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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` 12-DEC, by COLE SWENSEN    Poem Source                    
First Line: And when god thought %said st. A. He thought
Last Line: You're always slightly %thinking of it
Subject(s): Berry (france); Book Of Hours; Catholic Church - Liturgy; Church Year; Fifteenth Century - Poetry; Manuscripts, Latin (medieval And Modern); Months; Tres Riches Heures Du Duc De Berry


1470: THE FIRST BOOK PRINTED IN PARIS, by COLE SWENSEN    Poem Source                    
Last Line: Was not a bible, but a book of private letters
Subject(s): Berry (france); Book Of Hours; Catholic Church - Liturgy; Church Year; Fifteenth Century - Poetry; Manuscripts, Latin (medieval And Modern); Months; Tres Riches Heures Du Duc De Berry


2-JUN, by COLE SWENSEN    Poem Source                    
First Line: The flight of red (the various)
Last Line: I was raised to a pious life %and cannot live here
Subject(s): Berry (france); Book Of Hours; Catholic Church - Liturgy; Church Year; Fifteenth Century - Poetry; Manuscripts, Latin (medieval And Modern); Months; Tres Riches Heures Du Duc De Berry


2-OCT, by COLE SWENSEN    Poem Source                    
First Line: At the center of the picture, a river
Last Line: A peeled muscle exposed to sun %cut in two. I would not choose
Subject(s): Berry (france); Book Of Hours; Catholic Church - Liturgy; Church Year; Fifteenth Century - Poetry; Manuscripts, Latin (medieval And Modern); Months; Tres Riches Heures Du Duc De Berry


24-DEC, by COLE SWENSEN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Before birth %ex patre (was the) (lumiere the pere: %tu lumen)
Last Line: Across les siecles %that licked them clean
Subject(s): Berry (france); Book Of Hours; Catholic Church - Liturgy; Church Year; Fifteenth Century - Poetry; Manuscripts, Latin (medieval And Modern); Months; Tres Riches Heures Du Duc De Berry


25-NOV, by COLE SWENSEN    Poem Source                    
First Line: There is perfect weather; you can smell it
Last Line: Heads thrown back and talking quietly to each other
Subject(s): Berry (france); Book Of Hours; Catholic Church - Liturgy; Church Year; Fifteenth Century - Poetry; Manuscripts, Latin (medieval And Modern); Months; Tres Riches Heures Du Duc De Berry


3-APR, by COLE SWENSEN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Curve %now my %love these trees, three
Last Line: Two men alone in boats
Subject(s): Berry (france); Book Of Hours; Catholic Church - Liturgy; Church Year; Fifteenth Century - Poetry; Manuscripts, Latin (medieval And Modern); Months; Tres Riches Heures Du Duc De Berry


3-MAR, by COLE SWENSEN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Father son and holy father son and only counting if it gathers
Last Line: Its own and only weather %sounds like laughter
Subject(s): Berry (france); Book Of Hours; Catholic Church - Liturgy; Church Year; Fifteenth Century - Poetry; Manuscripts, Latin (medieval And Modern); Months; Tres Riches Heures Du Duc De Berry


3-NOV, by COLE SWENSEN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Jean colombe. Stole from the cathedrals of auxerre
Last Line: Liked november, the number 11, the water at a given distance, and no castle %but that hidden by tree
Subject(s): Berry (france); Book Of Hours; Catholic Church - Liturgy; Church Year; Fifteenth Century - Poetry; Manuscripts, Latin (medieval And Modern); Months; Tres Riches Heures Du Duc De Berry


3-SEP, by COLE SWENSEN    Poem Source                    
First Line: The ellipse that leads into (sept)
Last Line: A shard of glass %dry grass in autumn
Subject(s): Berry (france); Book Of Hours; Catholic Church - Liturgy; Church Year; Fifteenth Century - Poetry; Manuscripts, Latin (medieval And Modern); Months; Tres Riches Heures Du Duc De Berry


4-FEB, by COLE SWENSEN    Poem Source                    
First Line: And this in the middle
Last Line: Of the hundred years' war
Subject(s): Berry (france); Book Of Hours; Catholic Church - Liturgy; Church Year; Fifteenth Century - Poetry; Manuscripts, Latin (medieval And Modern); Months; Tres Riches Heures Du Duc De Berry


7-JUL, by COLE SWENSEN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Because (it's said) seven heavenly bodies
Last Line: Asleep in the grass, white grass %invisible in the white light
Subject(s): Berry (france); Book Of Hours; Catholic Church - Liturgy; Church Year; Fifteenth Century - Poetry; Manuscripts, Latin (medieval And Modern); Months; Tres Riches Heures Du Duc De Berry


APRIL 1, 1411: THE BETROTHAL, by COLE SWENSEN    Poem Source                    
First Line: This is how they lived: the dialogue was staged
Last Line: All the way back from the black sea, which (they say) really is black
Subject(s): Berry (france); Book Of Hours; Catholic Church - Liturgy; Church Year; Fifteenth Century - Poetry; Manuscripts, Latin (medieval And Modern); Months; Tres Riches Heures Du Duc De Berry


APRIL 25: DAY OF ST. MARK, PATRON OF VELLUM: MANUFACTURE AND...., by COLE SWENSEN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Veined day; the daylight through
Last Line: Of the unborn calf %turning gold
Subject(s): Berry (france); Book Of Hours; Catholic Church - Liturgy; Church Year; Fifteenth Century - Poetry; Manuscripts, Latin (medieval And Modern); Months; Tres Riches Heures Du Duc De Berry


APRIL 2: FEAST DAY OF FRANCIS OF PAOLA, PATRON ...., by COLE SWENSEN    Poem Source                    
First Line: I do here suspend the here and this: %wood
Last Line: The quite of late, with the stars countable on the face of things. You get %used to these things
Subject(s): Berry (france); Book Of Hours; Catholic Church - Liturgy; Church Year; Fifteenth Century - Poetry; Manuscripts, Latin (medieval And Modern); Months; Tres Riches Heures Du Duc De Berry


