT SECOND, by THOMAS HARDY    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Our migratory proskenion now presents
Last Line: And if he's not, why, we've a holiday!
Subject(s): Great Britain - Relations With France; Napoleon I (1769-1821)


DYNASTS: 1. ACT SIXTH, by THOMAS HARDY    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Soldiers, the hordes of muscovy now face you
Last Line: A gauze of shadow overdraws
Subject(s): Great Britain - Relations With France; Napoleon I (1769-1821)


DYNASTS: 1. ACT THIRD, by THOMAS HARDY    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Monsieur the admiral decres
Last Line: If time's weird threads to weave!
Subject(s): Great Britain - Relations With France; Napoleon I (1769-1821)


DYNASTS: 1. FORE SCENE. THE OVERWORLD, by THOMAS HARDY    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: What of the immanent will and its designs?
Last Line: We may but muse on, never learn
Subject(s): Great Britain - Relations With France; Napoleon I (1769-1821)


DYNASTS: 2. ACT FIFTH, by THOMAS HARDY    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Napoleon even now embraces not
Last Line: Over the scene they disappear
Subject(s): Great Britain - Relations With France; Napoleon I (1769-1821)


DYNASTS: 2. ACT FIRST, by THOMAS HARDY    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Another stranger presses to see you, sir
Last Line: And peoples are enmeshed in new calamity!
Subject(s): Great Britain - Relations With France; Napoleon I (1769-1821)


DYNASTS: 2. ACT FOURTH, by THOMAS HARDY    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Whether the rain comes in or not
Last Line: Whether ye sigh their sighs with them or no!
Subject(s): Great Britain - Relations With France; Napoleon I (1769-1821)


DYNASTS: 2. ACT SECOND, by THOMAS HARDY    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The life-guards still insist, love, that the king
Last Line: Will light me in
Subject(s): Great Britain - Relations With France; Napoleon I (1769-1821)


DYNASTS: 2. ACT SIXTH, by THOMAS HARDY    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A bird's eye perspective is revealed of the peninsular trace
Last Line: A painless hand
Subject(s): Great Britain - Relations With France; Napoleon I (1769-1821)


DYNASTS: 2. ACT THIRD, by THOMAS HARDY    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Now he's one of the eighty-first
Last Line: The night closes over
Subject(s): Great Britain - Relations With France; Napoleon I (1769-1821)


DYNASTS: 3. ACT FIRST, by THOMAS HARDY    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The portent is an ill one, emperor
Last Line: The woes of moscow
Subject(s): Great Britain - Relations With France; Napoleon I (1769-1821)


DYNASTS: 3. ACT FOURTH, by THOMAS HARDY    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The view is from a vague altitude over the beautiful country
Last Line: The opera house becomes lost in darkness
Subject(s): Great Britain - Relations With France; Napoleon I (1769-1821)


DYNASTS: 3. ACT SECOND, by THOMAS HARDY    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: This grateful rest of four-and-twenty hours
Last Line: To leipzig city, and await the blow
Subject(s): Great Britain - Relations With France; Napoleon I (1769-1821)


DYNASTS: 3. ACT SEVENTH. THE FIELD OF WATERLOO, by THOMAS HARDY    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: An aerial view of the battlefield at the time of sunrise
Last Line: Because it must
Subject(s): Great Britain - Relations With France; Napoleon I (1769-1821)


DYNASTS: 3. ACT SIXTH, by THOMAS HARDY    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The village of beaumont stands in the centre foreground
Last Line: From to-morrow's mist-fall till time is sped
Subject(s): Great Britain - Relations With France; Napoleon I (1769-1821); Science; Waterloo


DYNASTS: 3. ACT THIRD, by THOMAS HARDY    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: We come; and learn as time's disordered deaf sands run
Last Line: The dawn must find us fording the nivelle!
Subject(s): Great Britain - Relations With France; Napoleon I (1769-1821)


DYNASTS: 3. AFTER SCENE. THE OVERWORLD, by THOMAS HARDY    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Thus doth the great foresightless mechanize
Last Line: Concious the will informing, till it fashion all things fair
Subject(s): Great Britain - Relations With France; Napoleon I (1769-1821)


EARLY MORNING: OURS OF THE WHOLLY SPIRIT, by COLE SWENSEN    Poem Source                    
First Line: In sequential moment %follow glory and the glory to be %nearly pointed out
Last Line: Reigns %without amen who lives
Subject(s): Berry (france); Book Of Hours; Catholic Church - Liturgy; Church Year; Fifteenth Century - Poetry; Manuscripts, Latin (medieval And Modern); Months; Tres Riches Heures Du Duc De Berry


ECCLESIASTICAL SONNETS: PART 3: 36. EMIGRANT FRENCH CLERGY, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Even while I speak, the sacred roofs of france
Last Line: Give to their faith a fearless resting-place.
Subject(s): Clergy; France; Priests; Rabbis; Ministers; Bishops


ELEGIES FOR THE OCHER DEER ON THE WALLS AT LASCAUX, by NORMAN DUBIE    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: You are hearing a distant, almost familiar, french cradlesong
Last Line: A white baton flew up!
Subject(s): Caves; China; Clergy; Deer; France; Lament; Caverns; Priests; Rabbis; Ministers; Bishops


EN TOUR; A SONG SEQUENCE: 4. FOR FRANCES ANN, by ALBERTA BANCROFT    Poem Text                    
First Line: The little shop near pere-la-chaise
Last Line: And please remember.
Subject(s): France; Memory


EPILOGUE TO THE UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD, 1673, by JOHN DRYDEN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: No poor dutch peasant, winged with all his fear
Last Line: We'll boldly back, and say their price is rais'd.
Variant Title(s): Epilogue Spoken At The Acting Of The 'silent Woman'
Subject(s): England; Fear; France; Oxford University; Plays & Playwrights ; War; English; Dramatists


EPITALAMIUM ON MARRIAGE OF MARY QUEEN OF SCOTS AND FRANCIS, by GEORGE+(2) BUCHANAN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis            
First Line: What sudden heat inspires my lab'ring mind?
Last Line: An union which may time and death defy, %and with the stars have co-eternity
Subject(s): Francis Ii, King Of France (1544-1560); Mary, Queen Of Scots (1542-1587)


ESTHER; 27, by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Thus was my soul enfranchised. But anon
Subject(s): Lyons, France


EUROPE A PROPHECY, by WILLIAM BLAKE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Five windows light the cavern'd man: thro' one he breathes the air
Last Line: Call'd all his sons to the strife of blood.
Subject(s): Bible; Europe; Great Britain - Wars With France; Mythology


EVOLUTION OF THE GARDEN, by COLE SWENSEN    Poem Source                    
First Line: As albertus magnus instructs us
Last Line: We could live here %gardinum %hundreds %of acres set aside for watching animals
Subject(s): Berry (france); Book Of Hours; Catholic Church - Liturgy; Church Year; Fifteenth Century - Poetry; Manuscripts, Latin (medieval And Modern); Months; Tres Riches Heures Du Duc De Berry


EXILE IN PARIS, 1899, by JANE YEH    Poem Source                    
First Line: Where the trees are thick in their trunks, hard-veined
Last Line: & astonishing in their finery. Turn, counterturn, stand
Subject(s): Paris, France; Trees


EXILE, SELS., by MARIE RENE AUGUSTE ALEXIS SAINT-LEGER LEGER                       
Subject(s): Exiles; France; World War Ii


EXTENTE CORDIALE, by HENRY AUSTIN DOBSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Now side by side curvet and prance
Last Line: Now side by side!
Alternate Author Name(s): Dobson, Austin
Subject(s): England; France; Peace; English


FACILITY, by ROBERT WILLIAM SERVICE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: So easy 'tis to make a rhyme
Last Line: I've got to make my living.
Subject(s): Paris, France; Poetry & Poets; Writing & Writers


FAREWELL TO FRANCE, by MARIE STUART    Poem Source                    
First Line: Goodbye to pleasant france
Subject(s): France


FAREWELL TO THE SHOPPING DISTRICT OF ANTIBES, by JOHN UPDIKE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Next week, alas, boulangerie
Last Line: Journaux will ask, though I'm away, %'un autre mari pour b.B.?'
Subject(s): Antibes, France


FEBRUARY 1 BIS, by COLE SWENSEN    Poem Source                    
First Line: And the body between word and world fuses, frays'
Last Line: The footsteps leading up to it %all by themselves, hives
Subject(s): Berry (france); Book Of Hours; Catholic Church - Liturgy; Church Year; Fifteenth Century - Poetry; Manuscripts, Latin (medieval And Modern); Months; Tres Riches Heures Du Duc De Berry


FEBRUARY 14, 1404: THE BIRTH OF LEON BATTISTA ALBERTI, by COLE SWENSEN    Poem Source                    
First Line: One-eyed ceiling %always vault saw converging
Last Line: The fan becomes a fan
Subject(s): Berry (france); Book Of Hours; Catholic Church - Liturgy; Church Year; Fifteenth Century - Poetry; Manuscripts, Latin (medieval And Modern); Months; Tres Riches Heures Du Duc De Berry


FEBRUARY 19, 1414: FIRST APPEARANCE OF THE WHOOPING COUGH IN EUROPE, by COLE SWENSEN    Poem Source                    
First Line: All these cranes they say omen as they might/ as if a
Last Line: White slice in (cf. White) (cf. Within)
Subject(s): Berry (france); Book Of Hours; Catholic Church - Liturgy; Church Year; Fifteenth Century - Poetry; Manuscripts, Latin (medieval And Modern); Months; Tres Riches Heures Du Duc De Berry


FEBRUARY 1: WINTER AGRICULTURE, by COLE SWENSEN    Poem Source                    
First Line: And here to our left we see
Last Line: Maps, my lady, we live in a tiny, tiny world
Subject(s): Berry (france); Book Of Hours; Catholic Church - Liturgy; Church Year; Fifteenth Century - Poetry; Manuscripts, Latin (medieval And Modern); Months; Tres Riches Heures Du Duc De Berry


FEBRUARY 2: THE BENEDICTION OF THE CANDLES, by COLE SWENSEN    Poem Source                    
First Line: When the faithful go marked %forehead in ashes washes
Last Line: A strange shape for paradise. I thought it would be more round
Subject(s): Berry (france); Book Of Hours; Catholic Church - Liturgy; Church Year; Fifteenth Century - Poetry; Manuscripts, Latin (medieval And Modern); Months; Tres Riches Heures Du Duc De Berry


FI-FI IN BED, by ROBERT WILLIAM SERVICE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Up into the sky I stare
Last Line: "please, dear god, I pity you."
Subject(s): Paris, France


FINISTERE, by ROBERT WILLIAM SERVICE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Hurrah! I'm off to finistere, to finistere, to finistere
Last Line: When I come back to montparnasse and dream of finistere
Subject(s): Fish & Fishing; Paris, France


FIRST SNOW IN ALSACE, by RICHARD WILBUR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The snow came down last night like moths
Subject(s): Alsace, France; World War Ii; Second World War


FIRST SNOW IN ALSACE, by RICHARD WILBUR    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The snow came down last night like moths
Last Line: He was the first to see the snow
Subject(s): Alsace, France; World War Ii


FISH-WOMEN - ON LANDING AT CALAIS, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Tis said, fantastic ocean doth enfold
Last Line: The undisturbed abodes where sea-nymphs dwell!
Subject(s): Calais, France; Sea; Ocean


FLAMINGOS; JARDIN DE PLANTES, PARIS, by RAINER MARIA RILKE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: With all the subtle paints of fragonard
Last Line: But they stretch out, astonished, and one by one %stride into their imaginary world
Subject(s): Flamingos; Paris, France


FLOWER BEDS IN THE TUILERIES, by GRACE ELLERY CHANNING-STETSON    Poem Text                    
First Line: France is planting her gardens
Last Line: That earth shall have her spring!
Subject(s): Tuileries Gardens, Paris; World War I - France


FONTAINEBLEAU, by HUMPHRY DAVY    Poem Text                    
First Line: The mists disperse - and where a sullen cloud
Last Line: Never to rise!
Subject(s): Fontainebleau, France


FONTAINEBLEAU (AUTUMN), by SARA TEASDALE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Interminable palaces front on the green parterres
Last Line: Four centuries of autumns, four centuries of leaves.
Alternate Author Name(s): Filsinger, Ernest B., Mrs.
Subject(s): Autumn; Fontainebleau, France; Seasons; Fall


FOR MARY STUART, IN CAPTIVITY, by PIERRE DE RONSARD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Though by wide seas and time we sundered are
Last Line: To free from slavery a queen so fair!
Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; France; Mary, Queen Of Scots (1542-1587); Slavery; Time; Mary Stuart; Serfs


FOR NEW YEAR'S DAY 1698, by NAHUM TATE    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Music now thy charms display
Last Line: Happy, happy, past expressing.
Subject(s): Great Britain - Wars With France; Heroism; Holidays; New Year; Peace; Soldiers; War; Heroes; Heroines


FOR NEW YEAR'S DAY 1703, by NAHUM TATE    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Hark, how the muses call aloud
Last Line: England's protecting george, and guardian of the main.
Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Great Britain - Wars With France; Happiness; Holidays; New Year; Peace; Queen Anne's Lace; Joy; Delight


FOR THE ALBUM OF THE DUCHESS DE GUICHE, by WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Children! While childhood lasts, one day
Last Line: Than all her brightest arms have won.
Subject(s): Children; France; Italy; Childhood; Italians


FOR THE FEAST OF ST. GENEVIEVE AND JOAN OF ARC, SELECTION, by CHARLES PEGUY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: As once she tended the sheep in nanterre
Last Line: The wisest flock to the father's right hand.
Subject(s): Feasts; Paris, France; Shepherds & Shepherdesses


FOR THE KING'S BIRTHDAY 1718, by NICHOLAS ROWE    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Oh touch the string, celestial muse, and say
Last Line: And britain's festival be thine.
Subject(s): Birthdays; Europe; George I, King Of England (1660-1727); Great Britain - Relations With France; Triplets; United Nations


FOR THE KING'S BIRTHDAY 1794, by HENRY JAMES PYE    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Rous'd from the gloom of transient death
Last Line: Sacred to patriot worth, to patriot bosoms dear.
Subject(s): Birthdays; Capital Punishment; George Iii, King Of England (1738-1820); Great Britain - Wars With France; Louis Xiv, King Of France (1638-1715); Pitt, William, The Younger (1759-1806); Hanging; Executions; Death Penalty


FOR THE NEW YEAR 1716, by NICHOLAS ROWE    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Hail to thee, glorious rising year
Last Line: For thee thy people all, for thee the year is blest.'
Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Crowns; George I, King Of England (1660-1727); Great Britain - Wars With France; Holidays; New Year; Odes (as Poetic Form)


FOR THE NEW YEAR 1761, by WILLIAM WHITEHEAD    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Still must the muse, indignant, hear
Last Line: And albion's dreaded strength secure the world's repose.
Subject(s): Blood; George Iii, King Of England (1738-1820); Great Britain - Commonwealth & Colonies; Great Britain - Wars With France; Mourning; Navy - Great Britain; Ruins; British Empire; England - Empire; Bereavement; English Navy


FOREWORD, by COLE SWENSEN    Poem Source                    
First Line: That mine that was a country, a %poverty starred
Last Line: But that you did %not look back
Subject(s): Berry (france); Book Of Hours; Catholic Church - Liturgy; Church Year; Fifteenth Century - Poetry; Manuscripts, Latin (medieval And Modern); Months; Tres Riches Heures Du Duc De Berry


FORGOTTEN, by PAUL FORT    Poem Text                    
First Line: France, you laugh too much, it seems. War will come to end your dreams
Last Line: France! You laugh too much, it seems. War will come to end your dreams.
Subject(s): Dreams; France; War; Nightmares


FORTUNE, THE BOCCACCIO OF JEAN SANS PEUR, 1409-1419, by COLE SWENSEN    Poem Source                    
First Line: We know our monsters only -not par l'entremise des anciens textes-but by the
Last Line: In the wind are yet other %futures, but they refuse
Subject(s): Berry (france); Book Of Hours; Catholic Church - Liturgy; Church Year; Fifteenth Century - Poetry; Manuscripts, Latin (medieval And Modern); Months; Tres Riches Heures Du Duc De Berry


FORWARD, by COLE SWENSEN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Nunc %we videmus %see
Last Line: Tunc %tunc %autem %ad faciem %si
Subject(s): Berry (france); Book Of Hours; Catholic Church - Liturgy; Church Year; Fifteenth Century - Poetry; Manuscripts, Latin (medieval And Modern); Months; Tres Riches Heures Du Duc De Berry


FOUNTAIN IN AVIGNON, by LAURE-ANNE BOSSELAAR    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Here, lovely retching moss-capped cherub: this penny's for you
Last Line: Throw them back, throw them out.
Subject(s): Angels; Avignon, France; Disdain; Faith; Fountains; Gratitude; Prayer; Wishes; Scorn; Belief; Creed


FOUNTAINS OF AIX, by MAY SWENSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Beards of water
Subject(s): Fountains; Aix, France


FOUR SHEETS TO THE WIND AND A ONE-WAY TICKET TO FRANCE, by CONRAD KENT RIVERS    Poem Source                    
First Line: As a child %I bought a red scarf and women told me
Last Line: And I shall die an old parisian
Subject(s): Paris, France


FOUR SHEETS TO THE WIND AND A ONE-WAY TICKET TO FRANCE, 1933, by CONRAD KENT RIVERS    Poem Source                    
First Line: As a black child I was a dreamer
Subject(s): Paris, France


FOURTH MONTH: APRIL: WITH PREVIEW OF JOAN OF ARC, by COLE SWENSEN    Poem Source                    
First Line: To: land, air, and water. Must be added fire. Is utterly altered by fire. Are
Last Line: Said no, it heals, said the flames seal something I was just about to think %anneals. I see an edge
Subject(s): Berry (france); Book Of Hours; Catholic Church - Liturgy; Church Year; Fifteenth Century - Poetry; Manuscripts, Latin (medieval And Modern); Months; Tres Riches Heures Du Duc De Berry


FRANCE, by CECIL CHESTERTON    Poem Text                    
First Line: Because for once the sword broke in her hand
Last Line: Take hold upon the battlements of hell.
Subject(s): World War I - France


FRANCE, by PERCY MACKAYE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Half artist and half anchorite
Last Line: Jeanne d'arc!
Alternate Author Name(s): Mackaye, Percy Wallace
Subject(s): France; Identity; Joan Of Arc (1412-1431); Nations; War


FRANCE, by EDGAR LEE MASTERS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: France fallen! France arisen! France of the brave!
Last Line: Incarnate with the soul of lafayette.
Subject(s): France


FRANCE, by SIEGFRIED SASSOON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: She triumphs, in the vivid green
Last Line: Voices of victory and delight.
Subject(s): France; Soldiers' Writings; World War I; First World War


FRANCE, 1870, by GEORGE MEREDITH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: We look for her that sunlike stood
Last Line: And bleeding head us thro' the troubles of the sea.
Subject(s): France; French Revolution (1789); Napoleon I (1769-1821)


FRANCE, 1919, by JANE YEH    Poem Source                    
First Line: We are the saviours of our country, sipping coffee from cups
Last Line: The unbetrothed hold hands, unknowingly proving us right
Subject(s): France


FRANCE: AN ODE, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Ye clouds! That far above me float and pause
Last Line: O liberty! My spirit felt thee there.
Subject(s): France - Invasion Of Switzerland (1798); Freedom; French Revolution (1789); Liberty


FRANCE; THE 18TH YEAR OF THESE STATES, by WALT WHITMAN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A great year and place
Last Line: I will yet sing a song for you ma femme.
Subject(s): France; Freedom; Liberty


FRENCH CLOCKS, 1876, by ROWLAND EYLES EGERTON-WARBURTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Electric clocks in paris now on trial
Last Line: Compel them all in unison to strike.
Alternate Author Name(s): Egerton-warburton, R. E.
Subject(s): Clocks; France; Time


FRENCH FORMAL, by GREG HEWETT    Poem Source                    
First Line: Don't count me in. Your garden has statues
Last Line: As an open field incised by a hunter's sights
Subject(s): Flowers; France; Gardens And Gardening


FRENCH LESSON: HOTEL D'EUROPE, by EDWARD FIELD    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Cheap paris hotel, a true bargain
Last Line: Quite as satisfactory as this
Alternate Author Name(s): Elliot, Bruce
Subject(s): Paris, France; Hotels; French Language


