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Discover our poem explanations - click here!Searching... Author: gautier, theophile Matches Found: 60 Gautier, Theophile Poet's Biography Alternate Author Name(s): Theo, Le Bon 60 poems available by this author AN INVITATION Poem Text First Line: Tell me, pretty one, where will you sail? Last Line: I'm afraid! Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Sailing & Sailors; Male-female Relations; Seamen; Sails ART Poem Text First Line: All things are doubly fair Last Line: On the unyielding flint. Subject(s): Art & Artists ART Poem Text First Line: All finest art is seen Last Line: In stuff that will not yield! Subject(s): Art & Artists ART Poem Text First Line: All things are doubly fair Last Line: On the unyielding flint. Subject(s): Art & Artists ART First Line: Yes, artwork is better Last Line: In the block that resists Subject(s): Art And Artists BARCAROLLE First Line: Dites, la jeune belle!' BOAT SONG Poem Text First Line: Tell me, lovely girl Last Line: "forelands of the heart." Subject(s): Boats; Love CARMEN First Line: Carmen is thin, her gypsy eyes Last Line: Leaping out of the bitter sea CARMEN First Line: Carmen is thin, with draggled locks CARMEN First Line: Carmen is thin - a touch of blister Last Line: Nude venus of the bitter deep CHOC DE CAVALIERS First Line: Hier il m'a semble (sans doute j'etais ivre) CHRISTMAS Poem Text First Line: The heavens are black, the earth is white Last Line: "sing to the shepherds, ""christ is born." Subject(s): Christmas; Jesus Christ; Nativity, The CLARIMONDE Poem Text First Line: With elbow buried in the downy pillow Last Line: Thou owest to me? Subject(s): Death; Love - Loss Of; Solitude; Dead, The; Loneliness DEPARTURE OF THE SWALLOWS First Line: The rain-drops plash, and the dead leaves fall DESOLATION Poem Text First Line: In the forest bleak and lonely Last Line: Come and sing above my tomb! Subject(s): Birds; Death; Desolation; Graves; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones DON JUAN Poem Text First Line: Heureux adolescents dont le coeur s'ouvre Subject(s): Don Juan ESCURIAL First Line: Set as a challenge at the mountain's table GOOD-BYE POETRY First Line: Go, fallen angel, let your bright wings close Last Line: And place upon her brow a farewell kiss! HER TOYS First Line: My little friend marie has died Last Line: Toys that the angel has abandoned; %the cradle emptied in the tomb Subject(s): Love HIPPOPOTAMUS First Line: The broad-bellied hippopotamus IN FUTURO Poem Text First Line: E'en now, from mountain or from plain Last Line: My heart shall mingle with the clod. Subject(s): Coffins; Death; Future; Graves; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones INTERIORS Poem Text First Line: When panels creak mysteriously swayed Last Line: Begins, through heaven, his glorious course to run. LA MELODIE ET L'ACCOMPAGNEMENT First Line: La beaute, dans la femme, est une melodie LAST SIGH OF THE MOOR Poem Text First Line: The cavalier who hastes the height to gain LE MONDE EST MECHANT Poem Text First Line: The world is malevolent dear Last Line: What feeling and wit you display! Subject(s): Earth; Man-woman Relationships; World; Male-female Relations LE TRIOMPHE DE PETRARQUE, SELS. First Line: Let the flame be fed on the altar of the ideal Last Line: And you will have on your forehead the crown and the star LOVE AT SEA Poem Text First Line: We are in love's land today Last Line: Imitated from theophile gautier. Subject(s): Love; Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Wind; Seamen; Sails; Ocean LOVE AT SEA First Line: We are in love's land today MEDITATION Poem Text First Line: O heart's fair innocence so quickly fled away Last Line: The rose lives but an hour—the cypress many years. MELANCHOLIE, SELS. First Line: The soul of bitterness, filled with disgust Last Line: Blonde scattered locks across her shoulders curled Subject(s): Art And Artists; Durer, Albrecht (1471-1528); Engraving And Engravers; Melancholy NOTRE DAME Poem Text First Line: Often at evening, when the summer sun Subject(s): Notre Dame Cathedral, Paris ON THE SIERRA Poem Text First Line: I love the glorious mountains, proud and bleak Last Line: So far from heaven, that sight of god is lost. Subject(s): Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain) POSTHUMOUS COQUETRY Poem