APRIL 4, 1400, by COLE SWENSEN    Poem Source                    
First Line: 4=3 +1 = trinity (holy) fused to (ideal) unity (or multiplicity ruptured by
Last Line: And this at the height %of the plague
Subject(s): Berry (france); Book Of Hours; Catholic Church - Liturgy; Church Year; Fifteenth Century - Poetry; Manuscripts, Latin (medieval And Modern); Months; Tres Riches Heures Du Duc De Berry


APRIL: IN THE GARDEN, by COLE SWENSEN    Poem Source                    
First Line: The earth tilts, cracking open fields and the courtyard, %open
Last Line: Beauty is no less unlikely for having been invented
Subject(s): Berry (france); Book Of Hours; Catholic Church - Liturgy; Church Year; Fifteenth Century - Poetry; Manuscripts, Latin (medieval And Modern); Months; Tres Riches Heures Du Duc De Berry


AUGUST 1424: THE FIRST DANCE MACABRE, by COLE SWENSEN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Long line of arm in and and there on the farthest wall we are
Last Line: (you dance and we'll sing.) last until lent of the coming year
Subject(s): Berry (france); Book Of Hours; Catholic Church - Liturgy; Church Year; Fifteenth Century - Poetry; Manuscripts, Latin (medieval And Modern); Months; Tres Riches Heures Du Duc De Berry


AUGUST 1427: ABUNDANCE, by COLE SWENSEN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Item: this year. %and made so beautiful august that it made never of the age of
Last Line: Can enter. Wealth of sudden fruit, call me %whatever you want
Subject(s): Berry (france); Book Of Hours; Catholic Church - Liturgy; Church Year; Fifteenth Century - Poetry; Manuscripts, Latin (medieval And Modern); Months; Tres Riches Heures Du Duc De Berry


AUGUST 17, 1427: THE FIRST RECORD OF GYPSIES IN EUROPE, by COLE SWENSEN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Sont arrives: twelve men from basse egypt
Last Line: See you walking down a long road with enormous fields on either side, very %green
Subject(s): Berry (france); Book Of Hours; Catholic Church - Liturgy; Church Year; Fifteenth Century - Poetry; Manuscripts, Latin (medieval And Modern); Months; Tres Riches Heures Du Duc De Berry


AUGUST 1: THE OUTING, by COLE SWENSEN    Poem Source                    
First Line: (all this shall someday be %birds: %plane 1: %count them: 5 %choreographed)
Last Line: Who hunt birds, it's %always morning here
Subject(s): Berry (france); Book Of Hours; Catholic Church - Liturgy; Church Year; Fifteenth Century - Poetry; Manuscripts, Latin (medieval And Modern); Months; Tres Riches Heures Du Duc De Berry


AUGUST 20, 1418: FAMINE WITH RUMORS OF WAR, by COLE SWENSEN    Poem Source                    
First Line: From the root word 'tend'
Last Line: You turned to stone or sun? How many can you see through %disguised as shore
Subject(s): Berry (france); Book Of Hours; Catholic Church - Liturgy; Church Year; Fifteenth Century - Poetry; Manuscripts, Latin (medieval And Modern); Months; Tres Riches Heures Du Duc De Berry


AUGUST 26, 1425, by COLE SWENSEN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Item: %they arm the blind. (who were also the starved)
Last Line: Denly mad. In fact, most were midly entertained, and the rest just unusually tired
Subject(s): Berry (france); Book Of Hours; Catholic Church - Liturgy; Church Year; Fifteenth Century - Poetry; Manuscripts, Latin (medieval And Modern); Months; Tres Riches Heures Du Duc De Berry


AUGUST 3: THE TOWER IN THE BACKGROUND , NAMED LA GUINETTE, WHICH IS..., by COLE SWENSEN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Things had names. Towers, jewels, swords. We vestige the gesture in
Last Line: Ask the way by name, who name %to whole this fragile hold
Subject(s): Berry (france); Book Of Hours; Catholic Church - Liturgy; Church Year; Fifteenth Century - Poetry; Manuscripts, Latin (medieval And Modern); Months; Tres Riches Heures Du Duc De Berry


DECEMBER 0: NEW MATH, by COLE SWENSEN    Poem Source                    
First Line: How feared it was this certain
Last Line: Acre in and into %entire rooms, whole towns, our mouths
Subject(s): Berry (france); Book Of Hours; Catholic Church - Liturgy; Church Year; Fifteenth Century - Poetry; Manuscripts, Latin (medieval And Modern); Months; Tres Riches Heures Du Duc De Berry


DECEMBER 1: THE HUNT, by COLE SWENSEN    Poem Source                    
First Line: To every month %its animal %animal
Last Line: Every instant of an animal's life and almost makes it equal
Subject(s): Berry (france); Book Of Hours; Catholic Church - Liturgy; Church Year; Fifteenth Century - Poetry; Manuscripts, Latin (medieval And Modern); Months; Tres Riches Heures Du Duc De Berry


DECEMBER 25, 1456: JE FRANCOYS VILLON, ESCOLLIER, by COLE SWENSEN    Poem Source                    
First Line: It's snowing %bitter %ground
Last Line: Who said when wolves live on the wind they get fat
Subject(s): Berry (france); Book Of Hours; Catholic Church - Liturgy; Church Year; Fifteenth Century - Poetry; Manuscripts, Latin (medieval And Modern); Months; Tres Riches Heures Du Duc De Berry


