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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: PARIS, FRANCE Matches Found: 217 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` 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 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 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 Full 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 MAN TAKES HIS DAUGHTER, AGE 5, TO A PUBLIC EXECUTION BY GUILLOTINE, PARIS, 1857, by THOMAS LUX Poem Full 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 PARIS BLACKBIRD, by LAURE-ANNE BOSSELAAR Poem Full 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 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 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 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 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 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 ARMENONVILLE, by EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY Poem Full 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 THE MUSEE RODIN IN PARIS, by LAURE-ANNE BOSSELAAR Poem Full 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 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 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 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 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-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 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 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 Full 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, 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 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 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 Full 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 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 DECEMBER 24TH, PARIS - NOTRE DAME, by SANDRA CISNEROS Poem Full 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 FRENCH LESSON: HOTEL D'EUROPE, by EDWARD FIELD Poem Full 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 THE PARIS COMMUNE TO THE KRONSTADT REBELLION, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Full 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 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 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 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 Full 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 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 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 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 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 PARIS WITH YOU, by JAMES FENTON Poem Full 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 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 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 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 JANUARY IN PARIS, by BILLY COLLINS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: That winter I had nothing to do Subject(s): Paris, France 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 LO, WHERE HAUSSMANN COMES, SEE WHERE HE COMES, by KENNETH KOCH Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Haussmann, Georges-eugene (1809-1891); Paris, France; Architecture & Architects 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 Full 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 Full 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 Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: City of man Subject(s): Paris, France PARIS, by GERALD STERN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As I recall the meal I ate was liver Subject(s): Food & Eating; Paris, France; Travel; Journeys; Trips PARIS, by GERALD STERN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As I recall the meal I ate was liver Last Line: My only belief, what I went there for Subject(s): Food And Eating; Paris, France; Travel PARIS, by ARTHUR WILLIAM SYMONS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My paris is a land where twilight days Last Line: A rose's place among our memories. Subject(s): Paris, France PARIS AT NIGHT, by EDOUARD JOACHIM CORBIERE Poem Text First Line: It is the sea: dead calm - and the spring tide Last Line: On a bed of the morgue . . . With his eyes wide open! Alternate Author Name(s): Corbiere, Tristan Subject(s): Night; Paris, France; Bedtime PARIS BY DAY, by EDOUARD JOACHIM CORBIERE Poem Text First Line: See the great circle of copper shine above Last Line: Our special sustenance is our flask of gall. Alternate Author Name(s): Corbiere, Tristan Subject(s): Day; Heat; Paris, France; Poetry & Poets - French; Sun PARIS BY NIGHT, by EDOUARD JOACHIM CORBIERE Poem Text First Line: Tis the sea - calm surface. - and the great tide Last Line: On a bed of the morgue—with staring eyes. Alternate Author Name(s): Corbiere, Tristan Subject(s): Calm; Night; Paris, France; Placid; Undisturbed; Tranquility; Bedtime PARIS IN SPRING, by SARA TEASDALE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The city's all a-shining Last Line: And spring-time's come again. Alternate Author Name(s): Filsinger, Ernest B., Mrs. Subject(s): Paris, France PARIS IS A GAME OF ROULETTE, by HERBERT ZAND Poem Source Subject(s): Paris, France PARIS NOTEBOOK, SELS., by DAVID WHEATLEY Subject(s): Paris, France PARIS PLAN IN HAND, by CLARENCE MAJOR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Every day you are one and I am, too. Paris city-plan in hand Last Line: Continuously, we are two Subject(s): Paintings And Painters; Paris, France; Restaurants; Seine (river), France; Tourists; Travel PARIS SOUS LA PLUIE (AN EARLY BONNARD), by JAMES MONAHAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Each has his france; and mine's three feet by two Last Line: From their talk, in that café, in its smoke-loud air. Subject(s): Bonnard, Pierre (1867-1947); Cities; Paris, France; Travel; Urban Life; Journeys; Trips PARIS STREET SONGS: 1, by JAMES RICHARD BROUGHTON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Geraldine, geraldine Last Line: She's not pretty, she's not clean, %o I envy geraldine! Subject(s): Paris, France PARIS STREET SONGS: 2, by JAMES RICHARD BROUGHTON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Jean and jeannot and jean-michel Last Line: Jean and jeannot and jean-michel Subject(s): Paris, France PARIS YOU SENT ME, by JANET MCCONN Poem Source Last Line: The only one left open in %this off-season Subject(s): Memory; Paris, France PARIS, MAY 1ST, by HERMAN DE CONINCK Poem Source First Line: Paris, a hundred yards behind notre dame Last Line: I wish I was more of a stranger here than I am. %and this century less mine Subject(s): Paris, France PARIS, OCTOBER, 1936, by CESAR VALLEJO Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: From all of this I am the only one who leaves. Subject(s): Paris, France 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 PREGNANCY, by KENNETH KOCH Poem Full 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 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 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 PUBLIC HOLIDAY: PARIS, by JOYCE HORNER Poem Source First Line: In the picture the people stroll and stroll all day Subject(s): Paris, 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 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 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 RITOURNELLE, PARIS 1948, by MARIE PONSOT Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Down from the subtle grey sorbonne and Subject(s): Paris, France 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 SOME AMERICANS IN PARIS, by DONALD HALL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here, in the right cafe, convened by fate Subject(s): Paris, France 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 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 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 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 Full 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 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 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 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 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 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 HIDING PLACE, by JORIE GRAHAM Poem Full 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 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 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 MAGIC CARPET, by LOUIS SIMPSON Poem Full 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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: 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 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 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 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 Full 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 Full 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 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 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 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 Full 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 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 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 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 WHAT PEOPLE SAY ABOUT PARIS, by KENNETH KOCH Poem Full 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 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; 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 ZONE, by GUILLAUME APOLLINAIRE Poem Full 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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