FROM FRANCE, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis            
First Line: What little bird is this that sings?
Last Line: Sing till our leaves in england dance.
Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H.
Subject(s): Birds; France


FROM FRANCE, by ISAAC ROSENBERG    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The spirit drank the cafe lights
Last Line: And this is life in france.
Subject(s): World War I - France


FROM GRENOBLE, by JAMES ELROY FLECKER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Now have I seen, in graisivaudan's vale
Last Line: And the rose-garden of my gracious home.
Subject(s): Grenoble, France; Travel; Journeys; Trips


FROM MUCK TO MUCKISH, by JANICE FITZPATRICK-SIMMONS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Fossil rock from the sligo coast, spanish bowls
Last Line: And what we drive toward willingly now
Subject(s): Great Britain - Relations With France; Napoleon I (1769-1821)


FROM THE PARIS COMMUNE TO THE KRONSTADT REBELLION, by KENNETH REXROTH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Remember now there were others before this
Subject(s): Death; Paris, France; Revolutions; Social Protest; Dead, The


FROM THE PARIS COMMUNE TO THE KRONSTADT REBELLION, by KENNETH REXROTH    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Remember now there were others before this
Last Line: And people remembering in the future
Subject(s): Death; Paris, France; Revolutions; Social Protest


GERMANY; A WINTER TALE: CAPUT 5, by HEINRICH HEINE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: And when I came to the bridge o'er the rhine
Last Line: "farewell, we shall meet hereafter."
Subject(s): France; Germany; Musset, Alfred De (1810-1857); Rhine (river), Europe; Germans


GODFREY OF BOULOGNE, by HENRY DAVID THOREAU    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The moon hung low o'er provence vales
Last Line: Twas godfrey of boulogne.
Subject(s): Godfrey Of Bouillon (1060-1100); Provence, France


GODS IN THE GUTTER, by ROBERT WILLIAM SERVICE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I dreamed I saw three demi-gods who in a cafe sat
Last Line: Who climbed and climbed the bitter steep to which men turn and pray.
Subject(s): God; Paris, France; Poverty


GOLDEN DAYS, by ROBERT WILLIAM SERVICE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Another day of toil and strife
Last Line: May be a golden one.
Subject(s): God; Gold; Paris, France


GRATUITY, by MICHAEL JOSEPH HEFFERNAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: This always happens somewhere in eastern france
Last Line: Who made his side of the bed smell of lamb's blood
Subject(s): France; Gratuities


GREAT MEN HAVE BEEN AMONG US, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Great men have been among us; hands that penned
Last Line: But equally a want of books and men!
Subject(s): Greatness; France


HAVE YOU SEEN THE EMPEROR AND EMPRESS OF THE FRENCH, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Have you seen how the people did prance
Last Line: And they had a jolly blow out
Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers;france


HENRI BERGSON'S AN INTRODUCTION TO METAPHYSICS, by GARRETT DOHERTY    Poem Source                    
First Line: Now to conlcude in terms of a bankless river
Last Line: Each petal like the best example of %what you never could have thought
Subject(s): Flowers; Paris, France


HER IMMORTALITY, by PIERRE DE RONSARD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: My lady, had I but the heaven-sent grace
Last Line: And outsoar death itself on wings of rhyme!
Subject(s): Death; Fame; France; Immortality; Time; Dead, The; Reputation


HERE IN ST. PAUL'S SANATORIUM, I FIND THE PEACE OF DELIRIUM, by MARJORIE AGOSIN    Poem Source                    
Last Line: And god within the pupils of my own eyes
Subject(s): France; Paintings And Painters


HERVE RIEL, by ROBERT BROWNING    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: On the sea and at the hogue, sixteen hundred ninety-two
Last Line: The belle aurore!
Subject(s): France; Heroism; Hogue, La, Battle Of; Sea; Heroes; Heroines; Ocean


HIGH PROVENCE, by KENNETH REXROTH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Every evening at seven o'clock
Last Line: Swimming overf the mediterranian
Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Nature; Romance; Provence, France; Male-female Relations


HILLS, by GUILLAUME APOLLINAIRE    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: Overhead in the paris sky
Last Line: And all the fragrance of the rose
Alternate Author Name(s): Kostrowitzky, Wilhelm Apollina
Subject(s): Identity; Paris, France


HIS BOYS, by ROBERT WILLIAM SERVICE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I'm going, billy, old fellow, hist, lad! Don't make any noise
Last Line: I'm happy. My boys, god bless 'em! . . . It had to be them or me.
Subject(s): Friendship; Paris, France


HISTORIC PUN, by GEORGE OPPEN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: La petite vie, a young man called it later,it had been
Subject(s): Paris, France; Modern Life


HOLOCAUST, by MARGARET SAINE    Poem Source                    
First Line: One death
Last Line: Six hours and some minutes
Subject(s): France; Holocaust, Jewish - Aftermath


HORIZONS, by PAUL FORT    Poem Text                    
First Line: On the way to paris, but toward nemours the
Last Line: Hours of night chanted the nightingale.
Subject(s): Birds; Nightingales; Paris, France; Singing & Singers; Songs


HOW CANADA WAS SAVED; MAY, 1660, by GEORGE MURRAY (1830-1910)    Poem Text                    
First Line: Beside the dark utawa's stream two hundred years / ago
Last Line: So died the peerless twenty-two—so canada was saved!
Subject(s): Canada - History-to 1763 (new France)


HOW THEY BROUGHT THE GOOD NEWS FROM GHENT TO AIX, by ROBERT BROWNING    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I sprang to the stirrup, and joris and he
Last Line: From ghent.
Variant Title(s): Ride From Ghent To Aix
Subject(s): France; Horseback Riding; Messages & Messengers


HUG THE BEAR!, by VICTOR GUSTAVE PLARR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: So 'twas for this that with consuming rage
Last Line: And down each cesspool stuff a tricolor!
Subject(s): Brotherhood; Flags; France; Hugo, Victor (1802-1885); Slavery; Serfs


HYMN TO MONT BLANC [IN THE VALE OF CHAMOUNI], by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Hast thou a charm to stay the morning-star
Last Line: Earth with her thousand voices, praises god.
Variant Title(s): Before Sunrise, In The Vale Of Chamouni;chamouny;mont Blanc Before Sunrise;hymn Before Sunrise, In The Vale Of Chamouni
Subject(s): Alps; Blanc, Mont; Chamonix, France; God; Mountains; Religion; Hills; Downs (great Britain); Theology


I AM WHEREVER I FIND MYSELF TO BE, by JAMES HARRISON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Only a few hours ago there was a moon
Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim
Subject(s): Nature; November; Paris, France


I HAVE SOME FRIENDS, by ROBERT WILLIAM SERVICE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I have some friends, some worthy friends
Last Line: The finish to my tale.
Subject(s): Friendship; Paris, France


I PAY MY DEBT FOR LAFAYETTE AND ROCHAMBEAU', by EDGAR LEE MASTERS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Eagle, whose fearless
Last Line: Love frees the world!...
Subject(s): France; Freedom; Rockwell, Kiffin Yates (1892-1916); World War I; Liberty; First World War


IF HOPE OF A LAUREL, by RAYMOND DE LA TAILHDE    Poem Text                    
First Line: If hope of a laurel of undiscovered growth
Last Line: With eagle-thunderings rekindled france.
Subject(s): Apollo; France; Laurels; Mythology - Classical


IF YOU HAD A FRIEND, by ROBERT WILLIAM SERVICE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: If you had a friend strong, simple, true
Last Line: You haven't? I wonder . . . What of god?
Subject(s): Bohemians; Friendship; Paris, France


IMPROMPTU ON LOUIS XIV, by JOHN WILMOT    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Lorraine you stole; by fraud you got burgundy
Last Line: Flanders you bought; but, gad! You'll pay for 't one day.
Alternate Author Name(s): Rochester, 2d Earl Of
Subject(s): Louis Xiv, King Of France (1638-1715)


IN A STATION OF THE METRO, by EZRA POUND    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The apparition of these faces in the crowd
Last Line: Petals on a wet, black bough.
Subject(s): Beauty; Imagism; Paris, France; Subways


IN AN OMNIBUS, by ARTHUR WILLIAM SYMONS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Your smile is like a treachery
Last Line: The shadow of water, nought beside?
Subject(s): Beauty; Paris, France


IN ANDELYS: LONG LIVE THE SKIES OF NORMANDY: 22, by PAUL FORT    Poem Text                    
First Line: Let us sing, to end our lay, normandy's azure skies, fairest the king
Last Line: Form, skies, great skies, dappled o'er, rain cider on my head!
Subject(s): Normandy, France; Singing & Singers; Songs


IN ANDELYS: ON THE BANK OF THE SEINE: 5, by PAUL FORT    Poem Text                    
First Line: A heaven confused pours forth these feeble twilight glows. Fairer
Last Line: River slow that lulls great, golden nenuphars.
Subject(s): Dreams; Heaven; Love; Seine (river), France; Nightmares; Paradise


IN ANDELYS: PRAYER TO THE GREAT NORMAN WATER-SPRITES, by PAUL FORT    Poem Text                    
First Line: Great spirits of the seine, in clear light flowing on, pliantly mirror
Last Line: Beneath french apple-trees.
Subject(s): France; Seine (river), France


IN EXCELSIS, 1889, by VICTOR GUSTAVE PLARR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Oh how delectable it is to be
Last Line: More to be magnified, more dread, more sweet.
Subject(s): Bastille (paris); France; Love; Nature; Prisons & Prisoners; Sea; Singing & Singers; Sound; Ocean


IN FRANCE, by FRANCIS LEDWIDGE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The silence of maternal hills
Last Line: And there I wander as I will.
Subject(s): Dreams; France; Nightmares


IN FRANCE, by WILLIAM ALEXANDER PERCY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Let not a foreign earth weigh down my head
Last Line: They will know I am theirs; they will make room.
Subject(s): France; Love; Summer


IN FRANCE, by CLINTON SCOLLARD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Is it well with henri and jean and paul?
Last Line: "well with them all—they are all with god!"
Subject(s): Death; Death - Children; France; Mothers & Sons; Soldiers; Sons; War; Dead, The; Death - Babies


IN FRONT OF THE SEINE, RECALLING THE RIO DE LA PLATA, by SILVINA OCAMPO    Poem Source                    
First Line: No landscape ever fancies or delights me
Last Line: Like when we recognize amid a crowd %some just discovered face that once was ours
Subject(s): Seine (river), France


IN PARIS WITH YOU, by JAMES FENTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Don't talk to me of love. I've had an earful
Subject(s): Love; Paris, France


IN PARIS WITH YOU, by JAMES FENTON    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Don't talk to me of love. I've had an earful
Last Line: Am I embarrassing you? %I'm in paris with you
Subject(s): Love; Paris, France


IN PROVENCE, by DANIEL GERARD HOFFMAN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A sky too hot for photographs
Last Line: Changelessness we'll know
Subject(s): Provence, France


IN THE PLACE DE LA BASTILLE, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: On a clear day in paris, walking where
Last Line: The tragic tumbrils, hark! Go rumbling by!
Subject(s): Bastille (paris); Clouds; Paris, France; Prisons & Prisoners; Storms; Convicts


IN THE WORLD'S HEART; FOUND FRAGMENT, by FREDERIC SAUSER    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: This paris sky, cleaner than winter sky lucid with cold
Last Line: I work on the end of the world
Alternate Author Name(s): Cendrars, Blaise
Subject(s): Paris, France


INFANTRY, by PATRICK REGINALD CHALMERS    Poem Text                    
First Line: In paris town, in paris town - 'twas 'neath an april sky
Last Line: Flic flac, flic flac, to call upon a king.
Subject(s): World War I - France


INSOMNIA, by ROBERT WILLIAM SERVICE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Heigh-ho! To sleep I vainly try
Last Line: Surveying realms of lily light.
Subject(s): Flowers; Insomnia; Lilies; Paris, France; Sleeplessness


INTERMEZZO; PASTORAL: 3. AT DIEPPE: GREY AND GREEN; TO WALTER SICKERT, by ARTHUR WILLIAM SYMONS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The grey-green stretch of sandy grass
Last Line: Or this indifferent moment as it dies.
Subject(s): Dieppe, France; Sickert, Walter Richard (1860-1940)


INVENTION OF EQUAL HOURS, by COLE SWENSEN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Rare they %and approximate who %could tell the hour after
Last Line: You'd wake up in the middle of the night and find you'd been counting in %your sleep
Subject(s): Berry (france); Book Of Hours; Catholic Church - Liturgy; Church Year; Fifteenth Century - Poetry; Manuscripts, Latin (medieval And Modern); Months; Tres Riches Heures Du Duc De Berry


INVOCATION; WRITTEN IN THE GULF OF LYONS DURING A STORM, by WILLIAM SHARP    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Play me a lulling tune, o flute-player of sleep
Last Line: Beyond the last, low, long, oblivious sigh.
Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona
Subject(s): Comfort; Lyons, France; Prayer; Sea; Sleep; Storms; Wind; Ocean


IT IS LATER THAN YOU THINK, by ROBERT WILLIAM SERVICE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Lone amid the cafe's cheer
Last Line: Far, far later than you think.
Subject(s): Paris, France


JANE OF FRANCE, by EMMA CATHERINE (MANLY) EMBURY    Poem Text                    
First Line: Pale, cold and statue-like she sate, and her impeded breath
Last Line: But oh! Should his have been the hand to wield the avenging rod?
Alternate Author Name(s): Ianthe
Subject(s): France


JANUARY 17: ST. ANTONY'S DAY: LES FLAMMES, by COLE SWENSEN    Poem Source                    
First Line: There's a disease that eats up the limbs that feels like ants are eating them'
Last Line: Was hidden (or slid, envelope-style) %into fire or flood, but usually fire
Subject(s): Berry (france); Book Of Hours; Catholic Church - Liturgy; Church Year; Fifteenth Century - Poetry; Manuscripts, Latin (medieval And Modern); Months; Tres Riches Heures Du Duc De Berry


JANUARY 1: ONCE FRAMED, by COLE SWENSEN    Poem Source                    
First Line: The walls break down never were sugar in a storm castle on a
Last Line: The colors running, the men carving meat
Subject(s): Berry (france); Book Of Hours; Catholic Church - Liturgy; Church Year; Fifteenth Century - Poetry; Manuscripts, Latin (medieval And Modern); Months; Tres Riches Heures Du Duc De Berry


JANUARY 1: THE FEAST OF THE NEW YEAR, by COLE SWENSEN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Vows, a fete of, phalanx of, flagrant and sky all written on in snow: hommage
Last Line: Aproche + aproche (scatter the century) %last
Subject(s): Berry (france); Book Of Hours; Catholic Church - Liturgy; Church Year; Fifteenth Century - Poetry; Manuscripts, Latin (medieval And Modern); Months; Tres Riches Heures Du Duc De Berry


JANUARY 28: ST. THOMAS, by COLE SWENSEN    Poem Source                    
First Line: This day a great theophany %internaling an only %shining face
Last Line: Meaning water, or lover of water, or both
Variant Title(s): January 28, 1403: St. Thoma
Subject(s): Berry (france); Book Of Hours; Catholic Church - Liturgy; Church Year; Fifteenth Century - Poetry; Manuscripts, Latin (medieval And Modern); Months; Tres Riches Heures Du Duc De Berry


JANUARY 29, 1408: THE GREAT FLOOD OF, by COLE SWENSEN    Poem Source                    
First Line: To a life of moving water %and a watermark on the water
Last Line: A cup and saucer spin for a moment on the surface
Subject(s): Berry (france); Book Of Hours; Catholic Church - Liturgy; Church Year; Fifteenth Century - Poetry; Manuscripts, Latin (medieval And Modern); Months; Tres Riches Heures Du Duc De Berry


JANUARY 3: THE FEAST OF ST. GENEVIEVE; PATRON SAINT OF PARIS; 422-500, by COLE SWENSEN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Blew the candle out no devil knew not %the name stopped
Last Line: Sewn with the blindman's stitch
Subject(s): Berry (france); Book Of Hours; Catholic Church - Liturgy; Church Year; Fifteenth Century - Poetry; Manuscripts, Latin (medieval And Modern); Months; Tres Riches Heures Du Duc De Berry


JANUARY 5/5, by COLE SWENSEN    Poem Source                    
First Line: =one. Need say we what was that you said it shrank %to a point
Last Line: Year. %fury. %snow
Subject(s): Berry (france); Book Of Hours; Catholic Church - Liturgy; Church Year; Fifteenth Century - Poetry; Manuscripts, Latin (medieval And Modern); Months; Tres Riches Heures Du Duc De Berry


JANUARY 6, 1400: THE FOUNDING OF LA COUR AMOUREUSE...., by COLE SWENSEN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Cold, %bored, %and underfoot, thin %ice (glance
Last Line: Other of unconscionable red, who unasked, who, undeterred, said %yes
Subject(s): Berry (france); Book Of Hours; Catholic Church - Liturgy; Church Year; Fifteenth Century - Poetry; Manuscripts, Latin (medieval And Modern); Months; Tres Riches Heures Du Duc De Berry


JANUARY 6: ST. MATTHEW'S DAY, by COLE SWENSEN    Poem Source                    
First Line: As the magi stood before herod and said %further home
Last Line: (and not a mark on him) stood %calmly eating the burning grass
Subject(s): Berry (france); Book Of Hours; Catholic Church - Liturgy; Church Year; Fifteenth Century - Poetry; Manuscripts, Latin (medieval And Modern); Months; Tres Riches Heures Du Duc De Berry


JANUARY IN PARIS, by BILLY COLLINS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis         Recitation     Poet's Biography
First Line: That winter I had nothing to do
Subject(s): Paris, France


JEANNE D'ARC, by HENRY VAN DYKE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The land was broken in despair
Last Line: And give a heart to france!
Alternate Author Name(s): Civis Americanus
Subject(s): France; Joan Of Arc (1412-1431); War


JIM, by ROBERT WILLIAM SERVICE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Never knew jim, did you? Our boy jim?
Last Line: Aren't we, jim?
Subject(s): Paris, France; Soldiers


JOACHIM, by PAUL FORT    Poem Text                    
First Line: The night glides, chill and murk, through paris. In its shades two
Last Line: Steeped in tears, steeped in tears. . . . O those little broken cries!
Subject(s): Life; Night; Paris, France; Bedtime


JOAN OF ARC IN RHEIMS, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: That was a joyous day in rheims of old
Last Line: The crown of glory unto woman's brow.
Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea
Subject(s): Joan Of Arc (1412-1431); Rheims, France; Women


JOAN OF ARC: BOOK 10, by ROBERT SOUTHEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Thus to the martyrs in their country's cause
Last Line: Give to the arms of freedom such success.
Variant Title(s): The Crowning Of The King
Subject(s): Coronations; Creative Ability; England; Faith; France; Freedom; God; Heroism; Joan Of Arc (1412-1431); Missions & Missionaries; Victory; War; Inspiration; Creativity; English; Belief; Creed; Liberty; Heroes; Heroines


JOAN OF ARC: BOOK 2, by ROBERT SOUTHEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: And now, beneath the horizon westering slow
Last Line: And they betook them to their homely rest.
Subject(s): France; Heroism; Joan Of Arc (1412-1431); Missions & Missionaries; Travel; War; Heroes; Heroines; Journeys; Trips


JOAN OF ARC: BOOK 3, by ROBERT SOUTHEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Fair dawn'd the morning, and the early sun
Last Line: "we ratify thy mission. Go in peace."
Subject(s): Duty; Faith; France; Heroism; Joan Of Arc (1412-1431); Missions & Missionaries; Religion; Belief; Creed; Heroes; Heroines; Theology


JOAN OF ARC: BOOK 4, by ROBERT SOUTHEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The feast was spread, the sparkling bowl went round
Last Line: "we march to rescue orleans from the foe."
Subject(s): Duty; France; Heroism; Joan Of Arc (1412-1431); Love; Man-woman Relationships; Missions & Missionaries; Obedience; War; Heroes; Heroines; Male-female Relations


JOAN OF ARC: BOOK 5, by ROBERT SOUTHEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Scarce had the earliest ray from chinon's towers
Last Line: So saying, conrade from the tent went forth.
Variant Title(s): The Maid Of Orleans Girding For Battle
Subject(s): France; Heroism; History; Joan Of Arc (1412-1431); Missions & Missionaries; Orleans, France; War; Heroes; Heroines; Historians