DECEMBER 28: DAY OF THE SAINTS-INNOCENTS, by COLE SWENSEN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Were not counted %we lost count
Last Line: The dead, utter in their number, and wrong
Subject(s): Berry (france); Book Of Hours; Catholic Church - Liturgy; Church Year; Fifteenth Century - Poetry; Manuscripts, Latin (medieval And Modern); Months; Tres Riches Heures Du Duc De Berry


EARLY MORNING: OURS OF THE WHOLLY SPIRIT, by COLE SWENSEN    Poem Source                    
First Line: In sequential moment %follow glory and the glory to be %nearly pointed out
Last Line: Reigns %without amen who lives
Subject(s): Berry (france); Book Of Hours; Catholic Church - Liturgy; Church Year; Fifteenth Century - Poetry; Manuscripts, Latin (medieval And Modern); Months; Tres Riches Heures Du Duc De Berry


EASTER; APRIL 1, 1888, by EMILY PAULINE JOHNSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Lent gathers up her cloak of sombre shading
Last Line: Against the far blue sky.
Alternate Author Name(s): Tekahionwake
Subject(s): April; Catholic Church - Liturgy; Easter; Holidays; Lent; Time; The Resurrection


EVOLUTION OF THE GARDEN, by COLE SWENSEN    Poem Source                    
First Line: As albertus magnus instructs us
Last Line: We could live here %gardinum %hundreds %of acres set aside for watching animals
Subject(s): Berry (france); Book Of Hours; Catholic Church - Liturgy; Church Year; Fifteenth Century - Poetry; Manuscripts, Latin (medieval And Modern); Months; Tres Riches Heures Du Duc De Berry


FEAST OF THE PRESENTATION OF MARY IN THE TEMPLE, by ABRAM JOSEPH RYAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The priests stood waiting in the holy place
Last Line: Of faith, and hope, and everlasting rest.
Subject(s): Catholic Church - Liturgy; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible; Virgin Mary


FEAST OF THE SACRED HEART, by ABRAM JOSEPH RYAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Two lights on a lowly altar
Last Line: In the palm of the priest's pure hand.
Subject(s): Catholic Church - Liturgy


FEBRUARY 1 BIS, by COLE SWENSEN    Poem Source                    
First Line: And the body between word and world fuses, frays'
Last Line: The footsteps leading up to it %all by themselves, hives
Subject(s): Berry (france); Book Of Hours; Catholic Church - Liturgy; Church Year; Fifteenth Century - Poetry; Manuscripts, Latin (medieval And Modern); Months; Tres Riches Heures Du Duc De Berry


FEBRUARY 14, 1404: THE BIRTH OF LEON BATTISTA ALBERTI, by COLE SWENSEN    Poem Source                    
First Line: One-eyed ceiling %always vault saw converging
Last Line: The fan becomes a fan
Subject(s): Berry (france); Book Of Hours; Catholic Church - Liturgy; Church Year; Fifteenth Century - Poetry; Manuscripts, Latin (medieval And Modern); Months; Tres Riches Heures Du Duc De Berry


FEBRUARY 19, 1414: FIRST APPEARANCE OF THE WHOOPING COUGH IN EUROPE, by COLE SWENSEN    Poem Source                    
First Line: All these cranes they say omen as they might/ as if a
Last Line: White slice in (cf. White) (cf. Within)
Subject(s): Berry (france); Book Of Hours; Catholic Church - Liturgy; Church Year; Fifteenth Century - Poetry; Manuscripts, Latin (medieval And Modern); Months; Tres Riches Heures Du Duc De Berry


FEBRUARY 1: WINTER AGRICULTURE, by COLE SWENSEN    Poem Source                    
First Line: And here to our left we see
Last Line: Maps, my lady, we live in a tiny, tiny world
Subject(s): Berry (france); Book Of Hours; Catholic Church - Liturgy; Church Year; Fifteenth Century - Poetry; Manuscripts, Latin (medieval And Modern); Months; Tres Riches Heures Du Duc De Berry


FEBRUARY 2: THE BENEDICTION OF THE CANDLES, by COLE SWENSEN    Poem Source                    
First Line: When the faithful go marked %forehead in ashes washes
Last Line: A strange shape for paradise. I thought it would be more round
Subject(s): Berry (france); Book Of Hours; Catholic Church - Liturgy; Church Year; Fifteenth Century - Poetry; Manuscripts, Latin (medieval And Modern); Months; Tres Riches Heures Du Duc De Berry


FOREWORD, by COLE SWENSEN    Poem Source                    
First Line: That mine that was a country, a %poverty starred
Last Line: But that you did %not look back
Subject(s): Berry (france); Book Of Hours; Catholic Church - Liturgy; Church Year; Fifteenth Century - Poetry; Manuscripts, Latin (medieval And Modern); Months; Tres Riches Heures Du Duc De Berry


FORTUNE, THE BOCCACCIO OF JEAN SANS PEUR, 1409-1419, by COLE SWENSEN    Poem Source                    
First Line: We know our monsters only -not par l'entremise des anciens textes-but by the
Last Line: In the wind are yet other %futures, but they refuse
Subject(s): Berry (france); Book Of Hours; Catholic Church - Liturgy; Church Year; Fifteenth Century - Poetry; Manuscripts, Latin (medieval And Modern); Months; Tres Riches Heures Du Duc De Berry


FORWARD, by COLE SWENSEN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Nunc %we videmus %see
Last Line: Tunc %tunc %autem %ad faciem %si
Subject(s): Berry (france); Book Of Hours; Catholic Church - Liturgy; Church Year; Fifteenth Century - Poetry; Manuscripts, Latin (medieval And Modern); Months; Tres Riches Heures Du Duc De Berry


FOURTH MONTH: APRIL: WITH PREVIEW OF JOAN OF ARC, by COLE SWENSEN    Poem Source                    
First Line: To: land, air, and water. Must be added fire. Is utterly altered by fire. Are
Last Line: Said no, it heals, said the flames seal something I was just about to think %anneals. I see an edge
Subject(s): Berry (france); Book Of Hours; Catholic Church - Liturgy; Church Year; Fifteenth Century - Poetry; Manuscripts, Latin (medieval And Modern); Months; Tres Riches Heures Du Duc De Berry


