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Subject: FRANCE Matches Found: 812 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` "SIR DILBERRY DIDDLE, CAPTAIN OF MILITIA; EXCELLENT NEW SONG", by ANONYMOUS Poem Text 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 themwella 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-twoso 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 allthey 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 thundershe 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 morguewith 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 endingand 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 beengod 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 |
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