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Subject: PASCAL, BLAISE (1623-1662)
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` ABYSS, by CHARLES BAUDELAIRE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Pascal's abyss was with him everywhere
Last Line: My acrophobic spirit is falling in love %to be nowhere! -- free of being, form, and name!
Subject(s): Nothingness; Pascal, Blaise (1623-1662)


PASCAL, by LOUISE IMOGEN GUINEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Thou lovedst life, but not to brand it thine (o rich in all forborne felicities
Last Line: More blessedly, that men can name them not.
Subject(s): Death; Life; Pascal, Blaise (1623-1662); Dead, The


PASCAL'S CHARACTER OF HIMSELF, by JOHN BYROM    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I love and honour a poor humble state
Last Line: I'm nothing else but misery and woe.
Subject(s): Jesus Christ; Mankind; Pascal, Blaise (1623-1662); Salvation; Self-pity; Sin; Human Race


PASCAL'S VISION, by STEPHEN MITCHELL            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Weaned too fast and permitted to grow up among numbers, the
Subject(s): Pascal, Blaise (1623-1662)


PASCAL'S VISION, by STEPHEN MITCHELL    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Weaned too fast and permitted to grow up among numbers, the
Last Line: Knows: that nothing is ever suffered in plural. %there is only one body. Only one death
Subject(s): Pascal, Blaise (1623-1662)


READING PASCAL IN THE LOWLANDS, by DOUGLAS DUNN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: His aunt has gone astray in her concern
Last Line: A little town, its estuary, its bridge, %its houses, churches, its undramatic streets
Subject(s): Pascal, Blaise (1623-1662)


THE GULF, by CHARLES BAUDELAIRE    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Pascal had his gulf, wandering with him
Last Line: -ah! To leave numbers and entities never!
Subject(s): Pascal, Blaise (1623-1662); Reality


THE PIT, by CHARLES BAUDELAIRE    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Great pascal had his pit always in sight
Last Line: Ah! From time's menace never to win free!
Subject(s): Fear; Pascal, Blaise (1623-1662); Sleep