GILBERT OF SEMPRINGHAM, by MADELINE DEFREES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Plain gilbert to me, who wore with a heavy veil
Last Line: Not even my name new-borne?
Alternate Author Name(s): Mary Gilbert, Sister; De Frees, Madeline
Subject(s): Catholic Church - Liturgy; Nuns


INVENTION OF EQUAL HOURS, by COLE SWENSEN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Rare they %and approximate who %could tell the hour after
Last Line: You'd wake up in the middle of the night and find you'd been counting in %your sleep
Subject(s): Berry (france); Book Of Hours; Catholic Church - Liturgy; Church Year; Fifteenth Century - Poetry; Manuscripts, Latin (medieval And Modern); Months; Tres Riches Heures Du Duc De Berry


JANUARY 17: ST. ANTONY'S DAY: LES FLAMMES, by COLE SWENSEN    Poem Source                    
First Line: There's a disease that eats up the limbs that feels like ants are eating them'
Last Line: Was hidden (or slid, envelope-style) %into fire or flood, but usually fire
Subject(s): Berry (france); Book Of Hours; Catholic Church - Liturgy; Church Year; Fifteenth Century - Poetry; Manuscripts, Latin (medieval And Modern); Months; Tres Riches Heures Du Duc De Berry


JANUARY 1: ONCE FRAMED, by COLE SWENSEN    Poem Source                    
First Line: The walls break down never were sugar in a storm castle on a
Last Line: The colors running, the men carving meat
Subject(s): Berry (france); Book Of Hours; Catholic Church - Liturgy; Church Year; Fifteenth Century - Poetry; Manuscripts, Latin (medieval And Modern); Months; Tres Riches Heures Du Duc De Berry


JANUARY 1: THE FEAST OF THE NEW YEAR, by COLE SWENSEN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Vows, a fete of, phalanx of, flagrant and sky all written on in snow: hommage
Last Line: Aproche + aproche (scatter the century) %last
Subject(s): Berry (france); Book Of Hours; Catholic Church - Liturgy; Church Year; Fifteenth Century - Poetry; Manuscripts, Latin (medieval And Modern); Months; Tres Riches Heures Du Duc De Berry


JANUARY 28: ST. THOMAS, by COLE SWENSEN    Poem Source                    
First Line: This day a great theophany %internaling an only %shining face
Last Line: Meaning water, or lover of water, or both
Variant Title(s): January 28, 1403: St. Thoma
Subject(s): Berry (france); Book Of Hours; Catholic Church - Liturgy; Church Year; Fifteenth Century - Poetry; Manuscripts, Latin (medieval And Modern); Months; Tres Riches Heures Du Duc De Berry


JANUARY 29, 1408: THE GREAT FLOOD OF, by COLE SWENSEN    Poem Source                    
First Line: To a life of moving water %and a watermark on the water
Last Line: A cup and saucer spin for a moment on the surface
Subject(s): Berry (france); Book Of Hours; Catholic Church - Liturgy; Church Year; Fifteenth Century - Poetry; Manuscripts, Latin (medieval And Modern); Months; Tres Riches Heures Du Duc De Berry


JANUARY 3: THE FEAST OF ST. GENEVIEVE; PATRON SAINT OF PARIS; 422-500, by COLE SWENSEN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Blew the candle out no devil knew not %the name stopped
Last Line: Sewn with the blindman's stitch
Subject(s): Berry (france); Book Of Hours; Catholic Church - Liturgy; Church Year; Fifteenth Century - Poetry; Manuscripts, Latin (medieval And Modern); Months; Tres Riches Heures Du Duc De Berry


JANUARY 5/5, by COLE SWENSEN    Poem Source                    
First Line: =one. Need say we what was that you said it shrank %to a point
Last Line: Year. %fury. %snow
Subject(s): Berry (france); Book Of Hours; Catholic Church - Liturgy; Church Year; Fifteenth Century - Poetry; Manuscripts, Latin (medieval And Modern); Months; Tres Riches Heures Du Duc De Berry


JANUARY 6, 1400: THE FOUNDING OF LA COUR AMOUREUSE...., by COLE SWENSEN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Cold, %bored, %and underfoot, thin %ice (glance
Last Line: Other of unconscionable red, who unasked, who, undeterred, said %yes
Subject(s): Berry (france); Book Of Hours; Catholic Church - Liturgy; Church Year; Fifteenth Century - Poetry; Manuscripts, Latin (medieval And Modern); Months; Tres Riches Heures Du Duc De Berry


JANUARY 6: ST. MATTHEW'S DAY, by COLE SWENSEN    Poem Source                    
First Line: As the magi stood before herod and said %further home
Last Line: (and not a mark on him) stood %calmly eating the burning grass
Subject(s): Berry (france); Book Of Hours; Catholic Church - Liturgy; Church Year; Fifteenth Century - Poetry; Manuscripts, Latin (medieval And Modern); Months; Tres Riches Heures Du Duc De Berry


JULY 1: FIELD GEOMETRY, by COLE SWENSEN    Poem Source                    
First Line: All that interlock is fawn all that water joins
Last Line: Beyond, say, to the shoulder of the average man
Subject(s): Berry (france); Book Of Hours; Catholic Church - Liturgy; Church Year; Fifteenth Century - Poetry; Manuscripts, Latin (medieval And Modern); Months; Tres Riches Heures Du Duc De Berry


