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Subject: FRENCH LANGUAGE
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A TRANSLATION, by JAMES LAUGHLIN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: How did you decide to translate me
Subject(s): French Language; Love; Translating & Interpreting


AT THE BAL MASQUE; COLUMBINE TO PIERROT, by FORD MADOX FORD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Ah - ah- ah - if you ask for a love like that
Last Line: Qu'est c'-qu'est c'-qu'est c' que tu fais dans cette galère?
Alternate Author Name(s): Hueffer, Ford Hermann; Hueffer, Ford Madox
Subject(s): France; French Language; Love


BALLAD TO THE TUNE - 'I'LL TELL THEE, DICK, THAT I HAVE BEEN', by PATRICK CAREY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: And can you think that this translation
Last Line: Than to have none at all.
Subject(s): English Language; French Language; Great Britain - Parliament; Latin Language


CHACUN A SON BERLITZ, by OGDEN NASH    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: French is easy
Last Line: Against the scarecrows: it's on account of their esprit de caw
Subject(s): French Language


EASY SONG, by KENNETH REXROTH    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: It's rained every day since you
Last Line: In the perfume of your flesh. %moi aussi, je suis content
Subject(s): Contentment; French Language; Love; Man-woman Relationships


FRENCH AND ENGLISH, by THOMAS HOOD    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Never go to france
Last Line: A nation with a dummy!
Subject(s): English Language; French Language


FRENCH LESSON: HOTEL D'EUROPE, by EDWARD FIELD    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Cheap paris hotel, a true bargain
Last Line: Quite as satisfactory as this
Alternate Author Name(s): Elliot, Bruce
Subject(s): Paris, France; Hotels; French Language


FRENCH WITH A MASTER, by THEODORE TILTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Teach you french? I will, my dear!
Last Line: Aimer, aimer; c'est a vivre.
Subject(s): French Language


NEVER TOO LATE: INFIDA'S SONG, by ROBERT GREENE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Sweet adon, dar'st not glance thine eye -
Last Line: N'oserez vous, mon bel ami?
Variant Title(s): N'oserez Vous, Mon Bel Ami?
Subject(s): French Language; Love; Mythology - Classical; Venus (goddess)


NEVER TOO LATE: MULLIDOR'S MADRIGAL, by ROBERT GREENE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Dildido, dildido
Last Line: Trop belle pour moi, voilà mon trépas!
Variant Title(s): Love
Subject(s): French Language; Love


ONE-HUNDRED-PER-CENT FRENCH, by CHARD POWERS SMITH    Poem Text                    
First Line: A fellow never understands the french
Last Line: "had learned to smile and ask, ""ca va, monsieur?"
Subject(s): French Language


PREMIERE LECON, by FLORENCE E. VON WIEN    Poem Text                    
First Line: You moved on the platform with aesthetic grace, professeur
Last Line: Do you know you are beautiful, michel?
Subject(s): French Language; Love; Man-woman Relationships; Schools; Teaching & Teachers; Male-female Relations; Students


TONGUES, by RUTH STONE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: To mortify the spirit I once attended
Last Line: The stuttering leaves on the insensible pavement.
Subject(s): Class Struggle; French Language; Tongues


TRANSLATION, by JAMES LAUGHLIN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: How did you decide to translate me
Last Line: The other as if to say yes you can %speak french to me now I if you wish
Subject(s): French Language; Love; Translating And Interpreting


WHAT IS BIBBIDI-BOBNBIDI-BOO IN SANSKRIT?, by OGDEN NASH    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: When people tell me french is difficult, I show my dimple
Last Line: Having gained the gratitude of mr. Berlin, I am now leafing trough the works of mr. Oscar hammerstei
Subject(s): Dimples; French Language


WHO'LL BUY MY LINGUAL? OR, YOU PRONOUNCE PLUIE, LOUIE, by OGDEN NASH    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I wander through a paris shower
Last Line: And now I think a glass of wine %would not be too unpleasant, hein?
Subject(s): French Language