Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, DECOR DE THEATRE: 6. AT THE AMBASSADEURS; TO YVETTE GUILBERT, by ARTHUR WILLIAM SYMONS


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DECOR DE THEATRE: 6. AT THE AMBASSADEURS; TO YVETTE GUILBERT, by                 Poet Analysis     Poet's Biography
First Line: That was yvette. The blithe ambassadeurs
Last Line: The pity of unpitied human things.
Subject(s): Guilbert, Yvette (1867-1944); Singing & Singers


That was Yvette. The blithe Ambassadeurs
Glitters, this Sunday of the Fete des Fleurs;
Here are the flowers, too, living flowers that blow
A night or two before the odours go;
And all the flowers of all the city ways
Are laughing, with Yvette, this day of days.
Laugh, with Yvette? But I must first forget,
Before I laugh, that I have heard Yvette.
For the flowers fade before her; see, the light
Dies out of that poor cheek, and leaves it white;
She sings of life, and mirth, and all that moves
Man's fancy in the carnival of loves;
And a chill shiver takes me as she sings
The pity of unpitied human things.





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