JULY 2, 1421: A RIVER OF BLOOD HAS FLOWED THREE DAYS INTO THE SEINE, by COLE SWENSEN    Poem Source                    
First Line: In one this week %in this now year %of all our after
Last Line: And all their arms %walking on water to victory, singing
Subject(s): Berry (france); Book Of Hours; Catholic Church - Liturgy; Church Year; Fifteenth Century - Poetry; Manuscripts, Latin (medieval And Modern); Months; Tres Riches Heures Du Duc De Berry


JULY 3, 1418: THE MIRACLE OF CRIME, by COLE SWENSEN    Poem Source                    
First Line: When, coming home drunk, a swiss soldier stabbed the stone statue of the virgin
Last Line: A dark lamp, a torch of burning gold, who'd never bled before %him alive
Subject(s): Berry (france); Book Of Hours; Catholic Church - Liturgy; Church Year; Fifteenth Century - Poetry; Manuscripts, Latin (medieval And Modern); Months; Tres Riches Heures Du Duc De Berry


JULY 5, 1421: IN WHICH THE PLIGHT, by COLE SWENSEN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Of starving wolves
Last Line: They are swimming up the freezing river in droves
Subject(s): Berry (france); Book Of Hours; Catholic Church - Liturgy; Church Year; Fifteenth Century - Poetry; Manuscripts, Latin (medieval And Modern); Months; Tres Riches Heures Du Duc De Berry


JULY: COQUELICOT, by COLE SWENSEN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Folio sept: verso. So it goes. There will be. All field entire they. The
Last Line: Though now we say azura, from which %the blue is made
Subject(s): Berry (france); Book Of Hours; Catholic Church - Liturgy; Church Year; Fifteenth Century - Poetry; Manuscripts, Latin (medieval And Modern); Months; Tres Riches Heures Du Duc De Berry


JUNE 15, 1416: THE DEATH OF JEAN, DUC DE BERRY, by COLE SWENSEN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Who had fallen in love in prison (1363)- the swan once wounded
Last Line: Or it's the same one passing (enormous) and in between %the sky
Subject(s): Berry (france); Book Of Hours; Catholic Church - Liturgy; Church Year; Fifteenth Century - Poetry; Manuscripts, Latin (medieval And Modern); Months; Tres Riches Heures Du Duc De Berry


JUNE 1: REAPING, by COLE SWENSEN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Sickle one, scythe two and sweep and sheaf and sign
Last Line: (list everything you could carry %away in a boat)
Subject(s): Berry (france); Book Of Hours; Catholic Church - Liturgy; Church Year; Fifteenth Century - Poetry; Manuscripts, Latin (medieval And Modern); Months; Tres Riches Heures Du Duc De Berry


JUNE 24: THE LONG DAY, by COLE SWENSEN    Poem Source                    
First Line: The day of jean l'amour. The 'saint-john'-all summer starts here. Lit a fire
Last Line: Our word 'singer.' now sing I said louder. I said soon
Subject(s): Berry (france); Book Of Hours; Catholic Church - Liturgy; Church Year; Fifteenth Century - Poetry; Manuscripts, Latin (medieval And Modern); Months; Tres Riches Heures Du Duc De Berry


MACHINE DESIGNS, by COLE SWENSEN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Still thin, though straight, the between
Last Line: And you hear the shift %as a short 'I'-I.E., sill, lip, shipping
Subject(s): Berry (france); Book Of Hours; Catholic Church - Liturgy; Church Year; Fifteenth Century - Poetry; Manuscripts, Latin (medieval And Modern); Months; Tres Riches Heures Du Duc De Berry


MARCH 1432, by COLE SWENSEN    Poem Source                    
First Line: So bitterly froze and the floodwaters reached
Last Line: Flood after freeze and flood again they are talking peace between kings
Subject(s): Berry (france); Book Of Hours; Catholic Church - Liturgy; Church Year; Fifteenth Century - Poetry; Manuscripts, Latin (medieval And Modern); Months; Tres Riches Heures Du Duc De Berry


MARCH 1: SPRING AGRICULTURE, by COLE SWENSEN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Thus we find triads: dimension, form, and order %substance, nature, power
Last Line: Something (we can't see what) (sheaf?) (shearing?) holding (soft) %against himself
Subject(s): Berry (france); Book Of Hours; Catholic Church - Liturgy; Church Year; Fifteenth Century - Poetry; Manuscripts, Latin (medieval And Modern); Months; Tres Riches Heures Du Duc De Berry


MARCH 25, 1472/75: THE ANNUNCIATION, LEONARDO DA VINCI, by COLE SWENSEN    Poem Source                    
First Line: As in mid as in air as if there could %be enough
Last Line: Empty space %to %emptiness
Subject(s): Berry (france); Book Of Hours; Catholic Church - Liturgy; Church Year; Fifteenth Century - Poetry; Manuscripts, Latin (medieval And Modern); Months; Tres Riches Heures Du Duc De Berry


MARCH 25: THE ANNUNCIATION, by COLE SWENSEN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Mary of the turning %who turns around and stammers
Last Line: What am I doing? And what am I incapable of doing?
Subject(s): Berry (france); Book Of Hours; Catholic Church - Liturgy; Church Year; Fifteenth Century - Poetry; Manuscripts, Latin (medieval And Modern); Months; Tres Riches Heures Du Duc De Berry


MARCH 8 (FEAST DAY OF JOHN OF GOD, PATRON SAINT OF PRINTERS)......., by COLE SWENSEN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Moves the word is good of god what moving
Last Line: (as god is to every %clockwork aviary)
Subject(s): Berry (france); Book Of Hours; Catholic Church - Liturgy; Church Year; Fifteenth Century - Poetry; Manuscripts, Latin (medieval And Modern); Months; Tres Riches Heures Du Duc De Berry


MARCH: NOCTURNE, by COLE SWENSEN    Poem Source                    
First Line: And as are the nocturnes, three
Last Line: Gates shall enter in %shall and
Subject(s): Berry (france); Book Of Hours; Catholic Church - Liturgy; Church Year; Fifteenth Century - Poetry; Manuscripts, Latin (medieval And Modern); Months; Tres Riches Heures Du Duc De Berry