Text First Line: Let there be laid, when I am dead Last Line: Pater and ave for my peace. Subject(s): Funerals; Love; Vanity; Burials RHYTHMIC VILLANELLE Poem Text First Line: When warmth and sunshine come again Last Line: Together found. RIBEIRA First Line: Il est des coeurs epris du triste amour du ROMANCE Poem Text First Line: Unto the land where fight and die Last Line: Wait his return from hour to hour. SONG Poem Text First Line: The butterflies that are the snow's own hue Last Line: O blossom of my soul! Subject(s): Butterflies; Desire; Flight; Insects; Love; Flying; Bugs SPECTRE OF THE ROSE First Line: Those slumbering lids unclose, where pure dreams hover so light! TERZA RIMA Poem Text First Line: When michael angelo left the sistine dome Last Line: O sublime blindness! O majestic fault! Subject(s): Art & Artists; Michelangelo Buonarroti (1475-1564); Sistine Chapel TERZA RIMA Poem Text First Line: From sixtus' fane, when michael angelo Last Line: Blindness sublime! Inestimable fault! Subject(s): Art & Artists; Michelangelo Buonarroti (1475-1564); Sistine Chapel THE BLIND MAN Poem Text First Line: As haggard as an owl by day, / a blind man through the town doth stray Last Line: Shall see distinctly in the tomb! Subject(s): Blindness; Death; Visually Handicapped; Dead, The THE CARAVAN Poem Text First Line: In the world's waste the human caravan Last Line: There, fainting pilgrim! Lie you down and rest. THE CARAVAN Poem Text First Line: Amid the world's sahara, by the path Last Line: Lie down poor, breathless pilgrims, sleep at last! THE CID AND THE JEW Poem Text First Line: The cid, stern victor in each fight Last Line: Entered a convent's gloom. Amen. Subject(s): Death; Graves; Hero-worship; Jews; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones; Judaism THE CLOUD Poem Text First Line: A cloud the far horizon scales Last Line: Over her satin shoulder slim. Subject(s): Aphrodite; Clouds; Mythology; Mythology - Classical THE DOVES Poem Text First Line: On yonder hillside, white with tombs Last Line: But vanish at the break of day. Subject(s): Doves; Dreams; Palm Trees; Nightmares THE HELLESPONT Poem Text First Line: Wave unto shore in an embrace Last Line: Gives back my thought! Subject(s): Dardanelles; Hellespont THE PHANTOM OF THE ROSE Poem Text First Line: Sweet lady, let your lids unclose Last Line: "e'en kings are jealous of its bliss." Subject(s): Flowers; Roses; Women THE PINE OF THE LANDES Poem Text First Line: As the long desert downs you pass between Last Line: Like wounded soldier dying at his post. Subject(s): Landes, France THE SPECTRE OF THE ROSE Poem Text First Line: Your silken fringed lids unclose Last Line: So blessed all kings may envy it.' Subject(s): Flowers; Roses THE SPECTURE OF THE ROSE Poem Text First Line: Those marble-lidded eyes unclose, / wake from thy sleep's angelic trance! Last Line: "e'en kings might envy for its bliss!" Subject(s): Flowers; Roses THE STREAMLET Poem Text First Line: A thread-like stream, that had its source Last Line: Died in the lake's engulfing gloom! Subject(s): Brooks; Streams; Creeks THE TERRORS OF DEATH; WRITTEN ON THE WALLS OF A CARTHUSIAN MONASTERY Poem Text First Line: Thou who dost pace this cloistered hall Last Line: Of him whose life hath been too sweet! Subject(s): Death; Future Life; Life; Dead, The; Retribution; Eternity; After Life TO A PINK DRESS First Line: How I like you in that dress Last Line: With a tunic of kisses TO ZURBARAN Poem Text First Line: Monks of zurbaran, ye carthusians white Last Line: What you have done, say, would you do again? TROIS PAYSAGISTES, SELS. First Line: But now the evening creeps down from the hills Last Line: Corot, your modest name in the black corner Subject(s): Art And Artists; Corot, Jean Baptiste Camille (1796-1875); Paintings And Painters UNKNOWN SHORES Poem Text First Line: Okay, my starsick beauty %blue jeans and tilting breasts Last Line: I do not know of such! %but come, where will you go? Subject(s): Travel VARIATIONS SUR LE CARNAVAL DE VENISE First Line: Il est un vieil air populaire WHAT THE SWALLOWS SAY Poem Text First Line: Dry leaves drop silently and cover Last Line: With swallows to eternal spring! Subject(s): Migration; Swallows; Winter WHAT THE SWALLOWS SAY, SELS. First Line: Leaves, not green but red and gold |
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