JOAN OF ARC: BOOK 6, by ROBERT SOUTHEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The night was calm, and many a moving cloud
Last Line: Renewing the remembrance of the storm.
Subject(s): France; Heroism; History; Joan Of Arc (1412-1431); Missions & Missionaries; Orleans, France; Victory; War; Heroes; Heroines; Historians


JOAN OF ARC: BOOK 7, by ROBERT SOUTHEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Strong were the english forts, by daily toil
Last Line: Betaking them, for now the night drew on.
Subject(s): England; Faith; France; Heroism; History; Joan Of Arc (1412-1431); Missions & Missionaries; Religion; Victory; War; English; Belief; Creed; Heroes; Heroines; Historians; Theology


JOAN OF ARC: BOOK 8, by ROBERT SOUTHEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Now was the noon of night; and all was still
Last Line: The shattered fragments of the midnight wreck.
Subject(s): England; Faith; France; Heroism; Joan Of Arc (1412-1431); Missions & Missionaries; Religion; Victory; War; English; Belief; Creed; Heroes; Heroines; Theology


JOAN OF ARC: BOOK 9, by ROBERT SOUTHEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Far through the shadowy sky the ascending flames
Last Line: "the thunder—she shall blast her despot foes."
Subject(s): Death; England; Faith; France; Funerals; God; Heroism; Joan Of Arc (1412-1431); Missions & Missionaries; Victory; War; Dead, The; English; Belief; Creed; Burials; Heroes; Heroines


JOHN DUKE OF MARLBOROUGH, by MARY WORTLEY MONTAGU    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: When the proud frenchman's strong rapacious hand
Last Line: In private hours by all who knew him lov'd.
Alternate Author Name(s): Montagu, Mary Wortley; Pierrepont, Mary
Subject(s): Churchill, John (1650-1722); Louis Xiv, King Of France (1638-1715); Marlborough, 1st Duke Of


JULOT THE APACHE, by ROBERT WILLIAM SERVICE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: You've heard of julot the apache, and gigolette, him mome
Last Line: "say! -- it's the first communion of that little girl of mine."
Subject(s): Apache Indians; Native Americans; Paris, France; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America


JULY 1: FIELD GEOMETRY, by COLE SWENSEN    Poem Source                    
First Line: All that interlock is fawn all that water joins
Last Line: Beyond, say, to the shoulder of the average man
Subject(s): Berry (france); Book Of Hours; Catholic Church - Liturgy; Church Year; Fifteenth Century - Poetry; Manuscripts, Latin (medieval And Modern); Months; Tres Riches Heures Du Duc De Berry


JULY 2, 1421: A RIVER OF BLOOD HAS FLOWED THREE DAYS INTO THE SEINE, by COLE SWENSEN    Poem Source                    
First Line: In one this week %in this now year %of all our after
Last Line: And all their arms %walking on water to victory, singing
Subject(s): Berry (france); Book Of Hours; Catholic Church - Liturgy; Church Year; Fifteenth Century - Poetry; Manuscripts, Latin (medieval And Modern); Months; Tres Riches Heures Du Duc De Berry


JULY 3, 1418: THE MIRACLE OF CRIME, by COLE SWENSEN    Poem Source                    
First Line: When, coming home drunk, a swiss soldier stabbed the stone statue of the virgin
Last Line: A dark lamp, a torch of burning gold, who'd never bled before %him alive
Subject(s): Berry (france); Book Of Hours; Catholic Church - Liturgy; Church Year; Fifteenth Century - Poetry; Manuscripts, Latin (medieval And Modern); Months; Tres Riches Heures Du Duc De Berry


JULY 5, 1421: IN WHICH THE PLIGHT, by COLE SWENSEN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Of starving wolves
Last Line: They are swimming up the freezing river in droves
Subject(s): Berry (france); Book Of Hours; Catholic Church - Liturgy; Church Year; Fifteenth Century - Poetry; Manuscripts, Latin (medieval And Modern); Months; Tres Riches Heures Du Duc De Berry


JULY: COQUELICOT, by COLE SWENSEN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Folio sept: verso. So it goes. There will be. All field entire they. The
Last Line: Though now we say azura, from which %the blue is made
Subject(s): Berry (france); Book Of Hours; Catholic Church - Liturgy; Church Year; Fifteenth Century - Poetry; Manuscripts, Latin (medieval And Modern); Months; Tres Riches Heures Du Duc De Berry


JUNE 15, 1416: THE DEATH OF JEAN, DUC DE BERRY, by COLE SWENSEN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Who had fallen in love in prison (1363)- the swan once wounded
Last Line: Or it's the same one passing (enormous) and in between %the sky
Subject(s): Berry (france); Book Of Hours; Catholic Church - Liturgy; Church Year; Fifteenth Century - Poetry; Manuscripts, Latin (medieval And Modern); Months; Tres Riches Heures Du Duc De Berry


JUNE 1: REAPING, by COLE SWENSEN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Sickle one, scythe two and sweep and sheaf and sign
Last Line: (list everything you could carry %away in a boat)
Subject(s): Berry (france); Book Of Hours; Catholic Church - Liturgy; Church Year; Fifteenth Century - Poetry; Manuscripts, Latin (medieval And Modern); Months; Tres Riches Heures Du Duc De Berry


JUNE 24: THE LONG DAY, by COLE SWENSEN    Poem Source                    
First Line: The day of jean l'amour. The 'saint-john'-all summer starts here. Lit a fire
Last Line: Our word 'singer.' now sing I said louder. I said soon
Subject(s): Berry (france); Book Of Hours; Catholic Church - Liturgy; Church Year; Fifteenth Century - Poetry; Manuscripts, Latin (medieval And Modern); Months; Tres Riches Heures Du Duc De Berry


KEARSARGE AND ALABAMA, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: "it was early sunday morning, in the year of sixty-four"
Last Line: "hoist up the flag, and long may it waive, / god bless america, the home of the brave!"
Subject(s): "alabama (ship);american Civil War;cherbourg, France;kearsarge (ship);sea Battles;u.s. - History;winslow, John Ancrum (1811-1873);" Naval Warfare


KELLY OF THE LEGION, by ROBERT WILLIAM SERVICE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Now kelly was no fighter
Last Line: Tis kelly leads the way.
Subject(s): Paris, France; Soldiers; War


KING EDWARD THE THIRD, by WILLIAM BLAKE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: O thou, to whose fury the nations are
Last Line: "fair albion's shore, and all her families."
Subject(s): Bible; Edward Iii, King Of England (1312-1377); Freedom; Great Britain - Wars With France; Mythology; Liberty


KING HENRY V, SELS., by WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Subject(s): Agincourt, Battle Of (1415); Courage; Harfleur, France, Battle Of; History; War


KNOW YOU THE RIVER NEAR TO GREZ, by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Go on from grace to grace
Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour
Subject(s): Rivers; Love; Grez, France


L'ESCARGOT D'OR, by ROBERT WILLIAM SERVICE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: O tavern of the golden snail!
Last Line: O tavern of the golden snail!
Subject(s): Gold; Paris, France; Snails


LA BAGAREDE, by GALWAY KINNELL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I take the dogs into
Subject(s): Constellations; France


LA BAGAREDE, by GALWAY KINNELL    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I take the dogs into
Last Line: At having love who dies - is shining
Subject(s): Constellations; France


LA LANGUE DES TROUBADOURS, by TIMOTHY MURPHY    Poem Source                    
First Line: Benvengut,' says a sign
Last Line: Here they are heard no more. %adieu, adieu provence
Subject(s): Farm Life; Homosexuality; Provence, France


LA TOUTE FRANCE, by STEPHEN BEAL    Poem Source                    
First Line: And so it came to pass that the french were dismissed from france
Last Line: A celebration of civility
Subject(s): France


LA VIE EN ROSE, by KENNETH REXROTH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Fog fills the little square
Last Line: Around and around
Subject(s): France; Waiting


LA VIE EN ROSE, by KENNETH REXROTH    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Fog fills the little square
Last Line: Around and around
Subject(s): France; Waiting


LAFAYETTE, by WILLIAM BLAKE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Let the brothels of paris be opened
Last Line: And a great many suckers grow all around
Subject(s): Bible; Lafayette, Marie Joseph, Marquis De; Mythology; Paris, France


LAPSE OF TIME AND A WORD OF EXPLANATIN, by ROBERT WILLIAM SERVICE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Four years have passed and it is winter again
Subject(s): Paris, France


LATE ELEGY: NORMANDY BEACH, by NILS CLAUSSON    Poem Source                    
First Line: The killers are killed, their violent rinds
Last Line: Still moving back and forth, the day's soft sea
Subject(s): Normandy, France


LE PERE-LACHAISE, by CAROL ANN DUFFY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Along the ruined avenues the long-gone lie
Last Line: Two young men embrace near piaf's tomb
Subject(s): France


LE PERE-LACHAISE, by CAROL ANN DUFFY    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Along the ruined avenues the long-gone lie
Last Line: Two men embrace near piaf's tomb
Subject(s): France


LE SACRE-COEUR, by CHARLOTTE MEW    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: It is dark up here on the heights
Subject(s): Paris, France; Travel


LEACHED, by FRANCES SAWYER    Poem Text                    
First Line: In france they martyred one progenitor
Last Line: Heroes set forth in a menagerie.
Subject(s): Capital Punishment; England; France; Martyrs; Hanging; Executions; Death Penalty; English


LEAVE, O LEAVE THEM WHERE THEY FELL, by EDNA DEAN PROCTOR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: From their far hesperides
Last Line: Leave, o leave them where they fell!
Alternate Author Name(s): Dean
Subject(s): France; Soldiers; United States; War; America


LEAVING L'ATELIER - AIX-EN-PROVENCE, by KENNETH REXROTH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Bare trees / smoky lavender twigs
Last Line: Under the morning moon
Subject(s): Aix, France; Farewell


LES CHATIMENTS: 1. TO PASSIVE OBEDIENCE, by VICTOR GUSTAVE PLARR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: O sons of the year two! Wars waking epic chords!
Last Line: With finger towards the skies.
Subject(s): France; French Revolution (1789); Patriotism; Soldiers; War


LES GRAND ALLIES, by CHARLES E. WATERMAN    Poem Text                    
First Line: You want to know how I came t' be
Last Line: But amerique for les grand allies.
Subject(s): France


LES GRANDS MUTILES, by ROBERT WILLIAM SERVICE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I saw three wounded of the war
Last Line: And this is how my fancies run.
Subject(s): Paris, France


LES NOYADES, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Whatever a man of the sons of men
Last Line: To burn for ever in burning hell
Subject(s): Death; France; Judgments; Love; Dead, The


LET US FORGET, by K. M.    Poem Text                    
First Line: The shore once won, who counts the waves?
Last Line: Let us forget.
Subject(s): France; Jews; Judaism


LETTER TO YOUKI, by ROBERT DESNOS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
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, by ROBERT DESNOS    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
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


LIBERTE, EGALITE, FRATERNITE, by FLORENCE CONVERSE    Poem Source                    
First Line: Let us not fear for the creative word
Last Line: Let us not fear for the creative word
Subject(s): France; Freedom; World War Ii


LIGHT, by MARJORIE AGOSIN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Returning to the south of france
Last Line: I offer them all my belongings %which are my hands
Subject(s): Colors; France; Happiness; Paintings And Painters


LIMERICK, by EDWARD LEAR    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: There was an old lady of france
Last Line: Which grieved that old lady of france
Subject(s): France; Old Age


LINES FROM DUNKIRK TO BE LET, by JONATHAN SWIFT    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Old lewis thus the terms of peace to burnish
Subject(s): Dunkirk, France


LITANY FOR D-DAY: 1944, by HENRY MORTON ROBINSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Epaulettes of farragut, / powder-horn of boone
Last Line: Not to be safe, but free.
Variant Title(s): Litany For A New A.e.f.
Subject(s): D Day (june 6, 1944); Normandy (france), Invasion Of


LITTLE BOATS OF BRITAIN (A BALLAD OF DUNKIRK), by SARA CARSLEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: On many a lazy river, in many a sparkling bay
Subject(s): Dunkirk, France


LO, WHERE HAUSSMANN COMES, SEE WHERE HE COMES, by KENNETH KOCH    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Subject(s): Haussmann, Georges-eugene (1809-1891); Paris, France; Architecture & Architects


LOOKING TOWARDS THE LAND OF FRANCE, by CHARLES D'ORLEANS    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: As upon france, with longing eagerness
Last Line: France to behold once more, I love so well.
Alternate Author Name(s): D'orleans, Duc; Orleans, Charles Of
Subject(s): France


LOUIS XV, by JOHN STERLING (1806-1844)    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The king with all his kingly train
Last Line: How came it that the peasants died.
Subject(s): France; French Revolution (1789); Louis Xv, King Of France (1710-1774)


LOUIS XV, by JOHN WILSON (1785-1854)    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The king with all the kingly train had left his pompadour behind
Last Line: Then spurred to ask of pompadour, how came it that the peasants died.
Alternate Author Name(s): North, Christopher
Subject(s): French Revolution (1789); Louis Xv, King Of France (1710-1774)


LOUVAIN, by OLIVER BROOK HERFORD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Bleeding and torn, ravished with sword and flame
Last Line: Shrived by the sacred sorrow of louvain.
Subject(s): Betrayal; Faith; France; Future Life; God; Martyrs; Belief; Creed; Retribution; Eternity; After Life


LUCILLE, by ROBERT WILLIAM SERVICE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Of course you've heard of the nancy lee, and how she sailed away
Last Line: What she held to me was, ah yes! A flea, but . . . It wasn't my lucille.
Subject(s): Girls; Paris, France


MA DAME, MA DOUCE PROVENCE, by PEIRE VIDAL    Poem Source                    
First Line: To breath the air %of fair provence
Last Line: Witless the whiles!
Subject(s): Provence, France


MA PROVENCE, by KENNETH KOCH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: En ma provence le ble est toujours vert
Subject(s): Provence, France


MA PROVENCE, by KENNETH KOCH    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: En ma provence le ble est toujours vert
Last Line: She writes it out in enervating prose %'in my provence, my rose.'
Subject(s): Provence, France


MACHINE DESIGNS, by COLE SWENSEN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Still thin, though straight, the between
Last Line: And you hear the shift %as a short 'I'-I.E., sill, lip, shipping
Subject(s): Berry (france); Book Of Hours; Catholic Church - Liturgy; Church Year; Fifteenth Century - Poetry; Manuscripts, Latin (medieval And Modern); Months; Tres Riches Heures Du Duc De Berry


MAN OF THE CLOTH, by DICK ALLEN    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Right now, he thinks, right now a woman in paris
Last Line: And makes his way past lilacs toward the church
Subject(s): Paris, France


MARCH 1432, by COLE SWENSEN    Poem Source                    
First Line: So bitterly froze and the floodwaters reached
Last Line: Flood after freeze and flood again they are talking peace between kings
Subject(s): Berry (france); Book Of Hours; Catholic Church - Liturgy; Church Year; Fifteenth Century - Poetry; Manuscripts, Latin (medieval And Modern); Months; Tres Riches Heures Du Duc De Berry


MARCH 1: SPRING AGRICULTURE, by COLE SWENSEN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Thus we find triads: dimension, form, and order %substance, nature, power
Last Line: Something (we can't see what) (sheaf?) (shearing?) holding (soft) %against himself
Subject(s): Berry (france); Book Of Hours; Catholic Church - Liturgy; Church Year; Fifteenth Century - Poetry; Manuscripts, Latin (medieval And Modern); Months; Tres Riches Heures Du Duc De Berry


MARCH 25, 1472/75: THE ANNUNCIATION, LEONARDO DA VINCI, by COLE SWENSEN    Poem Source                    
First Line: As in mid as in air as if there could %be enough
Last Line: Empty space %to %emptiness
Subject(s): Berry (france); Book Of Hours; Catholic Church - Liturgy; Church Year; Fifteenth Century - Poetry; Manuscripts, Latin (medieval And Modern); Months; Tres Riches Heures Du Duc De Berry


MARCH 25: THE ANNUNCIATION, by COLE SWENSEN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Mary of the turning %who turns around and stammers
Last Line: What am I doing? And what am I incapable of doing?
Subject(s): Berry (france); Book Of Hours; Catholic Church - Liturgy; Church Year; Fifteenth Century - Poetry; Manuscripts, Latin (medieval And Modern); Months; Tres Riches Heures Du Duc De Berry


MARCH 8 (FEAST DAY OF JOHN OF GOD, PATRON SAINT OF PRINTERS)......., by COLE SWENSEN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Moves the word is good of god what moving
Last Line: (as god is to every %clockwork aviary)
Subject(s): Berry (france); Book Of Hours; Catholic Church - Liturgy; Church Year; Fifteenth Century - Poetry; Manuscripts, Latin (medieval And Modern); Months; Tres Riches Heures Du Duc De Berry


MARCH OF TIME,' SUMMER, 1940, by MICHAEL CHARLES ALSTON MOTT    Poem Source                    
First Line: Coming to strut with the conquerers
Last Line: Grandeur of emptiness %might be a fly
Subject(s): France; Summer


MARCH: NOCTURNE, by COLE SWENSEN    Poem Source                    
First Line: And as are the nocturnes, three
Last Line: Gates shall enter in %shall and
Subject(s): Berry (france); Book Of Hours; Catholic Church - Liturgy; Church Year; Fifteenth Century - Poetry; Manuscripts, Latin (medieval And Modern); Months; Tres Riches Heures Du Duc De Berry


MARCH: THE THIRD LESSON: TO BE SAID AT NIGHT OR UPON RISING, by COLE SWENSEN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Cedar of libanus, the exalted %(as was I, oh l., a witness) a cypress
Last Line: And the cypress and the olive and the scar above the eye
Subject(s): Berry (france); Book Of Hours; Catholic Church - Liturgy; Church Year; Fifteenth Century - Poetry; Manuscripts, Latin (medieval And Modern); Months; Tres Riches Heures Du Duc De Berry


MARGUERITE DE ROBERVAL, by ISABEL ECCLESTONE MACKAY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: O the long days and nights! The days that bring
Last Line: With early flowers clustering here and there!
Subject(s): Adventure And Adventurers; France; Love Affairs; Poetry & Poets; Sea Voyages


MARIE ANTOINETTE'S LAMENTATION, IN HER PRISON OF THE TEMPLE, by MARY DARBY ROBINSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: When on my bosom evening's ruby light
Last Line: And snatch one victim from the last despair?
Subject(s): French Revolution (1789); Marie Antoinette, Queen Of France


MARIE ANTOINETTIE; OCTOBER 16, 1893, by LEWIS MORRIS (1833-1907)    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A hundred years ago to-day
Last Line: The silent lips, the faded hair.
Subject(s): Marie Antoinette, Queen Of France


MARKET, by MARJORIE AGOSIN    Poem Source                    
First Line: I have come to the south of france to return
Last Line: Demented mists %that I am painting
Subject(s): Forests; France; Insomnia; Markets


MARKET DAY, by LINDA PASTAN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: We have travelled all this way
Subject(s): Markets; France; Supermarkets


MAY 1, I A.M.: LES REVENANTS, by COLE SWENSEN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Old and on / certain nights of the walpurgis I saw them
Last Line: (the precision) there %by choice
Subject(s): Berry (france); Book Of Hours; Catholic Church - Liturgy; Church Year; Fifteenth Century - Poetry; Manuscripts, Latin (medieval And Modern); Months; Tres Riches Heures Du Duc De Berry


MAY 19, 1435: THE GREAT FREEZE, by COLE SWENSEN    Poem Source                    
First Line: It is reported he walked out
Last Line: The hundred and forty you could see right through %the crystal trees
Subject(s): Berry (france); Book Of Hours; Catholic Church - Liturgy; Church Year; Fifteenth Century - Poetry; Manuscripts, Latin (medieval And Modern); Months; Tres Riches Heures Du Duc De Berry


MAY 1: BROAD DAY, by COLE SWENSEN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Note the curves we pause and forth %and he turns %and she looks
Last Line: And pointed and smiled, but I couldn't hear what he said
Subject(s): Berry (france); Book Of Hours; Catholic Church - Liturgy; Church Year; Fifteenth Century - Poetry; Manuscripts, Latin (medieval And Modern); Months; Tres Riches Heures Du Duc De Berry


MAY 21, 1420: SIGNING THE TREATY OF TROYES, by COLE SWENSEN    Poem Source                    
First Line: And thus we give up: this and this and
Last Line: You get a great view from here; it just isn't yours anymore
Subject(s): Berry (france); Book Of Hours; Catholic Church - Liturgy; Church Year; Fifteenth Century - Poetry; Manuscripts, Latin (medieval And Modern); Months; Tres Riches Heures Du Duc De Berry