MARCH: THE THIRD LESSON: TO BE SAID AT NIGHT OR UPON RISING, by COLE SWENSEN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Cedar of libanus, the exalted %(as was I, oh l., a witness) a cypress
Last Line: And the cypress and the olive and the scar above the eye
Subject(s): Berry (france); Book Of Hours; Catholic Church - Liturgy; Church Year; Fifteenth Century - Poetry; Manuscripts, Latin (medieval And Modern); Months; Tres Riches Heures Du Duc De Berry


MAY 1, I A.M.: LES REVENANTS, by COLE SWENSEN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Old and on / certain nights of the walpurgis I saw them
Last Line: (the precision) there %by choice
Subject(s): Berry (france); Book Of Hours; Catholic Church - Liturgy; Church Year; Fifteenth Century - Poetry; Manuscripts, Latin (medieval And Modern); Months; Tres Riches Heures Du Duc De Berry


MAY 19, 1435: THE GREAT FREEZE, by COLE SWENSEN    Poem Source                    
First Line: It is reported he walked out
Last Line: The hundred and forty you could see right through %the crystal trees
Subject(s): Berry (france); Book Of Hours; Catholic Church - Liturgy; Church Year; Fifteenth Century - Poetry; Manuscripts, Latin (medieval And Modern); Months; Tres Riches Heures Du Duc De Berry


MAY 1: BROAD DAY, by COLE SWENSEN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Note the curves we pause and forth %and he turns %and she looks
Last Line: And pointed and smiled, but I couldn't hear what he said
Subject(s): Berry (france); Book Of Hours; Catholic Church - Liturgy; Church Year; Fifteenth Century - Poetry; Manuscripts, Latin (medieval And Modern); Months; Tres Riches Heures Du Duc De Berry


MAY 21, 1420: SIGNING THE TREATY OF TROYES, by COLE SWENSEN    Poem Source                    
First Line: And thus we give up: this and this and
Last Line: You get a great view from here; it just isn't yours anymore
Subject(s): Berry (france); Book Of Hours; Catholic Church - Liturgy; Church Year; Fifteenth Century - Poetry; Manuscripts, Latin (medieval And Modern); Months; Tres Riches Heures Du Duc De Berry


MAY 30, 1427: JOAN-NOT-YET-SAINT WITH SHEEP, by COLE SWENSEN    Poem Source                    
First Line: When they eat from your hand it's said that you're saved
Last Line: And up about half an inch. What %will you give
Subject(s): Berry (france); Book Of Hours; Catholic Church - Liturgy; Church Year; Fifteenth Century - Poetry; Manuscripts, Latin (medieval And Modern); Months; Tres Riches Heures Du Duc De Berry


MAY 5: EARTH, AIR, FIRE, WATER, AND ETHER, by COLE SWENSEN    Poem Source                    
First Line: As is the number %of man: four limbs and a heart, star-shaped if the star
Last Line: A hand (what was held) (hold this) (my most urgent most and %agile wound)
Subject(s): Berry (france); Book Of Hours; Catholic Church - Liturgy; Church Year; Fifteenth Century - Poetry; Manuscripts, Latin (medieval And Modern); Months; Tres Riches Heures Du Duc De Berry


MAY 9: TRANSLATION DAY OF SAINT NICHOLAS OF MYRA, PATRON SAINT OF..., by COLE SWENSEN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Called city of one hundred bell-towers (not one hundred bells)
Last Line: (choose from among) %(my lady, try on this one)
Subject(s): Berry (france); Book Of Hours; Catholic Church - Liturgy; Church Year; Fifteenth Century - Poetry; Manuscripts, Latin (medieval And Modern); Months; Tres Riches Heures Du Duc De Berry


NOVEMBER 11, 1422: THE FUNERAL OF CHARLES THE SIXTH, THE MAD, AND ..., by COLE SWENSEN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Le visage decouvert %and the naked face
Last Line: Drunk the well and for once in our lives could ask for more
Subject(s): Berry (france); Book Of Hours; Catholic Church - Liturgy; Church Year; Fifteenth Century - Poetry; Manuscripts, Latin (medieval And Modern); Months; Tres Riches Heures Du Duc De Berry


NOVEMBER 1485: JEAN COLOMBE HANDS THE FINISHED MANUSCRIPT TO ..., by COLE SWENSEN    Poem Source                    
First Line: And from there four hundred years %hidden in air
Last Line: Was later found somewhere else
Subject(s): Berry (france); Book Of Hours; Catholic Church - Liturgy; Church Year; Fifteenth Century - Poetry; Manuscripts, Latin (medieval And Modern); Months; Tres Riches Heures Du Duc De Berry


NOVEMBER 1: ALL SAINTS' DAY, by COLE SWENSEN    Poem Source                    
First Line: St. (breathe) known by his (guess) st. (yes) known by
Last Line: In antonella's st. Jerome, he is seated in a room whose architecture emulates %the chambers of the h
Subject(s): Berry (france); Book Of Hours; Catholic Church - Liturgy; Church Year; Fifteenth Century - Poetry; Manuscripts, Latin (medieval And Modern); Months; Tres Riches Heures Du Duc De Berry


NOVEMBER 23, 1407: THE MURDER OF LOUIS D'ORLEANS IN THE RUE ...., by COLE SWENSEN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Murdered: one brother %of a mad king of
Last Line: On your knees you %surrounded him and beat him to death
Subject(s): Berry (france); Book Of Hours; Catholic Church - Liturgy; Church Year; Fifteenth Century - Poetry; Manuscripts, Latin (medieval And Modern); Months; Tres Riches Heures Du Duc De Berry


