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Subject: WATTEAU, ANTOINE (1684-1721)
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` AFTER WATTEAU, by HENRY AUSTIN DOBSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Embarquons-nous!' I seem to go
Last Line: Embarquons-nous!'
Alternate Author Name(s): Dobson, Austin
Subject(s): Art & Artists; Paintings & Painters; Watteau, Antoine (1684-1721)


CYTHERA, by DAVID FERRY    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: There they go, down to the fatal ship
Last Line: Look lovlier still compared to the angry children
Subject(s): Abandonment; Art & Artists; Children; Paintings & Painters; Watteau, Antoine (1684-1721); Desertion; Childhood


CYTHERA, by DAVID FERRY    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: There they go, down to the fatal ship
Last Line: Look lovelier still compared to the angry children
Subject(s): Abandonment; Art And Artists; Children; Paintings And Painters; Watteau, Antoine (1684-1721)


EMBARKATION FOR CYTHERA, by DAVID FERRY    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The picnic-goers beautified themselves
Last Line: Touched at his sleeve for the ace he'd hidden there
Subject(s): Art And Artists; Paintings And Painters; Watteau, Antoine (1684-1721)


FOR A PICTURE OF WATTEAU, by ARTHUR WILLIAM SYMONS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Here the vague winds have rest
Last Line: It is the end, the end.
Subject(s): Watteau, Antoine (1684-1721)


GOLDFISH (ESSENCE OF SUMMER MAGAZINES): 2. EMBARQUEMENT POUR CYTHERE, by THOMAS STEARNS ELIOT    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Ladies, the moon is on its way!
Last Line: Philosophy through a paper straw
Alternate Author Name(s): Eliot, T. S.
Subject(s): Leisure; Summer; Watteau, Antoine (1684-1721)


L'INDIFFERENT; WATTEAU; THE LOUVRE, by KATHERINE HARRIS BRADLEY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: He dances on a toe
Last Line: Who dances and must die.
Alternate Author Name(s): Field, Michael (with Edith Emma Cooper)
Subject(s): Dancing & Dancers; Watteau, Antoine (1684-1721)


THE EMBARKATION FOR CYTHERA, by DAVID FERRY    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The picnic-goers beautified themselves
Last Line: He'd hidden there
Subject(s): Art & Artists; Paintings & Painters; Watteau, Antoine (1684-1721)


THE SHOES THAT DANCED, by ANNA HEMPSTEAD BRANCH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Blossoms perish in the snow
Last Line: Even to destruction and to utter death.
Subject(s): Dancing & Dancers; Paintings & Painters; Shoes; Watteau, Antoine (1684-1721); Boots; Sneakers; Shoemakers


WATTEAU, by DEREK WALCOTT    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The amber spray of trees feather-brushed
Last Line: An empty chair echoing the emptiness
Subject(s): Watteau, Antoine (1684-1721)


WATTEAU, A DREAM, by EMILE NELLIGAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: As shepherds in the red dusk went to hurry
Last Line: Still radiant in our palaces of hay %we breakfasted on dawn and supped on stars
Subject(s): Watteau, Antoine (1684-1721)


WATTEAU, SELS., by DEREK WALCOTT    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Nothing stays green
Last Line: Of elephantine vegetation in baudelaire
Subject(s): Art And Artists; Paintings And Painters; Watteau, Antoine (1684-1721)