MAY 30, 1427: JOAN-NOT-YET-SAINT WITH SHEEP, by COLE SWENSEN    Poem Source                    
First Line: When they eat from your hand it's said that you're saved
Last Line: And up about half an inch. What %will you give
Subject(s): Berry (france); Book Of Hours; Catholic Church - Liturgy; Church Year; Fifteenth Century - Poetry; Manuscripts, Latin (medieval And Modern); Months; Tres Riches Heures Du Duc De Berry


MAY 5: EARTH, AIR, FIRE, WATER, AND ETHER, by COLE SWENSEN    Poem Source                    
First Line: As is the number %of man: four limbs and a heart, star-shaped if the star
Last Line: A hand (what was held) (hold this) (my most urgent most and %agile wound)
Subject(s): Berry (france); Book Of Hours; Catholic Church - Liturgy; Church Year; Fifteenth Century - Poetry; Manuscripts, Latin (medieval And Modern); Months; Tres Riches Heures Du Duc De Berry


MAY 9: TRANSLATION DAY OF SAINT NICHOLAS OF MYRA, PATRON SAINT OF..., by COLE SWENSEN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Called city of one hundred bell-towers (not one hundred bells)
Last Line: (choose from among) %(my lady, try on this one)
Subject(s): Berry (france); Book Of Hours; Catholic Church - Liturgy; Church Year; Fifteenth Century - Poetry; Manuscripts, Latin (medieval And Modern); Months; Tres Riches Heures Du Duc De Berry


MEMORY OF THE SEINE, by KWON ILSONG    Poem Source                    
First Line: Autumn was a wharf
Last Line: The collapse of autumn is in fact %a relation between birth and death
Subject(s): Memory; Seine (river), France


MEN WHO MARCH AWAY (2), by THOMAS HARDY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: We be the king's men, hale and hearty
Last Line: Right fol-lol!
Subject(s): Great Britain - Wars With France; Napoleon I (1769-1821)


MICHAEL, by ROBERT WILLIAM SERVICE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: There's something in your face, michael, I've seen it all the day
Last Line: "then, then we'll end that stupid crime, that devil's madness -- war."
Subject(s): Paris, France; War


MONSIEUR MOREAU, by MARILYN KALLET    Poem Source                    
First Line: Monsieur moreau must be dead by now
Last Line: On the belle avenue du parc montsouris
Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish - Beginnings; Jewish Families; Paris, France


MONT BLANC; LINES WRITTEN IN THE VALE OF CHAMOUNI, by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The everlasting universe of things
Last Line: Silence and solitude were vacancy?
Subject(s): Alps; Chamonix, France; Mountains; Sleep; Travel; Hills; Downs (great Britain); Journeys; Trips


MOON SONG, by ROBERT WILLIAM SERVICE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A child saw in the morning skies
Last Line: Old moon, when we are underground.
Subject(s): Moon; Paris, France


MOUNTAIN VILLAGE IN SOUTHERN FRANCE, by CLARENCE MAJOR    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Snow on a line of flat rooftops beneath a sky of driven clouds
Last Line: Like bugs beneath doormats in rainy weather
Subject(s): Fields; France; Solitude; Southern Hemisphere


MY BOOK, by ROBERT WILLIAM SERVICE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Before I drink myself to death
Last Line: A right, a glory and a song.
Subject(s): Books; Paris, France; Writing & Writers; Reading


MY GARRET, by ROBERT WILLIAM SERVICE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Here is my garret up five flights of stairs
Last Line: If wealth be told in terms of happiness.
Subject(s): Canada; Paris, France; Canadians


MY HOUR, by ROBERT WILLIAM SERVICE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Day after day behold me plying
Last Line: With tender thoughts of praise and peace.
Subject(s): Paris, France; Peace


MY MASTERPIECE, by ROBERT WILLIAM SERVICE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: It's slim and trim and bound in blue
Last Line: That little book I never wrote.
Subject(s): Books; Paris, France; Writing & Writers; Reading


MY NEIGHBORS: INTRODUCTORY POEM, by ROBERT WILLIAM SERVICE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: To rest my fagged brain now and then
Last Line: Maybe they'll find him dead to-morrow.
Subject(s): Neighbors; Paris, France


MY PARENTS IN FRANCE, by JIM DANIELS    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The sun's cracking above the hill behind the house
Last Line: To say that now. Just between us, I whisper, though I know %the stones are listening
Subject(s): France; Parents


MY SWEET LITTLE LOUIS XI, by PAUL FORT    Poem Text                    
First Line: By easy stages, my sweet little louis xi from nantes to his little
Last Line: To tickle the dame.
Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; France; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens


NAPOLEON, by GAMALIEL BRADFORD    Poem Text                    
First Line: For france and liberty he set apart
Last Line: On a lone island 'mid the atlantic waves.
Subject(s): Napoleon I (1769-1821); World War I - France


NAPOLEON, by GEORGE MEREDITH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Cannon his name, / cannon his voice, he came
Last Line: Hull down, with masts against the western hues.
Subject(s): France; Napoleon I (1769-1821); Napoleonic Wars


NAPOLEON AND THE BRITISH [OR ENGLISH] SAILOR [BOY], by THOMAS CAMPBELL    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I love contemplating, apart
Last Line: Of bonaparte.
Variant Title(s): Soldier And Sailor
Subject(s): France; Napoleon I (1769-1821)


NAPOLEON'S TOMB, by DANA BURNET    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Through the great doors, where paris flowed.
Last Line: Beneath the silent, cold, anonymous stars.
Subject(s): Napoleon I (1769-1821); World War I - France


NIGHT WATCHMAN OF PONT-AU-CHANGE, by ROBERT DESNOS    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
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


NO GROUNDS FOR PROSECUTION, by ANDRE BRETON    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Art of days art of nights
Last Line: Never freedom but for freedom
Subject(s): Paris, France


NO GROUNDS FOR PROSECUTION, by ANDRE BRETON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Art of days art of nights
Last Line: Never freedom but for freedom
Subject(s): Paris, France


NOCTAMBULE, by ROBERT WILLIAM SERVICE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Zut! It's two o'clock
Last Line: Mad old world, good morning.
Subject(s): Insomnia; Paris, France; Sleepwalking; Sleeplessness


NOCTURNE: IN PROVENCE, by RICHARD HOVEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The blue night, like an angel, came into the room
Last Line: A saintly soul lay bare its innocence to god.
Subject(s): Provence, France


NORMAN PEASANTS, by MARTHA HALE SHACKFORD    Poem Text                    
First Line: Those workers in the fields and heat
Last Line: To meet the fading stars, each day.
Subject(s): Normandy, France; Peasantry; Wellesley College


NORMANDY BEACH, by MILLER WILLIAMS    Poem Source     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: The waves on the normandy coast jump heavily toward us
Last Line: Lonely companion, %there's something I have to tell you but I don't know what
Subject(s): D Day (june 6, 1944); Normandy, France; World War Ii


NOVEMBER 11, 1422: THE FUNERAL OF CHARLES THE SIXTH, THE MAD, AND ..., by COLE SWENSEN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Le visage decouvert %and the naked face
Last Line: Drunk the well and for once in our lives could ask for more
Subject(s): Berry (france); Book Of Hours; Catholic Church - Liturgy; Church Year; Fifteenth Century - Poetry; Manuscripts, Latin (medieval And Modern); Months; Tres Riches Heures Du Duc De Berry


NOVEMBER 1485: JEAN COLOMBE HANDS THE FINISHED MANUSCRIPT TO ..., by COLE SWENSEN    Poem Source                    
First Line: And from there four hundred years %hidden in air
Last Line: Was later found somewhere else
Subject(s): Berry (france); Book Of Hours; Catholic Church - Liturgy; Church Year; Fifteenth Century - Poetry; Manuscripts, Latin (medieval And Modern); Months; Tres Riches Heures Du Duc De Berry


NOVEMBER 1: ALL SAINTS' DAY, by COLE SWENSEN    Poem Source                    
First Line: St. (breathe) known by his (guess) st. (yes) known by
Last Line: In antonella's st. Jerome, he is seated in a room whose architecture emulates %the chambers of the h
Subject(s): Berry (france); Book Of Hours; Catholic Church - Liturgy; Church Year; Fifteenth Century - Poetry; Manuscripts, Latin (medieval And Modern); Months; Tres Riches Heures Du Duc De Berry


NOVEMBER 23, 1407: THE MURDER OF LOUIS D'ORLEANS IN THE RUE ...., by COLE SWENSEN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Murdered: one brother %of a mad king of
Last Line: On your knees you %surrounded him and beat him to death
Subject(s): Berry (france); Book Of Hours; Catholic Church - Liturgy; Church Year; Fifteenth Century - Poetry; Manuscripts, Latin (medieval And Modern); Months; Tres Riches Heures Du Duc De Berry


NOVEMBER 25: ST. CATHERINE'S DAY, by COLE SWENSEN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Wheels! (see page yeah, sure first invented in and
Last Line: Water %my homuncular bead
Subject(s): Berry (france); Book Of Hours; Catholic Church - Liturgy; Church Year; Fifteenth Century - Poetry; Manuscripts, Latin (medieval And Modern); Months; Tres Riches Heures Du Duc De Berry


NOVEMBER 2: ALL SOULS' DAY, by COLE SWENSEN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Walk again have passed this gate at night and
Last Line: And so on is the on. Walking is a holy thing; it sieves the sun
Subject(s): Berry (france); Book Of Hours; Catholic Church - Liturgy; Church Year; Fifteenth Century - Poetry; Manuscripts, Latin (medieval And Modern); Months; Tres Riches Heures Du Duc De Berry


NOVEMBER 9, 1414: MARGERY KEMPE MARRIES GOD, by COLE SWENSEN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Who is they we %say (they said) %tear
Last Line: The way it curves to fit the most intricate of them
Subject(s): Berry (france); Book Of Hours; Catholic Church - Liturgy; Church Year; Fifteenth Century - Poetry; Manuscripts, Latin (medieval And Modern); Months; Tres Riches Heures Du Duc De Berry


NOW THE STARLIT MOONLESS SPRING, by KENNETH REXROTH    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: After they have had their coffee
Subject(s): California; Love; Paris, France; Spring


O GLORIOUS FRANCE, by EDGAR LEE MASTERS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: You have become a forge of snow white fire
Last Line: Grown weary cries enough!
Subject(s): World War I - France


OBSERVE THE LARK, by KATIE LOUCHHEIM    Poem Source                    
First Line: Hedgerows in provence, cathedrals
Subject(s): Provence, France


OCTOBER 1, 1445, by COLE SWENSEN    Poem Source                    
First Line: How to paint a filament designed to be invisible
Last Line: For every man standing %on the edge of a river is a part of it
Subject(s): Berry (france); Book Of Hours; Catholic Church - Liturgy; Church Year; Fifteenth Century - Poetry; Manuscripts, Latin (medieval And Modern); Months; Tres Riches Heures Du Duc De Berry


OCTOBER 12, 1492: THE DEATH OF PIERO DELLA FRANCESCA AND THE ERROR..., by COLE SWENSEN    Poem Source                    
First Line: A child %the size of the %palm of the
Last Line: From on earth %looks safe
Subject(s): Berry (france); Book Of Hours; Catholic Church - Liturgy; Church Year; Fifteenth Century - Poetry; Manuscripts, Latin (medieval And Modern); Months; Tres Riches Heures Du Duc De Berry


OCTOBER 15, 1415: GUILD INITIATION: PAOLO UCCELLO EXAMINES THE SKY, by COLE SWENSEN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Vasari swears %the birds were there, are %still
Last Line: It's that now %the hunted sail for a minute
Subject(s): Berry (france); Book Of Hours; Catholic Church - Liturgy; Church Year; Fifteenth Century - Poetry; Manuscripts, Latin (medieval And Modern); Months; Tres Riches Heures Du Duc De Berry


OCTOBER 25, 1415: THE BATTLE OF AGINCOURT, by COLE SWENSEN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Having promised to cut three fingers
Last Line: Soft trees, %ten thousand men
Subject(s): Berry (france); Book Of Hours; Catholic Church - Liturgy; Church Year; Fifteenth Century - Poetry; Manuscripts, Latin (medieval And Modern); Months; Tres Riches Heures Du Duc De Berry


OCTOBER 28, 1449: THE TRANSLATION OF THE RELICS OF ST. JEAN...., by COLE SWENSEN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Is over %that has ever been told
Last Line: They come back at all? %will be loved
Subject(s): Berry (france); Book Of Hours; Catholic Church - Liturgy; Church Year; Fifteenth Century - Poetry; Manuscripts, Latin (medieval And Modern); Months; Tres Riches Heures Du Duc De Berry


OCTOBER 4, 1451: NICHOLAS OF CUSA PREACHES AT AIX-LA-CHAPELLE, by COLE SWENSEN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Godar %chi tectan
Last Line: Often find myself at home
Subject(s): Berry (france); Book Of Hours; Catholic Church - Liturgy; Church Year; Fifteenth Century - Poetry; Manuscripts, Latin (medieval And Modern); Months; Tres Riches Heures Du Duc De Berry


OCTOBER 7, 1434, by COLE SWENSEN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Remembered for its gale-both of the two surviving accounts of this day
Last Line: And laid it down on a garden gate, balancing. I swear I saw this %with my eyes
Subject(s): Berry (france); Book Of Hours; Catholic Church - Liturgy; Church Year; Fifteenth Century - Poetry; Manuscripts, Latin (medieval And Modern); Months; Tres Riches Heures Du Duc De Berry


OCTOBER: A SUPERSTITIOUS HOUR, by COLE SWENSEN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Nothing is as is seen
Last Line: To have seen, whenever she glanced up, a face she no longer recognized
Subject(s): Berry (france); Book Of Hours; Catholic Church - Liturgy; Church Year; Fifteenth Century - Poetry; Manuscripts, Latin (medieval And Modern); Months; Tres Riches Heures Du Duc De Berry


ODE, by WILLIAM BECKFORD    Poem Source                    
First Line: To orisons, the midnight bell
Subject(s): France; Travel


ODE IN MEMORY OF THE AMERICAN VOLUNTEERS FALLEN FOR FRANCE, by ALAN SEEGER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Ay, it is fitting on this holiday
Last Line: For you have died for france and vindicated us.
Variant Title(s): America And France
Subject(s): Americans In France; Soldiers' Writings; World War I; First World War


ODE ON PROCLAMATION OF THE FRENCH REPUBLIC, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: With songs and crying and sound of acclamations
Last Line: The cry thou gavest at heart was only of delight.
Subject(s): France; Hope; Lament; Light; Nations; War; Optimism


ODE TO FRANCE (FEBRUARY, 1848), by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: As, flake by flake, the beetling avalanches
Last Line: Of brotherhood and right.
Subject(s): France; French Revolution (1848); February Revolution


ODE, WRITTEN DURING THE NEGOTIATIONS WITH BONAPARTE, IN JANUARY, 1814, by ROBERT SOUTHEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Who counsels peace at this momentous hour
Last Line: Take vengeance for thyself, and for mankind!
Subject(s): Great Britain - Relations With France; Napoleon I (1769-1821)


OH, IT IS GOOD, by ROBERT WILLIAM SERVICE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Oh, it is good to drink and sup
Last Line: Thy little shining trails of heaven.
Subject(s): Food & Eating; Paris, France


OLD DAVID SMALL, by ROBERT WILLIAM SERVICE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: He dreamed away his hours in school
Last Line: "I've loved it all . . ."" -- and so he died."
Subject(s): Paris, France


OLD SHEPHERD IN PROVENCE, by ROBERT FAGLES    Poem Source                    
First Line: Frightening, how he recalls my father
Last Line: Ripen the work of my hands upon me, father, %full and ripe as adam in the fall
Subject(s): Fathers; Provence, France; Shepherds And Shepherdesses


ON CALAIS SANDS, by ANDREW LANG    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: On calais sands the gray began
Last Line: On calais sands!
Subject(s): Calais, France


ON ENGLISH MONSIEUR, by BEN JONSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Would you believe, when you this monsieur see
Last Line: Daily to turn in paul's, and help the trade.
Subject(s): France


ON RUE SAINT-JACQUES, by ANDRE SALMON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: When I lived one hard winter on rue saint-jacques
Last Line: Item, all the past, and my regrets.
Subject(s): France; Villon, Francois (1431-1463)


ON TALK OF PEACE AT THIS TIME, by ROBERT FROST    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: France. France, I know not what is in my heart
Last Line: Is made secure for us and hell is thwarted.
Subject(s): France; Peace; World War I; First World War


ON THE BOULEVARD, by ROBERT WILLIAM SERVICE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Oh, it's pleasant sitting here
Last Line: Sitting on the boulevard!
Subject(s): Paris, France; Streets; Avenues


ON THE CLOCK IN STRASBURG CATHEDRAL, by ROWLAND EYLES EGERTON-WARBURTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Due praise be his whose skill to strasburg gave
Last Line: To ponder on eternity how few!
Alternate Author Name(s): Egerton-warburton, R. E.
Subject(s): Clocks; Public Worship; Strasbourg, France; Time; Church Attendance


ON THE DEATH OF HER BROTHER, FRANCIS I, by MARGARET OF ANGOULEME    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Tis done! A father, mother, gone
Last Line: That we may be his own at last!
Alternate Author Name(s): Marguerite D'angouleme; Marguerite Of Navarre; Marguerite De Valois
Subject(s): Death; Francis I, King Of France (1494-1547); Dead, The


ON THE FLY-LEAF OF ERCKMANN-CHATRIAN'S NOVEL 'MADAME THERESE', by TORU DUTT    Poem Source                    
First Line: Wavered the foremost soldiers, -- then fell back
Last Line: Ah, had a washington but then been found!
Subject(s): Chatrian, Alexandre (1826-1890); Erckmann, Emile (1822-1899); France


ON THE LIGHTHOUSE AT ANTIBES, by MATHILDE BLIND    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A stormy light of sunset glows and glares
Last Line: How man keeps watch o'er man through deadliest night.
Alternate Author Name(s): Lake, Claude
Subject(s): Antibes, France; Lighthouses


ON THE LUTES OF FRANCE: MANDOLIN, by THOMAS WALSH    Poem Text                    
First Line: They sound their serenades
Last Line: Amid the breeze's whirl.
Alternate Author Name(s): Gill, Roderick; Strange, Garrett
Subject(s): France; Musical Instruments


ON THE PROSPECT OF A REVOLUTION IN FRANCE, by PHILIP FRENEAU    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Borne on the wings of time another year
Subject(s): France


ON THE TOILET TABLE OF QUEEN MARIE-ANTIONETTE, by JOHN BOWYER BUCHANAN NICHOLS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: This was her table, these her trim outspread
Last Line: The most unhappy head in all the world.
Alternate Author Name(s): Nichols, Bowyer
Subject(s): Marie Antoinette, Queen Of France


ON THE WATCHMAN'S ARRIVAL IN PARIS, by HEINRICH HEINE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Good, watchman with face so sad and despairing
Last Line: The censorship will of itself disappear.
Subject(s): France; Freedom; Germany; Liberty; Germans


OUTLAW, by ROBERT WILLIAM SERVICE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A wild and woeful race he ran
Last Line: For mercy at my judgment seat
Subject(s): Animals; Dogs; Paris, France


PAINTER PAINTS A CALENDAR, by COLE SWENSEN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Languor. Succor. Ardor. Such is the tenor of the entry. You open a little door
Last Line: Always %wanted %he said %and did
Variant Title(s): The Painter Rearranges The Mirrors (1415
Subject(s): Berry (france); Book Of Hours; Catholic Church - Liturgy; Church Year; Fifteenth Century - Poetry; Manuscripts, Latin (medieval And Modern); Months; Tres Riches Heures Du Duc De Berry


PALACE BURNER (PARIS, 1871); A PICTURE IN A NEWSPAPER, by SARAH MORGAN BRYAN PIATT    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: She has been burning palaces. 'to see
Last Line: A being finer than my soul, I fear
Alternate Author Name(s): Piatt, Sarah
Variant Title(s): The Palace-burne
Subject(s): Communism; Paris, France


PANTHER, by RAINER MARIA RILKE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: His vision, from the constantly passing bars
Last Line: Plunge into the heart and is gone
Subject(s): Imagination; Panthers; Paris, France; Vision


PARIS, by INGEBORG BACHMANN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Lashed to the wheel of night
Last Line: But where we are not, there is night
Subject(s): Homesickness; Paris, France


