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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
PROMENADES AND INTERIORS, SELECTION, by FRANCOIS COPPEE First Line: I am writing near the lamp. It's fine weather. Pleasant stillness Last Line: Mother, blessèd among all women may you be! Subject(s): Cold; Memory; October; Weather; Writing & Writers | |||
I am writing near the lamp. It's fine weather. Pleasant stillness. In her black dress, tiny in the great armchair, Tranquil at the fireside, my mother is there. She's thinking, no doubt, of the dreadful illness That sent me away last winter—but without much worry, For I'm sensible, and stay indoors when there's a flurry. And then, remembering that an October night Can grow cold without any warning, suddenly, She puts a log where the hearth is flaming bright. ... Mother, blessèd among all women may you be! | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE CELL, SELECTION by LYN HEJINIAN OXOTA: A SHORT RUSSIAN NOVEL: CHAPTER 126: THE DOUBTING MAN by LYN HEJINIAN WAKING THE MORNING DREAMLESS AFTER LONG SLEEP by JANE HIRSHFIELD COMPULSIVE QUALIFICATIONS by RICHARD HOWARD DEUTSCH DURCH FREUD by RANDALL JARRELL LET THEM ALONE by ROBINSON JEFFERS ON BUILDING WITH STONE by ROBINSON JEFFERS AFTER THE WAR by FRANCOIS COPPEE |
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