NOVEMBER 25: ST. CATHERINE'S DAY, by COLE SWENSEN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Wheels! (see page yeah, sure first invented in and
Last Line: Water %my homuncular bead
Subject(s): Berry (france); Book Of Hours; Catholic Church - Liturgy; Church Year; Fifteenth Century - Poetry; Manuscripts, Latin (medieval And Modern); Months; Tres Riches Heures Du Duc De Berry


NOVEMBER 2: ALL SOULS' DAY, by COLE SWENSEN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Walk again have passed this gate at night and
Last Line: And so on is the on. Walking is a holy thing; it sieves the sun
Subject(s): Berry (france); Book Of Hours; Catholic Church - Liturgy; Church Year; Fifteenth Century - Poetry; Manuscripts, Latin (medieval And Modern); Months; Tres Riches Heures Du Duc De Berry


NOVEMBER 9, 1414: MARGERY KEMPE MARRIES GOD, by COLE SWENSEN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Who is they we %say (they said) %tear
Last Line: The way it curves to fit the most intricate of them
Subject(s): Berry (france); Book Of Hours; Catholic Church - Liturgy; Church Year; Fifteenth Century - Poetry; Manuscripts, Latin (medieval And Modern); Months; Tres Riches Heures Du Duc De Berry


OCTOBER 1, 1445, by COLE SWENSEN    Poem Source                    
First Line: How to paint a filament designed to be invisible
Last Line: For every man standing %on the edge of a river is a part of it
Subject(s): Berry (france); Book Of Hours; Catholic Church - Liturgy; Church Year; Fifteenth Century - Poetry; Manuscripts, Latin (medieval And Modern); Months; Tres Riches Heures Du Duc De Berry


OCTOBER 12, 1492: THE DEATH OF PIERO DELLA FRANCESCA AND THE ERROR..., by COLE SWENSEN    Poem Source                    
First Line: A child %the size of the %palm of the
Last Line: From on earth %looks safe
Subject(s): Berry (france); Book Of Hours; Catholic Church - Liturgy; Church Year; Fifteenth Century - Poetry; Manuscripts, Latin (medieval And Modern); Months; Tres Riches Heures Du Duc De Berry


OCTOBER 15, 1415: GUILD INITIATION: PAOLO UCCELLO EXAMINES THE SKY, by COLE SWENSEN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Vasari swears %the birds were there, are %still
Last Line: It's that now %the hunted sail for a minute
Subject(s): Berry (france); Book Of Hours; Catholic Church - Liturgy; Church Year; Fifteenth Century - Poetry; Manuscripts, Latin (medieval And Modern); Months; Tres Riches Heures Du Duc De Berry


OCTOBER 25, 1415: THE BATTLE OF AGINCOURT, by COLE SWENSEN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Having promised to cut three fingers
Last Line: Soft trees, %ten thousand men
Subject(s): Berry (france); Book Of Hours; Catholic Church - Liturgy; Church Year; Fifteenth Century - Poetry; Manuscripts, Latin (medieval And Modern); Months; Tres Riches Heures Du Duc De Berry


OCTOBER 28, 1449: THE TRANSLATION OF THE RELICS OF ST. JEAN...., by COLE SWENSEN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Is over %that has ever been told
Last Line: They come back at all? %will be loved
Subject(s): Berry (france); Book Of Hours; Catholic Church - Liturgy; Church Year; Fifteenth Century - Poetry; Manuscripts, Latin (medieval And Modern); Months; Tres Riches Heures Du Duc De Berry


OCTOBER 4, 1451: NICHOLAS OF CUSA PREACHES AT AIX-LA-CHAPELLE, by COLE SWENSEN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Godar %chi tectan
Last Line: Often find myself at home
Subject(s): Berry (france); Book Of Hours; Catholic Church - Liturgy; Church Year; Fifteenth Century - Poetry; Manuscripts, Latin (medieval And Modern); Months; Tres Riches Heures Du Duc De Berry


OCTOBER 7, 1434, by COLE SWENSEN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Remembered for its gale-both of the two surviving accounts of this day
Last Line: And laid it down on a garden gate, balancing. I swear I saw this %with my eyes
Subject(s): Berry (france); Book Of Hours; Catholic Church - Liturgy; Church Year; Fifteenth Century - Poetry; Manuscripts, Latin (medieval And Modern); Months; Tres Riches Heures Du Duc De Berry


OCTOBER: A SUPERSTITIOUS HOUR, by COLE SWENSEN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Nothing is as is seen
Last Line: To have seen, whenever she glanced up, a face she no longer recognized
Subject(s): Berry (france); Book Of Hours; Catholic Church - Liturgy; Church Year; Fifteenth Century - Poetry; Manuscripts, Latin (medieval And Modern); Months; Tres Riches Heures Du Duc De Berry


PAINTER PAINTS A CALENDAR, by COLE SWENSEN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Languor. Succor. Ardor. Such is the tenor of the entry. You open a little door
Last Line: Always %wanted %he said %and did
Variant Title(s): The Painter Rearranges The Mirrors (1415
Subject(s): Berry (france); Book Of Hours; Catholic Church - Liturgy; Church Year; Fifteenth Century - Poetry; Manuscripts, Latin (medieval And Modern); Months; Tres Riches Heures Du Duc De Berry


PREFACE, by COLE SWENSEN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Numbers, which saint augustine considered %god thinks
Last Line: To empty the ocean to fill in the sand
Variant Title(s): Such Rich Hour: Prefac
Subject(s): Berry (france); Book Of Hours; Catholic Church - Liturgy; Church Year; Fifteenth Century - Poetry; Manuscripts, Latin (medieval And Modern); Months; Tres Riches Heures Du Duc De Berry