PARIS, by BILLY COLLINS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In the apartment someone gave me
Last Line: As they float down the river of this momentous day
Subject(s): Baths & Bathing; Paris, France; Tourists; Showers & Showering


PARIS, by BILLY COLLINS    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In the apartment someone gave me
Last Line: The boats of the strange %as they floated down the river of whatever day it was
Subject(s): Baths And Bathing; Paris, France; Tourists


PARIS, by PETER JOHNSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A white poodle named gigi. A fingernail
Last Line: To whom shall I give it?
Subject(s): Paris, France; Dogs; Love


PARIS, by ALAN SEEGER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: First, london for its myriads; for its height
Last Line: And all earth paid in orange and purple to pavilion the bed of desire!
Subject(s): Paris, France


PARIS, by KARL SHAPIRO    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: City of man
Subject(s): Paris, France


PARIS, by GERALD STERN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: As I recall the meal I ate was liver
Subject(s): Food & Eating; Paris, France; Travel; Journeys; Trips


PARIS, by GERALD STERN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: As I recall the meal I ate was liver
Last Line: My only belief, what I went there for
Subject(s): Food And Eating; Paris, France; Travel


PARIS, by ARTHUR WILLIAM SYMONS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: My paris is a land where twilight days
Last Line: A rose's place among our memories.
Subject(s): Paris, France


PARIS AT NIGHT, by EDOUARD JOACHIM CORBIERE    Poem Text                    
First Line: It is the sea: dead calm - and the spring tide
Last Line: On a bed of the morgue . . . With his eyes wide open!
Alternate Author Name(s): Corbiere, Tristan
Subject(s): Night; Paris, France; Bedtime


PARIS BY DAY, by EDOUARD JOACHIM CORBIERE    Poem Text                    
First Line: See the great circle of copper shine above
Last Line: Our special sustenance is our flask of gall.
Alternate Author Name(s): Corbiere, Tristan
Subject(s): Day; Heat; Paris, France; Poetry & Poets - French; Sun


PARIS BY NIGHT, by EDOUARD JOACHIM CORBIERE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Tis the sea - calm surface. - and the great tide
Last Line: On a bed of the morgue—with staring eyes.
Alternate Author Name(s): Corbiere, Tristan
Subject(s): Calm; Night; Paris, France; Placid; Undisturbed; Tranquility; Bedtime


PARIS IN SPRING, by SARA TEASDALE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The city's all a-shining
Last Line: And spring-time's come again.
Alternate Author Name(s): Filsinger, Ernest B., Mrs.
Subject(s): Paris, France


PARIS IS A GAME OF ROULETTE, by HERBERT ZAND    Poem Source                    
Subject(s): Paris, France


PARIS NOTEBOOK, SELS., by DAVID WHEATLEY                       
Subject(s): Paris, France


PARIS PLAN IN HAND, by CLARENCE MAJOR    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Every day you are one and I am, too. Paris city-plan in hand
Last Line: Continuously, we are two
Subject(s): Paintings And Painters; Paris, France; Restaurants; Seine (river), France; Tourists; Travel


PARIS SOUS LA PLUIE (AN EARLY BONNARD), by JAMES MONAHAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Each has his france; and mine's three feet by two
Last Line: From their talk, in that café, in its smoke-loud air.
Subject(s): Bonnard, Pierre (1867-1947); Cities; Paris, France; Travel; Urban Life; Journeys; Trips


PARIS STREET SONGS: 1, by JAMES RICHARD BROUGHTON    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Geraldine, geraldine
Last Line: She's not pretty, she's not clean, %o I envy geraldine!
Subject(s): Paris, France


PARIS STREET SONGS: 2, by JAMES RICHARD BROUGHTON    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Jean and jeannot and jean-michel
Last Line: Jean and jeannot and jean-michel
Subject(s): Paris, France


PARIS YOU SENT ME, by JANET MCCONN    Poem Source                    
Last Line: The only one left open in %this off-season
Subject(s): Memory; Paris, France


PARIS, MAY 1ST, by HERMAN DE CONINCK    Poem Source                    
First Line: Paris, a hundred yards behind notre dame
Last Line: I wish I was more of a stranger here than I am. %and this century less mine
Subject(s): Paris, France


PARIS, OCTOBER, 1936, by CESAR VALLEJO    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: From all of this I am the only one who leaves.
Subject(s): Paris, France


PAX BRITANNICA, by ALFRED AUSTIN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Behind her rolling ramparts england lay
Last Line: Watchful she leaned.
Subject(s): Calm; Great Britain - Relations With France; Nations; Peace; Retirement; Placid; Undisturbed; Tranquility


PEACE AND DUNKIRK; SURRENDER OF DUNKIRK TO GENERAL HILL, by JONATHAN SWIFT    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Spite of dutch friends and english foes
Last Line: He'll be obliged to give his tenants warning
Subject(s): Dunkirk, France


PERSEVERANCE D'AMOUR; A LITTLE PLAY, by FORD MADOX FORD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A pretty pass
Last Line: From the window-sill. Its wings clatter in the stillness.
Alternate Author Name(s): Hueffer, Ford Hermann; Hueffer, Ford Madox
Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; France; Love; Plays & Playwrights ; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Dramatists


PLACE DE LA CONCORDE, by FLORENCE EARLE COATES    Poem Text                    
First Line: Near where the royal victims fell
Last Line: And kissed her on both cheeks!
Subject(s): Place De La Concorde, Paris; World War I - France


PLUS CA CHANGE, by ALAN+(2) SULLIVAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: A gray pall drops from mount pelee
Last Line: Mounting the cracked and weathered stairs %so ominously overhung
Subject(s): France; Tourists


POEM: 4, by LAURENCE MINOT    Poem Text                    
First Line: Edward our comely king
Last Line: And keþed him in þe berde.
Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Exiles; France; Grief; Sin; Sorrow; Sadness


POEM: 6, by LAURENCE MINOT    Poem Text                    
First Line: Towrenay, pow has tight
Last Line: And fro all sins vs saue. Amen.
Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; France; Sin; War


POEM: 7, by LAURENCE MINOT    Poem Text                    
First Line: Men may rede in romance right
Last Line: With his men bifor calays toune.
Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; France; Religion; War; Theology


POEM: 8, by LAURENCE MINOT    Poem Text                    
First Line: Calays men, now mai ge care
Last Line: Edward wan it at his will.
Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; France; War


PONT MIRABEAU, by GUILLAUME APOLLINAIRE    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Beneath pont mirabeau flows the seine
Alternate Author Name(s): Kostrowitzky, Wilhelm Apollina
Subject(s): Bridges; Paris, France


PONT MIRABEAU, by GUILLAUME APOLLINAIRE    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Under pont mirabeau flows the seine
Last Line: The days go running - I stay here
Alternate Author Name(s): Kostrowitzky, Wilhelm Apollina
Subject(s): Bridges; Paris, France; Transience


PONT MIRABEAU, by GUILLAUME APOLLINAIRE    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Beneath the pont mirabeau flows the seine
Last Line: The days go by I remain
Alternate Author Name(s): Kostrowitzky, Wilhelm Apollina
Subject(s): Paris, France; Seine (river), France


POOR PETER, by ROBERT WILLIAM SERVICE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Blind peter piper used to play
Last Line: Blind peter seems contented.
Subject(s): Blindness; Paris, France; Visually Handicapped


POPHAM OF THE NEW SONG: 7. SONG, by NORMAN DUBIE    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A bird drops down from a tree in the sun in marseille
Last Line: No longer a bitter poem; no longer a poem that could continue!
Subject(s): Birds; Love; Man-woman Relationships; Marseilles, France; Nazis; Poetry & Poets; Male-female Relations; National Socialism


PRAYER TO THE VIRGIN OF CHARTRES, by HENRY BROOKS ADAMS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Gracious lady: / simple as when I asked your aid before
Last Line: The futile folly of the infinite!
Subject(s): Catholics; Chartres, France; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women In The Bible; Roman Catholics; Catholicism; Virgin Mary


PREFACE, by COLE SWENSEN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Numbers, which saint augustine considered %god thinks
Last Line: To empty the ocean to fill in the sand
Variant Title(s): Such Rich Hour: Prefac
Subject(s): Berry (france); Book Of Hours; Catholic Church - Liturgy; Church Year; Fifteenth Century - Poetry; Manuscripts, Latin (medieval And Modern); Months; Tres Riches Heures Du Duc De Berry


PREGNANCY, by KENNETH KOCH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Inside the pomegranate is the blue sky
Subject(s): Wisconsin; Paris, France; Animals; City & Town Life; Country Life


PRINCE WILLIAM HENRY'S SOLILOQUY, by PHILIP FRENEAU    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: People are mad, thus to adore the dauphin
Last Line: And seas congeal beneath the torrid zone!
Subject(s): France; William Iv, King Of England (1765-1837)


PRISCILLA, by ROBERT WILLIAM SERVICE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Jerry macmullen, the millionaire
Last Line: Hanged if I know who's right.
Subject(s): Debates; Paris, France


PROLOGUE, by COLE SWENSEN    Poem Source                    
First Line: And ten days later, the locks and keys
Last Line: That it had to happen/will happen (circle one) this way
Subject(s): Berry (france); Book Of Hours; Catholic Church - Liturgy; Church Year; Fifteenth Century - Poetry; Manuscripts, Latin (medieval And Modern); Months; Tres Riches Heures Du Duc De Berry


PROLOGUE TO THE ORPHAN, by MATTHEW PRIOR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: What! Would my humble comrades have me say
Last Line: But leave our orphan squalling at your door.
Subject(s): Dancing & Dancers; France; Friendship; Orphans; Plays & Playwrights; Foundlings


PROSE OF THE TRANS-SIBERIAN AND OF LITTLE JEANNE OF FRAN, by FREDERIC SAUSER    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Back then I was still young
Last Line: City of the incomparable tower the great gibbet and the wheel
Alternate Author Name(s): Cendrars, Blaise
Subject(s): Moscow; Paris, France; Travel


PROVENCAL LEGEND, by WILLA SIBERT CATHER    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: On his little grave and wild
Last Line: Play-time to that martyr child
Subject(s): Death - Children; Provence, France


PROVENCE, by FRANCES CROFTS DARWIN CORNFORD    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The olive-boughs are black,like blinding hair
Subject(s): Provence, France


PROVENCE, by ELEANOR MAY SARTON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis            
First Line: The shadows are all black
Last Line: Between earth and fire
Subject(s): Provence, France


PROVINCIA DESERTA, by EZRA POUND    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: At rochecoart
Last Line: I have thought of them living.
Subject(s): France


PUBLIC HOLIDAY: PARIS, by JOYCE HORNER    Poem Source                    
First Line: In the picture the people stroll and stroll all day
Subject(s): Paris, France


QUI VIVE?, by GRACE ELLERY CHANNING-STETSON    Poem Text                    
First Line: Qui vive? Who passes by up there?
Last Line: The flags of france.
Subject(s): Flags - France; World War I - France


RACHEL: 1, by MATTHEW ARNOLD    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In paris all look'd hot and like to fade
Last Line: And rachel's switzerland, her rhine, is here!
Subject(s): Jews; Paris, France; Judaism


RACISM IN FRANCE, by JAMES ANDREW EMANUEL    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: But there's racism in france too
Last Line: Each white cup silent, %dark, and strangely warm
Subject(s): France; Racism


RAOUL LUFBERY, by WILLIAM A. PHELON    Poem Text                    
First Line: His was the spirit that, in ages gone
Last Line: A noble ending—and a deathless name!
Subject(s): Death; France; Soldiers; World War I; Dead, The; First World War


REALIZATION, by GLADYS CROMWELL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: There is one syllable that stirs me: war
Last Line: God, let me apprehend this nearer strife!
Subject(s): Death; England; France; War; World War I; Dead, The; English; First World War


RECIPES FOR RED, by COLE SWENSEN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Ardor and pestle %igneous anchor
Last Line: Monsieur, will you do me the honor; take the blood from this faucet %and make from it a pair of glov
Variant Title(s): Such Rich Hour: Recipes For Re
Subject(s): Berry (france); Book Of Hours; Catholic Church - Liturgy; Church Year; Fifteenth Century - Poetry; Manuscripts, Latin (medieval And Modern); Months; Tres Riches Heures Du Duc De Berry


RECURRENT MIRACLE, by COLE SWENSEN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Une si belle chance that a %merveille could strike
Last Line: And wondered if anything would change
Subject(s): Berry (france); Book Of Hours; Catholic Church - Liturgy; Church Year; Fifteenth Century - Poetry; Manuscripts, Latin (medieval And Modern); Months; Tres Riches Heures Du Duc De Berry


RED APPLES, by KARL E. MUNDT    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: He tries to sell red apples in the street
Last Line: Cannot remember belleau wood.
Subject(s): Apples; Belleau Wood, France; Fruit; Social Problems; Soldiers; Unemployment; War


RED COTTON NIGHT-CAP COUNTRY; OR, TURF AND TOWERS: PART 1, by ROBERT BROWNING    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: And so, here happily we meet, fair friend
Last Line: A month ago: at vire they tried the case.
Subject(s): Normandy, France; Paris, France; Country Life


RED COTTON NIGHT-CAP COUNTRY; OR, TURF AND TOWERS: PART 2, by ROBERT BROWNING    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Monsieur leonce miranda, then, ... But stay!
Last Line: Meanwhile, no separation of the pair!
Subject(s): Normandy, France; Death; Sex; Obsessions; Guilt; Religion; Suicide; Dead, The; Theology


RED COTTON NIGHT-CAP COUNTRY; OR, TURF AND TOWERS: PART 3, by ROBERT BROWNING    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: And so slipt pleasantly away five years
Last Line: Look at it for a moment while I breathe.
Subject(s): Normandy, France; Death; Sex; Obsessions; Guilt; Religion; Suicide; Dead, The; Theology


RED COTTON NIGHT-CAP COUNTRY; OR, TURF AND TOWERS: PART 4, by ROBERT BROWNING    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Ready to hear the rest? How good you are!
Last Line: And stand all ready for morn's joy a-blush?
Subject(s): Normandy, France; Death; Sex; Obsessions; Guilt; Religion; Suicide; Dead, The; Theology


REGRET, FOR MARY STUART'S DEPARTURE, by PIERRE DE RONSARD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: If spangled fields should lose their every flower
Last Line: To end my days.
Subject(s): France; Loss; Mary, Queen Of Scots (1542-1587); Singing & Singers; Mary Stuart


REMEMBRANCE, by ALFRED DE MUSSET    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: O sacred ground, in wandering back to thee
Last Line: "while life and thought remain."
Subject(s): Forests; France; Graves; Sand, George (1804-1876); Time; Woods; Tombs; Tombstones; Dupin, Amanda. Baronne Dudevant


REPUBLIC TO REPUBLIC, 1776-1917, by WITTER BYNNER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: France! / it is I answering
Last Line: O liberty, my love!
Alternate Author Name(s): Morgan, Emanuel
Subject(s): France; World War I; First World War


RESPONSE: CHRISTINE, by COLE SWENSEN    Poem Source                    
First Line: De pisan founds (inciting
Last Line: Who (what) came (is just now coming) in
Subject(s): Berry (france); Book Of Hours; Catholic Church - Liturgy; Church Year; Fifteenth Century - Poetry; Manuscripts, Latin (medieval And Modern); Months; Tres Riches Heures Du Duc De Berry


RETURN, by MARJORIE AGOSIN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Don't let me be met by the loneliness of an empty house
Last Line: A dream that I dream while you are dreaming
Subject(s): Dreams; France; Love; Solitude


RETURNING TO PARIS, by LOUIS SIMPSON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Paris changes, said baudelaire
Last Line: With miriam, waiting to cross
Subject(s): Paris, France


RHEIMS, by ROBERT UNDERWOOD JOHNSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: O fortress of the spirit, and thyself
Last Line: And, grieving, mingle pity with their blame.
Subject(s): Rheims, France; World War I; First World War


RHEIMS CATHEDRAL - 1914, by GRACE HAZARD CONKLING    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A winged death has smitten dumb thy bells
Last Line: Thy bells live on, and heaven is in their tone!
Subject(s): Holidays; Rheims, France; Veterans Day; World War I; First World War


RICHARD II FORTY, by LOUIS ARAGON    Poem Source                    
First Line: My country now is like a barge
Last Line: The light was pallis on the leaf %still am I king of all my grief
Subject(s): France; Grief; Richard Ii, King Of England (1367-1400); World War Ii


RIOUPEROUX, by JAMES ELROY FLECKER    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: High and solemn mountains guard riouperoux
Last Line: And walk with you, and talk with you, like any other boy.
Subject(s): France; Travel; Journeys; Trips


RIOUPEROUX RE-VISITED, by HUMBERT WOLFE    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: It was before elkin matthews published
Subject(s): France


RITOURNELLE, PARIS 1948, by MARIE PONSOT    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Down from the subtle grey sorbonne and
Subject(s): Paris, France


ROMANCERO: BOOK 1. HISTORIES: MARIE ANTOINETTE, by HEINRICH HEINE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The plate-glass windows gleam in the sun
Last Line: He starts in fearful amazement.
Subject(s): Clothing & Dress; Marie Antoinette, Queen Of France; Women


RONDEL OF A RONDEL, by AUSTIN PHILIPS    Poem Text                    
First Line: These antique metres of old france
Last Line: So dear to minstrel and trouvère.
Subject(s): France; Minstrels; Roundels


ROOM 4: THE PAINTER CHAP, by ROBERT WILLIAM SERVICE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: He gives me such a bold and curious look
Last Line: The queen of virtues is discretion.
Subject(s): Neighbors; Paris, France


ROOM 5: THE CONCERT SINGER, by ROBERT WILLIAM SERVICE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I'm one of these haphazard chaps
Last Line: I often wonder what's her story.
Subject(s): Bohemians; Neighbors; Paris, France; Singing & Singers


ROOM 6: THE LITTLE WORKGIRL, by ROBERT WILLIAM SERVICE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Three gentlemen live close beside me
Last Line: His night's made up of song and folly.
Subject(s): Neighbors; Paris, France


ROOM 7: THE COCO-FIEND, by ROBERT WILLIAM SERVICE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I look at no one, me
Last Line: Cocaine! . . .
Subject(s): Drugs & Drug Abuse; Paris, France


ROUEN, by EDWARD MOXON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Bright was the moon as from thy gates I went
Last Line: Thyself didst wear a crown upon thy brow!
Subject(s): Rouen, France


ROUEN, PLACE DE LA PUCELLE, by MARIA WHITE LOWELL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Here blooms the legend, fed by time and chance
Last Line: For each repentant soul.
Variant Title(s): Rouen
Subject(s): France; Joan Of Arc (1412-1431); Legends; War


ROUEN; 26 APRIL - 25 MAY 1915, by MAY WEDDERBURN CANNAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Early morning over rouen, hopeful, high, courageous morning
Last Line: And the trains that go from rouen at the end of the day.
Subject(s): Nurses; Rouen, France; Women; World War I; First World War


ROUGE BOUQUET [MARCH 7, 1918], by ALFRED JOYCE KILMER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In a wood they call the rouge bouquet
Last Line: "farewell!"
Alternate Author Name(s): Kilmer, Joyce
Subject(s): France; Patriotism; World War I; First World War


RUNNING THE BLOCKADE, by NORA PERRY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: When the french fleet lay
Last Line: Who had run the blockade!
Subject(s): American Revolution; Boston Harbor, Blockade Of (1778); Navy - France; Navy - Great Britain; French Navy; English Navy


SAINT CLOUD, by WALTER SCOTT    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Soft spread the southern summer night
Last Line: Our evenings at saint cloud.
Subject(s): France; Travel; Journeys; Trips


SAINTE JEANNE OF FRANCE, by MARION COUTHOUY SMITH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Sainte jeanne went harvesting in france
Last Line: Had flowered to her name.
Subject(s): France; Saints; World War I - France


SATURDAY, MARCH 2, by COLE SWENSEN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Melusine, who was touched %beyond oath
Last Line: Are you doing in my sky?
Subject(s): Berry (france); Book Of Hours; Catholic Church - Liturgy; Church Year; Fifteenth Century - Poetry; Manuscripts, Latin (medieval And Modern); Months; Tres Riches Heures Du Duc De Berry


SEDAN, by HILAIRE BELLOC    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I, from a window where the meuse is wide
Last Line: And round her terrible head the morning stars.
Alternate Author Name(s): Belloc, Joseph Hilaire Pierre Rene
Subject(s): World War I - France


