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Subject: SEINE (RIVER), FRANCE
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` 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


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


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


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 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


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


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


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


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


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)


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


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