PROLOGUE, by COLE SWENSEN    Poem Source                    
First Line: And ten days later, the locks and keys
Last Line: That it had to happen/will happen (circle one) this way
Subject(s): Berry (france); Book Of Hours; Catholic Church - Liturgy; Church Year; Fifteenth Century - Poetry; Manuscripts, Latin (medieval And Modern); Months; Tres Riches Heures Du Duc De Berry


RECIPES FOR RED, by COLE SWENSEN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Ardor and pestle %igneous anchor
Last Line: Monsieur, will you do me the honor; take the blood from this faucet %and make from it a pair of glov
Variant Title(s): Such Rich Hour: Recipes For Re
Subject(s): Berry (france); Book Of Hours; Catholic Church - Liturgy; Church Year; Fifteenth Century - Poetry; Manuscripts, Latin (medieval And Modern); Months; Tres Riches Heures Du Duc De Berry


RECURRENT MIRACLE, by COLE SWENSEN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Une si belle chance that a %merveille could strike
Last Line: And wondered if anything would change
Subject(s): Berry (france); Book Of Hours; Catholic Church - Liturgy; Church Year; Fifteenth Century - Poetry; Manuscripts, Latin (medieval And Modern); Months; Tres Riches Heures Du Duc De Berry


RESPONSE: CHRISTINE, by COLE SWENSEN    Poem Source                    
First Line: De pisan founds (inciting
Last Line: Who (what) came (is just now coming) in
Subject(s): Berry (france); Book Of Hours; Catholic Church - Liturgy; Church Year; Fifteenth Century - Poetry; Manuscripts, Latin (medieval And Modern); Months; Tres Riches Heures Du Duc De Berry


SATURDAY, MARCH 2, by COLE SWENSEN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Melusine, who was touched %beyond oath
Last Line: Are you doing in my sky?
Subject(s): Berry (france); Book Of Hours; Catholic Church - Liturgy; Church Year; Fifteenth Century - Poetry; Manuscripts, Latin (medieval And Modern); Months; Tres Riches Heures Du Duc De Berry


SEPTEMBER 1, 618: IN LIGHT OF GOLD: 1. FIRE GILDING, by COLE SWENSEN    Poem Source                    
First Line: The trick this time is mercury %rubbed in by hand, hand and chalice
Last Line: This huge we %put it there
Subject(s): Berry (france); Book Of Hours; Catholic Church - Liturgy; Church Year; Fifteenth Century - Poetry; Manuscripts, Latin (medieval And Modern); Months; Tres Riches Heures Du Duc De Berry


SEPTEMBER 1. 618: IN LIGHT OF GOLD: 3. GILDING BY ATTRITION, by COLE SWENSEN    Poem Source                    
First Line: You take ground glass (you grind glass)
Last Line: Or the people or at least their eyes
Subject(s): Berry (france); Book Of Hours; Catholic Church - Liturgy; Church Year; Fifteenth Century - Poetry; Manuscripts, Latin (medieval And Modern); Months; Tres Riches Heures Du Duc De Berry


SEPTEMBER 1.618: IN LIGHT OF GOLD: 2. CHRYSOGRAPHY WITH GOLD INKS, by COLE SWENSEN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Refractory. %ground the lens rubbing two fingers together: I am lonely
Last Line: Burnish with a tooth tied firmly to an oar
Subject(s): Berry (france); Book Of Hours; Catholic Church - Liturgy; Church Year; Fifteenth Century - Poetry; Manuscripts, Latin (medieval And Modern); Months; Tres Riches Heures Du Duc De Berry


SEPTEMBER 10, 1419: THE ASSASSINATION OF JEAN SANS PEUR, by COLE SWENSEN    Poem Source                    
First Line: In retaliation (see november 23) %kneeling in homage
Last Line: In a red hat, and behind him, a man dressed in red
Subject(s): Berry (france); Book Of Hours; Catholic Church - Liturgy; Church Year; Fifteenth Century - Poetry; Manuscripts, Latin (medieval And Modern); Months; Tres Riches Heures Du Duc De Berry


SEPTEMBER 21, 1431: WOMAN LOSES SLEEP, by COLE SWENSEN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Early afternoon-many around-you know how those women
Last Line: Of falling. 'a rest' she says 'like one has never felt, and the extravagant %promise of an imminent
Subject(s): Berry (france); Book Of Hours; Catholic Church - Liturgy; Church Year; Fifteenth Century - Poetry; Manuscripts, Latin (medieval And Modern); Months; Tres Riches Heures Du Duc De Berry


ST. JUAN GUALBERTO, by ROBERT SOUTHEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The work is done, the fabric is complete
Last Line: And still the good man's name adorns the sainted roll.
Subject(s): Catholic Church - Liturgy; Labor & Laborers; Monks; Piety; Work; Workers


THE MATER PIA, by AMELIA WOODWARD TRUESDELL    Poem Text                    
First Line: Softly the fading moon dies in the sky
Last Line: Lullaby, lullaby, god is with thee.
Subject(s): Catholic Church - Liturgy; Jesus Christ = Suffering & Sacrifice; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Messiah; Religion; Women - Bible; Virgin Mary; Theology


THE PIOUS PAINTER; THE STORY AS RELATED IN FABLIAUX OF LE GRAND, by ROBERT SOUTHEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: There once was a painter in catholic days
Last Line: And I must give the devil his due.
Subject(s): Catholic Church - Liturgy; Devil; Paintings And Painters; Prisoners Of War; Temptation; Satan; Mephistopheles; Lucifer; Beelzebub


WHEN BELLS WERE NAMED, by COLE SWENSEN    Poem Source                    
First Line: And wake up to %the hour of the bells each one and then rang
Last Line: Music at it most refined) the raised hand waved, it %rang
Subject(s): Berry (france); Book Of Hours; Catholic Church - Liturgy; Church Year; Fifteenth Century - Poetry; Manuscripts, Latin (medieval And Modern); Months; Tres Riches Heures Du Duc De Berry