SEINE IN PARIS, by JEAN TARDIEU    Poem Source                    
First Line: Since I prefer rivers to regrets
Last Line: With equal love and equal terror, wave upon wave, %meanderings of the mind and the bend of my river
Subject(s): Seine (river), France


SEPTEMBER 1, 618: IN LIGHT OF GOLD: 1. FIRE GILDING, by COLE SWENSEN    Poem Source                    
First Line: The trick this time is mercury %rubbed in by hand, hand and chalice
Last Line: This huge we %put it there
Subject(s): Berry (france); Book Of Hours; Catholic Church - Liturgy; Church Year; Fifteenth Century - Poetry; Manuscripts, Latin (medieval And Modern); Months; Tres Riches Heures Du Duc De Berry


SEPTEMBER 1. 618: IN LIGHT OF GOLD: 3. GILDING BY ATTRITION, by COLE SWENSEN    Poem Source                    
First Line: You take ground glass (you grind glass)
Last Line: Or the people or at least their eyes
Subject(s): Berry (france); Book Of Hours; Catholic Church - Liturgy; Church Year; Fifteenth Century - Poetry; Manuscripts, Latin (medieval And Modern); Months; Tres Riches Heures Du Duc De Berry


SEPTEMBER 1.618: IN LIGHT OF GOLD: 2. CHRYSOGRAPHY WITH GOLD INKS, by COLE SWENSEN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Refractory. %ground the lens rubbing two fingers together: I am lonely
Last Line: Burnish with a tooth tied firmly to an oar
Subject(s): Berry (france); Book Of Hours; Catholic Church - Liturgy; Church Year; Fifteenth Century - Poetry; Manuscripts, Latin (medieval And Modern); Months; Tres Riches Heures Du Duc De Berry


SEPTEMBER 10, 1419: THE ASSASSINATION OF JEAN SANS PEUR, by COLE SWENSEN    Poem Source                    
First Line: In retaliation (see november 23) %kneeling in homage
Last Line: In a red hat, and behind him, a man dressed in red
Subject(s): Berry (france); Book Of Hours; Catholic Church - Liturgy; Church Year; Fifteenth Century - Poetry; Manuscripts, Latin (medieval And Modern); Months; Tres Riches Heures Du Duc De Berry


SEPTEMBER 21, 1431: WOMAN LOSES SLEEP, by COLE SWENSEN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Early afternoon-many around-you know how those women
Last Line: Of falling. 'a rest' she says 'like one has never felt, and the extravagant %promise of an imminent
Subject(s): Berry (france); Book Of Hours; Catholic Church - Liturgy; Church Year; Fifteenth Century - Poetry; Manuscripts, Latin (medieval And Modern); Months; Tres Riches Heures Du Duc De Berry


SESTINA, by EDMUND WILLIAM GOSSE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: In fair provence, the land of lute and rose
Last Line: Yet have we too known woe, and worn thy rose.
Subject(s): Dante Alighieri (1265-1321); Love - Complaints; Provence, France


SEURAT'S SUNDAY AFTERNOON ALONG THE SEINE, by DELMORE SCHWARTZ    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: What are they looking at? Is it the river?
Subject(s): Seine (river), France; Seurat, Georges (1859-1891)


SEURAT'S SUNDAY AFTERNOON ALONG THE SEINE, by DELMORE SCHWARTZ    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: What are they looking at? Is it the river?
Subject(s): Seine (river), France; Seurat, Georges (1859-1891)


SIGNS OF THE TIMES, by JANE FRANCESCA WILDE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: When mighty passions, surging, heave the depth of life's great ocean
Last Line: Advance! And be your watchword ever -- god for ireland!
Alternate Author Name(s): Speranza; Elgee, Jane Francesca; Wilde, William Robert Wills, Mrs.
Subject(s): France; Italy; Nationalism - Ireland; Russia; Italians; Soviet Union; Russians


SINGERS OF PROVENCE, by DAVID IGNATOW    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Was it beauty for one's head
Subject(s): Provence, France; Singing And Singers


SIR ELIDUC; A LAY OF MARIE, by DAVID MACBETH MOIR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Touch ye the harp with tender hand
Last Line: By man was never known!
Alternate Author Name(s): Delta
Subject(s): Farewell; Hearts; Love - Loss Of; Marie De France (12th Century); Marriage; Parting; Weddings; Husbands; Wives


SMELL OF FRENCH BOOKS, by RICHARD FAMMEREE    Poem Source                    
First Line: The smell of french books is particuliere. It is
Last Line: It is the lick, lick, lick of a chocolate clock, and I am asleep %before the chiming
Subject(s): Books; France; Sleep


SOLDIERS PASSING, by AGNES MARY F. ROBINSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Along the planetree-dappled pearly street
Last Line: And every frenchman feels himself its son!
Alternate Author Name(s): Duclaux, Madame Emile; Darmesteter, Mary; Robinson, A. Mary F.
Subject(s): France


SOME AMERICANS IN PARIS, by DONALD HALL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Here, in the right cafe, convened by fate
Subject(s): Paris, France


SOME FRENCHMEN, by JOHN UPDIKE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Monsieur etienne de silhouette
Last Line: Developed just in time for bed
Subject(s): Ampere, Jean Jacques Antoine (1800-1864); Capital Punishment; Daguerre, Louis (1789-1851); France; Guillotin, Joseph Ignace (1738-1814); Paintings And Painters; Sax, Adolph (1814-1894); Silhouette, Etienne De (1709-1767); Writing & Writers; Hanging; Exec


SOME FRENCHMEN, by JOHN UPDIKE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Monsieur etienne de silhouette
Subject(s): Ampere, Jean Jacques Antoine (1800-1864); Capital Punishment; Daguerre, Louis (1789-1851); France; Guillotin, Joseph Ignace (1738-1814); Paintings And Painters; Sax, Adolph (1814-1894); Silhouette, Etienne De (1709-1767); Writing And Writers


SOMEWHERE IN FRANCE, by MULFORD DOUGHTY    Poem Text                    
First Line: Song of a fair may morning
Last Line: Only a mile from me.
Subject(s): Death; France; Military; Soldiers; War; Dead, The


SONG, by PHILIPPE SOUPAULT    Poem Text                    
First Line: Mr. Mirror / clothier
Last Line: It is dark night in paris
Subject(s): Dadaism; Night; Paris, France; Singing & Singers; Bedtime


SONG OF AMERICAN RESIDENT IN FRANCE, by DOROTHY PARKER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Oh, we are the bold expatriate band!
Alternate Author Name(s): Rothschild, Dorothy
Subject(s): Immigration & Emigration; France


SONG: 5, by THOMAS WYATT    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: To seek each where where man doth live
Last Line: Dare I well give, I say, my heart to year.
Alternate Author Name(s): Wyat, Thomas
Subject(s): France; Hearts; Jewelry & Jewelers; Sea; Singing & Singers; Ocean


SONNET ADDRESSED TO HENRY III ON THE DEATH OF THULENE, KING'S FOOL, by JEAN PASSERAT    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Thulene is dead, my lord. I saw his funeral
Last Line: She's selmd favored poets in the best of times
Subject(s): Court Jesters; Henry Iii, King Of France (1551-1589)


SONNET INSERTED IN M. RIO'S WORK, 'LA PETITE CHOUANNERIE', by RICHARD MONCKTON MILNES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: For honest men, of every blood and creed
Last Line: If what god loves to make man's passions still will mar?
Alternate Author Name(s): Houghton, 1st Baron; Houghton, Lord
Subject(s): England; France; English


SONNET TO A SONNET, by THOMAS HOOD    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Rare composition of a poet-knight
Last Line: "thy phrase ""sweet enemy"" applied to france!"
Subject(s): Chivalry; Great Britain - Relations With France


SPRING, by KENNETH REXROTH    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In the morning all the almond trees
Last Line: The movement of leaves and stones
Subject(s): Nature; Provence, France; Spring


SPRING FLOODS (IN NORMANDY), by WILLIAM RENTON    Poem Text                    
First Line: A power is in the floods awake
Last Line: A city by a sea.
Subject(s): Floods; Normandy, France


SPRING IN BELLEAU WOOD, by EVELYN NORCROSS SHERRILL    Poem Text                    
First Line: When spring returns to belleau wood
Last Line: When spring returns to belleau wood.
Subject(s): Belleau Wood, France; Spring; World War I; First World War


ST. BARTHOLOMEW'S DAY, by ROBERT SOUTHEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The night is come, no fears disturb
Last Line: And ye had joy in heaven.
Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Death; Despair; France; Freedom; Future Life; Guilt; Saints; Dead, The; Liberty; Retribution; Eternity; After Life


STANZA. FROM A TRANSLATION OF THE MARSEILLAISE HYMN, by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Tremble kings despised of man!
Last Line: Which leads to death or victory ...
Subject(s): Marseillaise, La; National Songs - France; French National Anthem


STANZAS COMPOSED AT CARNAC, by MATTHEW ARNOLD    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Far on its rocky knoll descried
Last Line: The south is mistress of his grave.
Variant Title(s): Scenes From Carnac
Subject(s): Carnac, France


STARS WHICH SEE, STARS WHICH DO NOT SEE, by MARVIN BELL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: They sat by the water. The fine women
Last Line: And then its promise, but never the water.
Subject(s): Beauty; Seine (river), France; Water; Women


STRASBOURG, by VICTOR GUSTAVE PLARR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I saw thee sombrely enthralled
Last Line: Seen thro' glad tears, the tricolors!
Subject(s): Flags; France; Happiness; National Songs; Pride; Progress; Strasbourg, France; Victory; Joy; Delight; National Anthems; Self-esteem; Self-respect


STREAMERS OF LIGHT, by MARJORIE AGOSIN    Poem Source                    
First Line: If you came with me to the south of france
Last Line: I would make your body into a field of lavender
Subject(s): Desire; France; Love


STUDENTS [IN PARIS], by FLORENCE WILKINSON EVANS    Poem Text                    
First Line: John brown and jeanne at fountainbleau
Last Line: Time waits for moments such as these.
Alternate Author Name(s): Wilkinson, Florence
Subject(s): Paris, France; Schools; Students


SUBJUNCTIVE, by ELIZABETH JANE COATSWORTH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Suppose marie antoinette had come to wiscasset
Last Line: And herself going milking with a silver milking pail.
Alternate Author Name(s): Beston, Henry, Mrs.
Subject(s): Maine (state); Marie Antoinette, Queen Of France


SUNDAY AFTERNOON ON THE ISLAND OF LA GRANDE JATTE, by JERRY RATCH    Poem Source                    
First Line: A woman is fishing in the seine at the far left
Subject(s): Seine (river), France


SUNFLOWER, by ANDRE BRETON    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The traveller who crossed les halles at summer's end
Last Line: Andre breton he said may pass here
Subject(s): Paris, France; Sunflowers; Travel


SUNFLOWER, by ANDRE BRETON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The traveller who crossed les halles at summer's end
Last Line: Andre breton he said may pass here
Subject(s): Paris, France


SYMON AND JANET, by ANDREW SCOTT    Poem Text                    
First Line: Surrounded wi' bent and wi' heather
Last Line: Gaed bannin' the french again hame.
Subject(s): Great Britain - Wars With France; Napoleon I (1769-1821)


TALLEYRAND TO LORD GRENVILLE; A METRICAL EPISTLE, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: My lord! Though your lordship repel deviation
Last Line: To pause, and resume the remainder to-morrow.
Subject(s): French Revolution (1789); Great Britain - Relations With France; Grenville, William Wyndham (1759-1834); Talleyrand, Charles (1754-1838)


TEDDY BEAR, by ROBERT WILLIAM SERVICE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: O teddy bear! With your head awry
Last Line: Ah, god! If I only knew!
Subject(s): Paris, France


TENDER LETTER, by JAMES LAUGHLIN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: C'etait a paris. She was jeanine, young, pretty and
Last Line: Maitresse. In three months she was dead of cancer
Subject(s): Cancer (disease); Paris, France; Pentastichs


THE ABSINTHE DRINKERS, by ROBERT WILLIAM SERVICE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: He's yonder, on the terrace of the cafe de la paix
Last Line: So pen and page, awhile farewell.
Subject(s): Absinthe; Paris, France


THE AUCTION SALE, by ROBERT WILLIAM SERVICE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Her little head just topped the window-sill
Last Line: All, all I see just heartbreak and despair.
Subject(s): Auctions; Paris, France


THE BALLAD OF BOUILLABAISSE, by WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A street there is in paris famous
Last Line: -- here comes the smoking bouillabaisse!
Subject(s): Friendship; Paris, France; Restaurants; Travel; Cafes; Diners; Journeys; Trips


THE BISTRO STYX, by RITA DOVE    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: She was thinner, with a mannered gauntness
Last Line: I’ve lost her, I thought, and called for the bill
Subject(s): Paris, France; Persephone; Proserpine; Proserpina


THE BLACK PREACHER; A BRETON LEGEND, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: At carnac in brittany, close on the bay
Last Line: Of the preacher, the tenth verse of chapter nine.
Subject(s): Clergy; France; Legends; Priests; Rabbis; Ministers; Bishops


THE BLOOD-RED FOURRAGERE, by ROBERT WILLIAM SERVICE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: What was the blackest sight to me
Last Line: Our blood-red fourragere.
Subject(s): Murder; Paris, France; Rape; War


THE BOHEMIAN, by ROBERT WILLIAM SERVICE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Up in my garret bleak and bare
Last Line: "hunger and thirst and cold."
Subject(s): Bohemians; Paris, France


THE BOHEMIAN DREAMS, by ROBERT WILLIAM SERVICE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Because my overcoat's in pawn
Last Line: I doze and doze and doze.
Subject(s): Bohemians; Idleness; Paris, France; Sleep; Laziness; Sloth; Indolence


THE BOOBY-TRAP, by ROBERT WILLIAM SERVICE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I'm crawlin' out in the mangolds to bury wot's left o' joe
Last Line: Night!
Subject(s): Death; Paris, France; War; Dead, The


THE BURGHERS OF CALAIS, by EMILY A. BRADDOCK    Poem Text                    
First Line: Philippa of hainault, the good, philippa, england's
Last Line: And tear-dimmed eyes, as when she saved the burghers of calais.
Subject(s): Calais, France; Edward Iii, King Of England (1312-1377)


THE CATHEDRAL OF RHEIMS, by PAUL FORT    Poem Text                    
First Line: Infamous general, baron von plattenberg, if this song of love for my
Last Line: Barbarian!
Subject(s): Churches; France; Singing & Singers; Cathedrals; Songs


THE CHANNEL TUNNEL, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Not for less love, all glorious france, to thee
Last Line: And spirit at one with spirit on either side.
Subject(s): France; Sea; Ocean


THE CHILD OF FRANCE; ON THE BIRTH OF THE PRINCE IMPERIAL OF FRANCE, by JANET HAMILTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Exhausted, faint, and pale
Last Line: Our country, and our god!
Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson
Subject(s): Birth; Courts & Courtiers; France; Inheritance & Succession; Child Birth; Midwifery; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Heirs


THE CHILDREN'S ANGEL, by AGNES MARY F. ROBINSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The streets are dark at clermont in auvern
Last Line: "and take the children's angel from their youth."
Alternate Author Name(s): Duclaux, Madame Emile; Darmesteter, Mary; Robinson, A. Mary F.
Subject(s): Angels; Children; France; Childhood


THE CLOUD, by OLIVER BROOK HERFORD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I wonder what your thoughts are, little cloud
Last Line: Celeste: the cloud!
Subject(s): Clouds; France; Plays & Playwrights ; Women; Dramatists


THE COMFORTER, by ROBERT WILLIAM SERVICE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: As I sat by my baby's bed
Last Line: A snow-white butterfly.
Subject(s): Children; Paris, France; Childhood


THE COMING (CHANSON CORSE), by PHILIP GUEDALLA    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: In seventeen hundred and eighty-nine
Last Line: "a gunner has travelled, a king to be."
Subject(s): France; Oxford University


THE COMING OF PEACE, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis            
First Line: It was the night when we expected news from france
Last Line: I almost heard a cuckoo in trafalgar square!
Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H.
Subject(s): France; War


THE CONTENTED MAN, by ROBERT WILLIAM SERVICE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: How good god is to me,' he said
Last Line: "he keeps me smiling to the end."
Subject(s): Christianity; God; Paris, France


THE CURE'S NIECE, by THEODOSIA (PICKERING) GARRISON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Since gaston kissed and rode away
Last Line: "o uncle, yea!"" I cry."
Alternate Author Name(s): Faulks, Frederick J., Mrs.
Subject(s): Easter; France; Holidays; Love; The Resurrection


THE DEATH OF MARIE TORO, by ROBERT WILLIAM SERVICE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: We're taking marie toro to her home in pere-la-chaise
Last Line: For marie toro, gutter waif and queen of queens, is dead.
Subject(s): Bohemians; Death; Paris, France; Dead, The


THE DEATH OF ROLAND, by LOUIS XAVIER DE RICARD    Poem Text                    
First Line: When I was young -- ah, france was paradise
Last Line: But, sooth, this race of aquitaine is worse!
Subject(s): Death; France; Grief; Hugh Capet (938-996); Roland; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness


THE DOOMED OAK; IN IMITATION OF ANATOLE FRANCE, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In the warm wood bedipped with rosy day
Last Line: And brings the bisson mildews hurrying on.
Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund
Subject(s): France, Anatole (1844-1924); Oak Trees


THE DYNASTS: 3. ACT SIXTH, by THOMAS HARDY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The village of beaumont stands in the centre foreground
Subject(s): Great Britain - Relations With France; Napoleon I (1769-1821); Science; Waterloo; Scientists; Battle Of Waterloo


THE EAGLE AND THE VULTURE, by THOMAS BUCHANAN READ    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: In cherbourg roads the pirate lay
Last Line: "and for heroes like winslow is shouting, ""thank god!"
Subject(s): Alabama (ship); American Civil War; Cherbourg, France; Kearsarge (ship); Sea Battles; U.s. - History; Winslow, John Ancrum (1811-1873); Naval Warfare


THE ESTRANGEMENT, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Dim through cloud vails the moonlight trembles down
Last Line: Shrills malice at the soul grown strange in france.
Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund
Subject(s): France; World War I; First World War


THE FACELESS MAN, by ROBERT WILLIAM SERVICE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I'm dead / officially I'm dead
Last Line: As there alone I wait the last release.
Subject(s): Death; Paris, France; War; Dead, The


THE FALL OF D'ASSAS; A BALLAD OF FRANCE, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Alone through gloomy forest-shades
Last Line: "auvergne, auvergne! The foe!"
Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea
Subject(s): Death; France; Dead, The


THE FIRST GRENADIER OF FRANCE, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Twas in a certain regiment of french grenadiers
Last Line: To cry out always the brave grenadier's name at the roll call.
Subject(s): Courage; France; Soldiers; Valor; Bravery


THE FOURTEENTH OF JULY, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Thou shouldst have risen as never dawn yet rose
Last Line: 07/05/80
Subject(s): Dawn; France; July; Sunrise


THE FRENCH ARMY IN RUSSIA, by GEORGE CROLY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Magnificence of ruin! What has time
Last Line: Must fly, toil, bleed for home; yet never see that home.
Subject(s): Army - France; Russia; Russia - Napoleonic War; Soviet Union; Russians


THE FRENCH ARMY IN RUSSIA (1), by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Humanity, delighting to behold
Last Line: A soundless waste, a trackless vacancy!
Subject(s): Army - France; Russia; Russia - Napoleonic War; Soviet Union; Russians


THE FRONTIER, by PHILIP GUEDALLA    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Guns o' position is long and lean
Last Line: Than a gunner with guns to lay.
Subject(s): France; Oxford University; World War I; First World War


THE GLOVE, by ROBERT BROWNING    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Heighho,' yawned one day king francis
Last Line: With which moral I drop my theorbo.
Subject(s): France


THE GLOVE AND THE LIONS, by JAMES HENRY LEIGH HUNT    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: King francis was a hearty king, and loved a royal sport
Last Line: "like that."
Alternate Author Name(s): Hunt, Leigh
Subject(s): France


THE GOVERNOR AT MARSEILLES, by KATHERINE DRAYTON MAYRANT SIMONS    Poem Text                    
First Line: The massaliots would turn from where they stood
Last Line: "crying 'all this is not enough to wash my hands!'"
Alternate Author Name(s): Maysi, Kadra
Subject(s): Marseilles, France


THE GREAT VIEW, by FORD MADOX FORD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Up here, where the air's very clear
Last Line: There is france.
Alternate Author Name(s): Hueffer, Ford Hermann; Hueffer, Ford Madox
Subject(s): Beauty; France; Nature


THE GRENADIERS, by HEINRICH HEINE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Two grenadiers travell'd tow'rds france one day
Last Line: "for my emperor hasting to battle!"
Subject(s): France; Honor; Soldiers


THE HEROIC RESISTANCE OF THE CITY OF BEAUVAIS, by PAUL FORT    Poem Text                    
First Line: It seemed that master tristan l'ermite was not deceived. Burgundy
Last Line: And performers.
Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Death; France; Heroism; War; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Dead, The; Heroes; Heroines


THE HIDING PLACE, by JORIE GRAHAM    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The last time I saw it was 1968
Last Line: No -- tell them no --
Subject(s): Labor Unions; Paris, France; Riots; Strikes; Labor Disputes; Lockouts


THE ILLUMINATION OF ENGLISH AND FRENCH FLEETS AT PORTSMOUTH, by CHARLES TENNYSON TURNER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Thanks to those festal fires! Mankind shall be
Last Line: And how the bells of welcome pealed and chimed!
Subject(s): Navy - France; Navy - Great Britain; Peace; Portsmouth, England; French Navy; English Navy


THE JOY OF BEING POOR, by ROBERT WILLIAM SERVICE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Let others sing of gold and gear, the joy of being rich
Last Line: Old chap, let's haste, I'm mad to taste the joy of being poor.
Subject(s): Bohemians; Paris, France; Poverty


THE JOY OF LITTLE THINGS, by ROBERT WILLIAM SERVICE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: It's good the great green earth to roam
Last Line: O lord of life, just little things.
Subject(s): Paris, France


THE KING OF NORMANDY, by PIERRE JEAN DE BERANGER    Poem Text                    
First Line: In normandy there reigned a king
Last Line: Oh was n't he a noble king?'
Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Normandy, France; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens


THE KNIGHT AND THE FRIAR: PART 1, by GEORGE COLMAN THE YOUNGER    Poem Text                    
First Line: In our fifth harry's reign, when 'twas the fashion
Last Line: Beats all that I can say upon it.
Subject(s): Great Britain - Wars With France; Love; Melancholy; Dejection


THE LADY OF LA GARAYE, by CAROLINE ELIZABETH SARAH SHERIDAN NORTON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Ruins! A charm is in the word
Last Line: Sound through the river's sweep of onward rushing time!
Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Pearce; Stirling-maxwell, Lady; Norton, The Honourable Mrs. Caroline
Subject(s): France


THE LADY OF PROVENCE, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The war-note of the saracen
Last Line: She hath lived -- she hath loved -- her task is done!
Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea
Subject(s): Courage; Provence, France; Valor; Bravery


THE LAND OF FRANCE; TO ANDRE GIDE, by EDMUND WILLIAM GOSSE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Sometimes at night before the fire I sit
Last Line: A joyful measure to the praise of france.
Subject(s): France


THE LEGLESS MAN, by ROBERT WILLIAM SERVICE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: My mind goes back to fumin wood, and how we stuck it out
Last Line: Lo! How it's silver-lined.
Subject(s): Legs; Paris, France; Physical Disabilities; War; Handicapped; Handicaps; Physically Challenged; Cripples


THE LITTLE VILLAGE, by ERIC PANKEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Dusk as silent as an owl’s wing. The old wall, built by the romans, or built to keep the romans out
Last Line: Planchette on the ouija board centered over no
Subject(s): Villages; Ptovence, France


THE MAGIC CARPET, by LOUIS SIMPSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Every american is a movie critic
Last Line: "and ""siponelle,"" large worm."
Subject(s): Motion Pictures; Paris, France; Writing & Writers; Movies; Cinema


THE MARSEILLAISE, by PAUL FORT    Poem Text                    
First Line: O song that with one blow, at its initial strain, explodes, sets free the
Last Line: To arms ye citizens of every land on earth!
Subject(s): France; Love; Singing & Singers; Songs


THE MARSEILLAISE, by VICTOR GUSTAVE PLARR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A band a-playing a few sooty rods
Last Line: Not france alone, but man!
Subject(s): Ancestry & Ancestors; France; French Revolution (1789); Hope; Justice; National Songs; Optimism; National Anthems


THE MARSEILLAISE, by CLAUDE JOSEPH ROUGET DE LISLE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Ye sons of freedom, wake to glory!
Last Line: To arms! To arms! Ye brave, etc.
Subject(s): France; Freedom; Liberty


THE MEMORY, by PAUL FORT    Poem Text                    
First Line: The more on my fair voyage I dream, the more my langours lose their
Last Line: Remembered dreams I borrow from this, my self-sufficing soul!
Subject(s): Death; France; Memory; Dead, The


THE MICE, by MATTHEW PRIOR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Two mice, dear boy, of genteel fashion
Last Line: Send a good coat, that's all; good-by, sir.
Subject(s): Fables; France; Mice; Mothers; Allegories


THE MIGRATION OF CITIES, by THOMAS MCGRATH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: We love paris
Last Line: Ports where the red flag has secretly flown for years.
Subject(s): Chicago; Cities; Communism; Florence, Italy; Paris, France; Socialism; Urban Life


THE MOBILIZATION IN BRITTANY, by GRACE FALLOW NORTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: It was silent in the street
Last Line: So this is the way of war ...
Subject(s): Brittany, France; World War I; First World War


THE NAME OF FRANCE, by HENRY VAN DYKE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Give us a name to fill the mind
Last Line: I give you france!
Alternate Author Name(s): Civis Americanus
Subject(s): World War I - France


THE NARROW STREET, by HELEN NEWINGTON WILLS    Poem Text                    
First Line: I walked alone the narrow street
Last Line: Yet knew not loneliness.
Alternate Author Name(s): Moody, Helen Wills
Subject(s): Cannes, France


THE NUN AT COURT, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: With what voluptuous and distorted care
Last Line: Of luring love, and one that knew not la valliere.
Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund
Subject(s): La Valliere, Francois De (1644-1710); Louis Xiv, King Of France (1638-1715); Versailles, Frances


THE OTHER ONE, by ROBERT WILLIAM SERVICE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Gather around me, children dear
Last Line: Dearest of all, the other one.
Subject(s): Children; Paris, France; Childhood


THE PENCIL SELLER, by ROBERT WILLIAM SERVICE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A pencil, sir; a penny - won't you buy?
Last Line: I hope you'll find me, sir; good-night, good-night.
Subject(s): Begging & Beggars; Paris, France; Poverty; Salespersons; Selling


THE PETIT VIEUX, by ROBERT WILLIAM SERVICE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Sow your wild oats in your youth,' so we're always told
Last Line: Sow your nice tame oats and then . . . Hi, boys! Let 'er rip.
Subject(s): Old Age; Paris, France; Sex


THE PHILANDERER, by ROBERT WILLIAM SERVICE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Oh, have you forgotten those afternoons
Last Line: And she is the fairest girl of all.
Subject(s): Girls; Paris, France


THE PHILISTINE AND THE BOHEMIAN, by ROBERT WILLIAM SERVICE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: She was a philistine spick and span
Last Line: Don't try to pass for a philistine.
Subject(s): Bohemians; Paris, France; Philistines


THE PINE OF THE LANDES, by THEOPHILE GAUTIER    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: As the long desert downs you pass between
Last Line: Like wounded soldier dying at his post.
Alternate Author Name(s): Theo, Le Bon
Subject(s): Landes, France


THE PITEOUS BATTLE OF MONT-L'HERY, by PAUL FORT    Poem Text                    
First Line: After many a round-about they encountered man to man
Last Line: Beads beguiled he blessed the holy name, most happy and most mild.
Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; France; Nations; War; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens


THE PYRENEES, by GUILLAUME DE SALLUSTE SEIGNEUR DU BARTAS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Frenchman, halt here awhyle nor leave this land
Last Line: The eternal sweat of travail downward pourynge.
Alternate Author Name(s): Guillaume De Saluste
Subject(s): France; Spain


THE QUEEN IN FRANCE; AN ANCIENT SCOTTISH BALLAD, by WILLIAM EDMONSTOUNE AYTOUN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: It fell upon the august month
Last Line: And no thae puddock-pies!'
Alternate Author Name(s): Bon Gaultier (with Theodore Martin)
Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; France; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens


THE QUEST, by ROBERT WILLIAM SERVICE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I sought him on the purple seas
Last Line: I raised my eyes . . . And there was god.
Subject(s): Paris, France


THE RELEASE, by ROBERT WILLIAM SERVICE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Today within a grog-shop near
Last Line: Light, freedom, love. . . . Fools call it -- dying.
Subject(s): Death; Paris, France; Dead, The


THE RETURN OF JEANNE D'ARC, by GRACE HAZARD CONKLING    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Why do the vales of paradise
Last Line: It is her voice! Jeanne d'arc! Jeanne d'arc!
Variant Title(s): The Return Of Joan D'arc
Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Memory; Paris, France; Patriotism; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens


THE RETURN OF NAPOLEON FROM ST. HELENA, by LYDIA HUNTLEY SIGOURNEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Ho! City of the gay!
Last Line: And what thy god's to thee?
Subject(s): Napoleon I (1769-1821); Paris, France


THE REVOLUTION, by GEORGE MEREDITH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Not yet had history's aetna smoked the skies
Last Line: That she had been in travail of a man.
Subject(s): France; Revolutions; War


THE ROAD TO AVIGNON, by AMY LOWELL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A minstrel stands on a marble stair
Last Line: One morning in the spring.
Subject(s): Avignon, France


THE ROAD TO DIEPPE, by JOHN FINLEY (1874-)    Poem Text                    
First Line: Before I knew, the dawn was on the road
Last Line: Forget long hates in one consummate faith.
Subject(s): Dieppe, France; World War I; First World War


THE ROAD TO FRANCE, by DANIEL MACINTYRE HENDERSON    Poem Text                    
First Line: Thank god, our liberating lance
Last Line: See, with what proud hearts we advance to france!
Subject(s): France; Patriotism; World War I; First World War


THE SALLE MONTESQUIEU; A PARISIAN REMINISCENCE, by WILLIAM ALLEN BUTLER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: From the doors of the trois freres provenceaux
Last Line: And her shrine is the salle montesquieu!
Subject(s): Charm; Paris, France; Women


THE SEWING-GIRL, by ROBERT WILLIAM SERVICE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The humble garret where I dwell
Last Line: To hear her singing, singing, singing.
Subject(s): Paris, France; Sewing


THE SHAN VAN VOCHT (THE POOR OLD WOMAN) (1), by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                
First Line: Oh! The french are on the sea
Last Line: Then hurra for liberty! / says the shan van vocht
Subject(s): Freedom;ireland;navy - France; Liberty;irish;french Navy


THE SHAN VAN VOCHT (THE POOR OLD WOMAN) (2), by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Oh boney's on the sea
Last Line: Says the shan van vocht
Subject(s): Freedom;ireland;navy - France; Liberty;irish;french Navy


THE SIGHTLESS MAN, by ROBERT WILLIAM SERVICE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Out of the night a crash
Last Line: And our night is lost in the greater night.
Subject(s): Blindness; Paris, France; Physical Disabilities; Visually Handicapped; Handicapped; Handicaps; Physically Challenged; Cripples


THE SKAITH OF GUILLARDUN: 75, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE    Poem Text                    
First Line: But destiny swoop'd darkling on their course
Last Line: Thus only might they for such sin atone.
Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles
Subject(s): France; Sailing & Sailors; Sea Voyages; Travel; Journeys; Trips


THE SMILE OF REIMS, by FLORENCE EARLE COATES    Poem Text                    
First Line: The smile' they called her, - 'la sourire'; and fair
Last Line: Thy smile, heroic france, love-given and immortal!
Subject(s): France; Smiles


THE SOUL OF JEANNE D'ARC, by THEODOSIA (PICKERING) GARRISON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: She came not into the presence
Last Line: "my captain! Oh, my captain, let me go back!"" she said."
Alternate Author Name(s): Faulks, Frederick J., Mrs.
Subject(s): Joan Of Arc (1412-1431); World War I - France


THE SPARROW'S SKULL, by RUTH PITTER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The kingdoms fall in sequence, like the waves on the shore
Last Line: Into the heart of terror, to find myself in thee.
Subject(s): France


THE SPHINX OF THE TUILERIES, by JOHN MILTON HAY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Out of the latin quarter
Last Line: God is not mocked forever.
Subject(s): Paris, France


THE STORY OF LOUIS XI, by PAUL FORT    Poem Text                    
First Line: Louis xi, for trifles fain, I love you, curious man. Dear chafferer in
Last Line: About his tattered hood ran a silver hem of moonlight fair.
Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; France; Love; Praise; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens


THE STUDENT, by MARIANNE MOORE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In america everybody must have a degree,' the french man
Subject(s): Schools; Education; France; United States; Students; America


THE SUGAR-CANE: THE SHAME OF FRANCE, by JAMES GRAINGER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: False gallia's sons, that hoe the ocean isles
Last Line: And, with abhorrence, reprobate the name.
Subject(s): France; Grocers; Plants; Salespersons; Sugar; Planting; Planters; Selling


THE THIEF AND THE CORDELIER, by MATTHEW PRIOR    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: Who has e'er been at paris must needs know the greve
Last Line: Derry down, etc.
Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Death; Paris, France; Dead, The


THE THIRD OF FEBRUARY, 1852, by ALFRED TENNYSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: My lords, we heard you speak; you told us all
Last Line: And hold against the world this honor of the land.
Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron
Subject(s): France; Freedom; Napoleon Iii (1808-1873); Liberty


THE THISTLE; A LEGENDARY BALLAD, by GEORGE MURRAY (1830-1910)    Poem Text                    
First Line: Twas midnight! Darkness, like the gloom of some funereal pall
Last Line: Hath scotland's honour tarnished been—god grant it ne'er may be!
Subject(s): France; Night; Scotland; Thistles; War; Bedtime


THE THREE TOMMIES, by ROBERT WILLIAM SERVICE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: That barret, the painter of pictures, what feeling for colour he had
Last Line: To three grim and gory tommies, down, down on your bended knees!
Subject(s): Paris, France; War


THE TOILET OF CONSTANCE, by JEAN FRANCOIS CASIMIR DELAVIGNE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Haste, anna! Did you hear me call?
Last Line: At the ambassador's of france.
Alternate Author Name(s): Delavigne, Casimir
Subject(s): Accidents; Dancing & Dancers; France; Youth


THE TWA BULLS, by WILLIAM D. LATTO    Poem Text                    
First Line: The parlance ended, monk confounded
Last Line: An honour to their fatherland.
Subject(s): Louis Xiv, King Of France (1638-1715); Monks; Pope, Alexander (1688-1744); Religion; Theology


THE TWA JOCKS, by ROBERT WILLIAM SERVICE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Says bauldy macgreegor frae gleska tae hecky maccrimmon
Last Line: "she'll wush that loch lefen wass whuskey,"" says hecky maccrimmon frae skye."
Subject(s): Paris, France


THE UNBORN BABE, by ROBERT WILLIAM SERVICE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The spirit of the unborn babe peered through the windowpane
Last Line: May be the blackest sins of all are selfishness and fear.
Subject(s): Children; Paris, France; Pregnancy; Childhood


THE UNSCARRED FIGHTER REMEMBERS FRANCE, by KENNETH SLADE ALLING    Poem Text                    
First Line: That amazing holiday
Last Line: Standing by an open grave.
Subject(s): France; Soldiers


THE VALLEY OF THE BLUE SHROUDS, by JOHN FINLEY (1874-)    Poem Text                    
First Line: O shards of walls that once held precious life
Last Line: But rises as thy soul, immortal france!
Subject(s): World War I - France


THE VIGIL OF THE POET, by PAUL FORT    Poem Text                    
First Line: Pensive, from the high esplanade I stretch my hand, that of a god
Last Line: Resurrected soul I ope to greet resuscitated france!
Subject(s): France; Poetry & Poets


THE VIGILS OF CHARLES VII, SELECTION, by MARTIAL D'AUVERGNE    Poem Text                    
First Line: In those old times no recollection lies
Last Line: With which the dogs and pages are content.
Subject(s): Charles Vii, King Of France (1403-1461)


THE VOLUNTEER, by THOMAS HOOD    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Twas in that memorable year
Last Line: A martial epigram.
Subject(s): Great Britain - Relations With France; Soldiers


THE WALKERS, by ROBERT WILLIAM SERVICE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Walking, walking, oh, the joy of walking!
Last Line: God in heaven help me as I walk, walk, walk!
Subject(s): Paris, France; Wandering & Wanderers


THE WANDERER: 2. IN FRANCE: 'PRENSUS IN AEGAEO', by EDWARD ROBERT BULWER-LYTTON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Tis toil must help us to forget
Last Line: And leads me...Whither? Whither?
Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Owen; Lytton, 1st Earl Of; Lytton, Robert
Subject(s): France; Travel; Journeys; Trips


THE WANDERER: 2. IN FRANCE: A L'ENTRESOL, by EDWARD ROBERT BULWER-LYTTON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: One circle of all its golden hours
Last Line: And the ghost of a dream I dreamed!
Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Owen; Lytton, 1st Earl Of; Lytton, Robert
Subject(s): France; Travel; Journeys; Trips


THE WANDERER: 2. IN FRANCE: A REMEMBRANCE, by EDWARD ROBERT BULWER-LYTTON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Twas eve and may when last, through tears
Last Line: An age ago!
Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Owen; Lytton, 1st Earl Of; Lytton, Robert
Subject(s): France; Travel; Journeys; Trips


THE WANDERER: 2. IN FRANCE: ADIEU, MIGNONNE, MA BELLE, by EDWARD ROBERT BULWER-LYTTON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Adieu, mignonne, ma belle -- when you are gone
Last Line: The poor thing's slumber. Let it still sleep on!
Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Owen; Lytton, 1st Earl Of; Lytton, Robert
Subject(s): France; Travel; Journeys; Trips


THE WANDERER: 2. IN FRANCE: ASTARTE, by EDWARD ROBERT BULWER-LYTTON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: When the latest strife is lost, and all is done with
Last Line: Mid the spirits that are passed beyond the sun.
Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Owen; Lytton, 1st Earl Of; Lytton, Robert
Subject(s): France; Travel; Journeys; Trips


THE WANDERER: 2. IN FRANCE: AT HOME AFTER THE BALL, by EDWARD ROBERT BULWER-LYTTON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The clocks are calling three
Last Line: Some women have gone mad.
Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Owen; Lytton, 1st Earl Of; Lytton, Robert
Subject(s): France; Travel; Journeys; Trips


THE WANDERER: 2. IN FRANCE: AT HOME DURING THE BALL, by EDWARD ROBERT BULWER-LYTTON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Tis hard upon the dawn, and yet
Last Line: Have beds below the willow!
Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Owen; Lytton, 1st Earl Of; Lytton, Robert
Subject(s): France; Travel; Journeys; Trips


THE WANDERER: 2. IN FRANCE: AU CAFE ***, by EDWARD ROBERT BULWER-LYTTON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A party of friends, all light-hearted and gay
Last Line: In thy heart lurks a weird necromancer -- 't is thought.
Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Owen; Lytton, 1st Earl Of; Lytton, Robert
Subject(s): France; Paris, France; Parties; Travel; Journeys; Trips


THE WANDERER: 2. IN FRANCE: AUX ITALIENS, by EDWARD ROBERT BULWER-LYTTON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: At paris, it was, at the opera there
Last Line: Non ti scordar di me!
Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Owen; Lytton, 1st Earl Of; Lytton, Robert
Variant Title(s): At The Opera
Subject(s): Courtship; France; Opera; Travel; Journeys; Trips


THE WANDERER: 2. IN FRANCE: COMPENSATION, by EDWARD ROBERT BULWER-LYTTON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: When the days are silent all
Last Line: "shall a voice still moan...""remember!"
Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Owen; Lytton, 1st Earl Of; Lytton, Robert
Subject(s): France; Travel; Journeys; Trips


THE WANDERER: 2. IN FRANCE: MADAME LA MARQUISE, by EDWARD ROBERT BULWER-LYTTON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The folds of her wine-dark violet dress
Last Line: ...Is it worth while to guess at all this?
Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Owen; Lytton, 1st Earl Of; Lytton, Robert
Subject(s): France; Travel; Journeys; Trips


THE WANDERER: 2. IN FRANCE: PROGRESS, by EDWARD ROBERT BULWER-LYTTON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: When liberty lives loud on every lip
Last Line: Even to thyself?
Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Owen; Lytton, 1st Earl Of; Lytton, Robert
Subject(s): France; Freedom; Travel; Liberty; Journeys; Trips


THE WANDERER: 2. IN FRANCE: SONG, by EDWARD ROBERT BULWER-LYTTON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: If sorrow have taught me anything
Last Line: For truth, these tears are true!
Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Owen; Lytton, 1st Earl Of; Lytton, Robert
Subject(s): France; Grief; Travel; Sorrow; Sadness; Journeys; Trips


THE WANDERER: 2. IN FRANCE: SORCERY, by EDWARD ROBERT BULWER-LYTTON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: You're a milk-white panther
Last Line: Night is coming forth. Arise!
Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Owen; Lytton, 1st Earl Of; Lytton, Robert
Subject(s): France; Travel; Journeys; Trips


THE WANDERER: 2. IN FRANCE: TERRA INCOGNITA, by EDWARD ROBERT BULWER-LYTTON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: How sweet it is to sit beside her
Last Line: Cold, unspotted, let her go!
Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Owen; Lytton, 1st Earl Of; Lytton, Robert
Subject(s): France; Love - Unrequited; Travel; Journeys; Trips


THE WANDERER: 2. IN FRANCE: THE CHESSBOARD, by EDWARD ROBERT BULWER-LYTTON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: My little love, do you remember
Last Line: Play chess, as then we played together.
Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Owen; Lytton, 1st Earl Of; Lytton, Robert
Subject(s): Chess; France; Love - Beginnings; Travel; Journeys; Trips


THE WANDERER: 2. IN FRANCE: THE LAST REMONSTRANCE, by EDWARD ROBERT BULWER-LYTTON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Yes! I am worse than thou didst once believe me
Last Line: Still loving thee.
Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Owen; Lytton, 1st Earl Of; Lytton, Robert
Subject(s): France; Love; Travel; Journeys; Trips


THE WANDERER: 2. IN FRANCE: THE NOVEL, by EDWARD ROBERT BULWER-LYTTON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Here, I have a book at last
Last Line: And you have not learned to read it.
Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Owen; Lytton, 1st Earl Of; Lytton, Robert
Subject(s): Books; France; Love - Unrequited; Travel; Reading; Journeys; Trips


THE WANDERER: 2. IN FRANCE: THE PORTRAIT, by EDWARD ROBERT BULWER-LYTTON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Midnight past! Not a sound of aught
Last Line: For each pearl my eyes have wept.
Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Owen; Lytton, 1st Earl Of; Lytton, Robert
Subject(s): Disappointment; France; Grief; Love; Travel; Sorrow; Sadness; Journeys; Trips


THE WANDERER: 2. IN FRANCE: TO MIGNONNE, by EDWARD ROBERT BULWER-LYTTON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: At morning, from the sunlight
Last Line: Things must rest so.
Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Owen; Lytton, 1st Earl Of; Lytton, Robert
Subject(s): France; Travel; Journeys; Trips


THE WEE SHOP, by ROBERT WILLIAM SERVICE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: She risked her all, they told me, bravely sinking
Last Line: She coughs a lot -- she hasn't long to live.
Subject(s): Paris, France; Sickness; Illness


THE WHITE PEACOCK, by STEPHEN VINCENT BENET    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Go away!
Last Line: And spreads to a pool on the floor.
Subject(s): Birds; France; Peacocks


THE WIFE, by ROBERT WILLIAM SERVICE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Tell annie I'll be home in time
Last Line: "o god! Thy world is glorified."
Subject(s): Death; Paris, France; War; Dead, The


THE WISTFUL ONE, by ROBERT WILLIAM SERVICE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I sought the trails of south and north
Last Line: "you'll have it -- when you're dead."
Subject(s): Bohemians; Paris, France


THE WONDERER, by ROBERT WILLIAM SERVICE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I wish that I could understand
Last Line: The wonder and the awe of god.
Subject(s): Paris, France


THE WOOD, by CHARLOTTE BRONTE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: But two miles more, and then we rest
Last Line: We'll pass, as god shall please.
Alternate Author Name(s): Bell, Currer
Subject(s): France


THEY ARE NOT YET DEAD, by ALFRED FRANCIS KREYMBORG    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Subject(s): France


THIERRY AND THEODORET, by FRANCIS BEAUMONT    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Tax me with these hot taintures
Last Line: Encourage us, and give our poet bays.
Subject(s): Theuderic Ii, King Of France (d. 613); Thierry Ii


THINKING OF GAUGUIN, by MARJORIE AGOSIN    Poem Source                    
First Line: It was the time of fertile afternoons
Last Line: I gave you my ear of wheat
Subject(s): France; Gauguin, Paul (1848-1903); Love


THREE MOMENTS IN PARIS: 1. ONE O'CLOCK AT NIGHT, by MINA LOY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Though you have never possessed me
Last Line: Wants to go to bed
Alternate Author Name(s): Cravan, Arthur, Mrs.; Lowy, Mina Gertrude; Haweis, Stephen, Mrs.
Subject(s): Paris, France; Women


THREE MOMENTS IN PARIS: 2. CAFE DU NEANT, by MINA LOY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Little tapers lighted leaning diagonally
Alternate Author Name(s): Cravan, Arthur, Mrs.; Lowy, Mina Gertrude; Haweis, Stephen, Mrs.
Subject(s): Paris, France


THREE MOMENTS IN PARIS: 2. CAFE DU NEANT, by MINA LOY    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Little tapers lighted leaning diagonally
Last Line: Prophetically blossoms in perfect putrefaction %yet there are cabs outside the door
Alternate Author Name(s): Cravan, Arthur, Mrs.; Lowy, Mina Gertrude; Haweis, Stephen, Mrs.
Subject(s): Paris, France


THREE MOMENTS IN PARIS: 3. MAGASINS DU LOUVRE, by MINA LOY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: All the virgin eyes in the world are made of glass
Alternate Author Name(s): Cravan, Arthur, Mrs.; Lowy, Mina Gertrude; Haweis, Stephen, Mrs.
Subject(s): Paris, France


THREE MOMENTS IN PARIS: 3. MAGASINS DU LOUVRE, by MINA LOY    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: All the virgin eyes in the world are made of glass
Last Line: Having surprised a gesture that is ultimately intimate %all the virgin eyes in the world are made of
Alternate Author Name(s): Cravan, Arthur, Mrs.; Lowy, Mina Gertrude; Haweis, Stephen, Mrs.
Subject(s): Paris, France


TO A READER OF BRANTOME, by HUGH WESTERN    Poem Text                    
First Line: As marble white and blue-veined like the snow
Last Line: Gold that has matched and put to shame the sun.
Subject(s): France


TO A REPUBLICAN FRIEND, 1848, CONTINUED, by MATTHEW ARNOLD    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Yet, when I muse on what life is, I seem
Last Line: Shall be left standing face to face with god.
Subject(s): France; Pessimism


TO BELGIUM, by EDEN PHILLPOTTS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Champion of human honour, let us lave
Last Line: Little no more, but infinitely great.
Subject(s): World War I - France


TO DR. AIKIN, by ANNA LETITIA BARBAULD    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Within the cot the muses love
Last Line: To bless the cot the muses love!
Alternate Author Name(s): Aikin, Anna Letitia
Subject(s): France; Love - Erotic


TO FRANCE, by GLADYS CROMWELL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Oh, still I dream of thee, my france
Last Line: With his, whose loving arms enfold the skies!
Subject(s): France; Nations


TO FRANCE, by HERBERT JONES    Poem Text                    
First Line: Those who have stood for thy cause when the dark was around thee
Last Line: And all who have loved thee, they rise and salute and revere thee!
Subject(s): World War I - France


TO FRANCE, by FREDERICK GEORGE SCOTT    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: What is the gift we have given thee, sister?
Last Line: Hail thee as sister and queen evermore.
Alternate Author Name(s): Scott, F. G.
Subject(s): World War I - France


TO GALLANT FRANCE, by GEORGIA DOUGLAS JOHNSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The lord himself died on the cross
Last Line: Shall rise in victory!
Alternate Author Name(s): Tremaine, John
Subject(s): France; World War Ii; Second World War


TO LAURA, ON THE FRENCH FLEET PARADING BEFORE PLYMOUTH, 1779, by ANN THOMAS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Our ears were stunned with noisy drum
Last Line: I'll only say I am thy friend.
Subject(s): American Revolution; Fraser, Simon (1726-1782); Navy - France; French Navy


TO M. GRETRY, by VOLTAIRE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Your songs paris honoured of late
Last Line: Are so often such very great ears.
Alternate Author Name(s): Arouet, Francoise Marie
Subject(s): Criticism & Critics; Paris, France; Singing & Singers


TO THE NECROPHILE, by WALTER CONRAD ARENSBERG    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: With love are you gone mad, o lover of france
Last Line: "not yours the human vow: ""till death us part!"
Subject(s): Disdain; France; Marriage; World War I; Scorn; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; First World War


TO THE SEAMEN, by JOHN MASEFIELD    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: You seamen, I have eaten your hard bread
Last Line: And ships will dip their colours in salute %to you, henceforth, when passing zuydecoote
Alternate Author Name(s): Masefield, John Edward
Subject(s): Dunkirk, France; World War Ii


TO WOUNDED FRANCE, by ANDRE GERMAIN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Land of my birth, basket laden with all the fruits of life
Last Line: Fragrance dissolved, your shattered diadem!
Alternate Author Name(s): Cendre, Lois
Subject(s): Cities; France; Travel; Urban Life; Journeys; Trips


TOMBE DES ANGLAIS, by HAGAR PAUL    Poem Text                    
First Line: Sleep, in this forest plot
Last Line: This side of heaven.
Subject(s): Death; France; Sacrifices; Soldiers; War; Dead, The


TOWARD LILLERS, by IVOR GURNEY    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: In october marching, taking the sweet air
Last Line: As the heroes of marathon their renown we know
Subject(s): Lillers, France; World War I


TOWARDS DEMOCRACY: PART 3. FROM TURIN TO PARIS, by EDWARD CARPENTER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Tireless, hour after hour, over mountain plains and rivers
Last Line: And the glitter and the roar already, and the rush of the life of paris.
Subject(s): Paris, France; Railroads; Tourists; Travel; Railways; Trains; Journeys; Trips


TRANSIT MUNDUS, by PIERRE DE RONSARD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Another winter comes. The last comes soon, I know
Last Line: Though after me one come, and take the abandoned place.
Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Fortune; France; Life; Moon; Winter


TRISTRAM OF LYONESSE: 3. TRISTRAM IN BRITTANY, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: As the dawn loves the sunlight I love thee;'
Last Line: So dawned the moonrise of their marriage night.
Subject(s): Brittany, France; Love; Marriage; Moon; Sea; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Ocean


TRISTRAM OF LYONESSE: 7. THE WIFE'S VIGIL, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: But all that year in brittany forlorn
Last Line: All round her not of darkness, but of death
Subject(s): Brittany, France; God; Hell; Love


UNSATISFACTORY DREAM, by JAMES LAUGHLIN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Why did you elude me last night
Last Line: Rodin - no it wasn't an illusion
Subject(s): Dreams; Paris, France


VALLEJO IN PARIS, by EDWARD FIELD    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Among the french
Last Line: It's my foreign accent that marks me out, / makes me irresistable
Alternate Author Name(s): Elliot, Bruce
Subject(s): Paris, France


VAUCLUSE, by WILLIAM ALLEN BUTLER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Less because petrarch and his muse have made
Last Line: The listening tracts of time with ceaseless tides of song!
Subject(s): Vaucluse, France


VAUCLUSE, by JAMES GATES PERCIVAL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The laurel throws its locks around thy grave
Last Line: With all a torrent's grandeur to the deep.
Subject(s): Vaucluse, France


VENDEMIAIRE, by GUILLAUME APOLLINAIRE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Remember me you men in years to come
Last Line: With the fading stars dawn was about to break
Alternate Author Name(s): Kostrowitzky, Wilhelm Apollina
Subject(s): Drinks & Drinking; Paris, France; Wine


VENDREDI SAINT, by LEWIS MORRIS (1833-1907)    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: This is paris, the beautiful city
Last Line: This, too, was our brother.
Subject(s): Paris, France


VERNISSAGE, by ARCHIBALD MACLEISH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: On the opening day of the automobile show
Alternate Author Name(s): Fleming, Archibald
Subject(s): Automobiles; France; Cars


VERSAILLES, by ROWLAND EYLES EGERTON-WARBURTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: One day at versailles the great louis survey'd
Last Line: "is remov'd, as we see, but the wind is there still."
Alternate Author Name(s): Egerton-warburton, R. E.
Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; France; Windmills; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens


VETERAN, by ANDREW MOTION    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis         Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
First Line: Across the field, the wood
Subject(s): D Day (june 6, 1944); Veterans; World War Ii; Normandy (france), Invasion Of; Second World War


VIA SACRA: TO A FRENCH FRIEND, by ARTHUR THOMAS QUILLER-COUCH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Thou that in years to come shalt tread this sacred way
Last Line: Hark! Up the avenue, the nightride of the maid!
Alternate Author Name(s): Q; Quiller-couch, A. T.
Subject(s): France; Patriotism; Roads; Paths; Trails


VICHY, by DUDLEY G. DAVIES    Poem Source                    
First Line: These men lost heart and hope, let faith grow cold
Last Line: Then that false brood shall creep and crawl from sight, %like jackals at the first return of light
Subject(s): France; World War Ii


VICTOR HUGO (1802-1902), by HENRY VAN DYKE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Heart of france for a hundred years
Last Line: Victor, forever victor, the whole world hails you!
Alternate Author Name(s): Civis Americanus
Subject(s): France; Hugo, Victor (1802-1885)


VICTORY, by ALFRED NOYES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Before those golden altar-lights we stood
Last Line: There's but one way. God make us better men.
Subject(s): Crosses; Death; Fame; France; Love; Victory; Dead, The; Reputation


VICTORY STUFF, by ROBERT WILLIAM SERVICE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: What d'ye think, lad, what d'ye think
Last Line: Me that's wheeled in a chair.
Subject(s): Loss; Paris, France; Physical Disabilities; Survival; Victory; War; Handicapped; Handicaps; Physically Challenged; Cripples


VIVE LA FRANCE, by OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The land of sunshine and of song!
Last Line: God bless her! Vive la france!
Subject(s): France


VIVE LA FRANCE!, by CHARLOTTE HOLMES CRAWFORD    Poem Text                    
First Line: Franceline rose in the dawning gray
Last Line: "vive la france!"
Subject(s): Patriotism; World War I - France


VIVEROLS, by DAVID STARR JORDAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Beyond the sea, I know not where
Last Line: There is no other viverols.
Subject(s): Viverols, France


VOYAGE EN PROVENCE, by ARCHIBALD MACLEISH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The birds in the gardens of avignon
Alternate Author Name(s): Fleming, Archibald
Subject(s): Provence, France


VOYAGE EN PROVENCE, by ARCHIBALD MACLEISH    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The birds in the gardens of avignon
Alternate Author Name(s): Fleming, Archibald
Subject(s): Provence, France


WAS IT YOU?, by ROBERT WILLIAM SERVICE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Hullo, young jones! With your tie so gay
Last Line: "which is the me and the you?"
Subject(s): Paris, France; War


WE ARE WITH FRANCE, by RICHARD THOMAS LE GALLIENNE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: We are with france-not by the ties
Last Line: And leave our grown-up cares behind.
Subject(s): France; World War I; First World War


WHAT PEOPLE SAY ABOUT PARIS, by KENNETH KOCH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: They often begin by saying, 'paris! How I wish I were there!'
Subject(s): Paris, France


WHAT PEOPLE SAY ABOUT PARIS, by KENNETH KOCH    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: They often begin by saying, 'paris! How I wish I were there!'
Subject(s): Paris, France


WHEN BELLS WERE NAMED, by COLE SWENSEN    Poem Source                    
First Line: And wake up to %the hour of the bells each one and then rang
Last Line: Music at it most refined) the raised hand waved, it %rang
Subject(s): Berry (france); Book Of Hours; Catholic Church - Liturgy; Church Year; Fifteenth Century - Poetry; Manuscripts, Latin (medieval And Modern); Months; Tres Riches Heures Du Duc De Berry


WHERE DID LOVE GO?, by STEPHEN SARTARELLI    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: One notable casualty of the
Subject(s): Diplomacy & Diplomats: Iraq War (2003); United States; France; America


WHY DO YOU WHISPER THE SECRET, by MARJORIE AGOSIN    Poem Source                    
Last Line: I will hide you in the south of france, naked, %sheltered from oblivion
Subject(s): France; Secrets


WIND OF PROVENCE, by EDMUND WILLIAM GOSSE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: O wind of provence, subtle wind that blows
Last Line: O wind of provence, shall I call in vain?
Subject(s): Provence, France


WINTRY PARIS, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: "oh, the dingy winter days"
Last Line: When contrasted with the blues I had in paris
Subject(s): "new York City;paris, France;winter;" "manhattan;new York, New York;the Big Apple;


WITH COLORS GAY, by HOWARD S. ABBOTT    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: With colors gay, adown the street
Last Line: With colors gay.
Subject(s): France; Marching & Marches; Soldiers


WRITTEN AT CAUDEBEC IN NORMANDY, by ARTHUR HENRY HALLAM    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: When life is crazy in my limbs
Last Line: On the pleasant banks of seine.
Subject(s): Normandy, France


WRITTEN AT PARIS. MDCC, by MATTHEW PRIOR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Of all that william rules, or robe
Last Line: And thy petitioner shall pray.
Subject(s): Death; Gardens & Gardening; Life; Paris, France; Dead, The


WRITTEN IN MONTAIGNE'S ESSAYS, by MATTHEW PRIOR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Dictate, o mighty judge, what thou hast seen
Last Line: While talbot tells the world, where montaigne erred.
Subject(s): Cities; England; France; Judges; Wisdom; Urban Life; English


WRITTEN IN THE BEGINNING OF MEZERAY'S HISTORY OF FRANCE, by MATTHEW PRIOR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Whate'er thy countrymen have done
Last Line: Unwilling to retire, though weary.
Subject(s): Fame; France; History; Life; Pain; Reputation; Historians; Suffering; Misery


YANKEE DOODLE'S EXPEDITION TO RHODE ISLAND, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: "from lewis, monsieur gerard, came"
Last Line: "for clinton's name alarmed his mind, / and made him stir his stumps, sir"
Subject(s): "american Revolution;navy - France;newport, Rhode Island;" French Navy


YELLOW AND GRAY, by AUGUST H. MASON    Poem Text                    
First Line: Evreux, lisieux, caen
Last Line: The sandals of the sun.
Subject(s): France; Towns


ZONE, by GUILLAUME APOLLINAIRE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: In the end you are weary of this ancient world
Alternate Author Name(s): Kostrowitzky, Wilhelm Apollina
Subject(s): Paris, France; World War I; First World War


ZONE, by GUILLAUME APOLLINAIRE    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: After all you are weary of this oldtime world
Last Line: Sun cut throat
Alternate Author Name(s): Kostrowitzky, Wilhelm Apollina
Subject(s): Paris, France; World War I; First World War


ZONE, by GUILLAUME APOLLINAIRE    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: You're tired of this old world at last
Last Line: Sun throat cut
Alternate Author Name(s): Kostrowitzky, Wilhelm Apollina
Subject(s): Paris, France; World War I


ZONE, by GUILLAUME APOLLINAIRE    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: At last you're tired of this elderly world
Last Line: Situated in paris between the rue aumont-thieville and the avenue des ternes
Alternate Author Name(s): Kostrowitzky, Wilhelm Apollina
Subject(s): Paris, France; World War I


ZONE, by GUILLAUME APOLLINAIRE    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: You have grown weary of a world effete
Alternate Author Name(s): Kostrowitzky, Wilhelm Apollina
Subject(s): Paris, France; World War I


ZONE, by GUILLAUME APOLLINAIRE    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Now the time comes when you are bored with antiquity
Last Line: Neck of the sun cut
Alternate Author Name(s): Kostrowitzky, Wilhelm Apollina
Subject(s): Paris, France; World War I


ZONE, by GUILLAUME APOLLINAIRE    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: In the end you are weary of this ancient world
Last Line: The lowly christs of dim expectancies %adieu adieu %sun corseless head
Alternate Author Name(s): Kostrowitzky, Wilhelm Apollina
Subject(s): Paris, France; World War I