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Subject: RODIN, AUGUSTE (1840-1917)
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AT THE MUSEE RODIN IN PARIS, by LAURE-ANNE BOSSELAAR    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In front of a window
Last Line: A shadow to the ground.
Subject(s): Air; Museums; Paris, France; Rodin, Auguste (1840-1917); Sculpture & Sculptors; Secrets; Art Gallerys


ON RODIN'S 'L'ILLUSION, SOEUR D'ICARE', by TRUMBULL STICKNEY    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: She started up from where the lizard lies
Last Line: A ghost of ecstasy, backward to earth, %and shattered all her beauty in a kiss
Subject(s): Art And Artists; Rodin, Auguste (1840-1917)


REPLICAS, by LETITIA STOCKETT    Poem Text                    
First Line: Appraising, cool, I walk with you
Last Line: Figures of the dust.
Subject(s): Rodin, Auguste (1840-1917)


RODIN: THE CATHEDRAL; ON COMING UPON IT UNPREPARED, by MILLER WILLIAMS    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: We had an hour. '-- and on the way,' she said
Last Line: In living to know that though it is made of us %we never can quite see what it signifies
Subject(s): Rodin, Auguste (1840-1917); Sculpture And Sculptors


THE PARALLAX MONOGRAPH FOR RODIN, by NORMAN DUBIE    Poem Source     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: I dreamt, last night, of your stone cabinet, porte de l'enfer
Last Line: "it's hell, of course."
Subject(s): Dreams; Rodin, Auguste (1840-1917); Sculpture & Sculptors; Secrets; Sex; Nightmares


THE WALKING MAN OF RODIN, by CARL SANDBURG    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Legs hold a torso away from the earth
Last Line: The skull found always crumbling neighbor of the ankles.
Subject(s): Rodin, Auguste (1840-1917)


TO RODIN, by CHARLES WHARTON STORK    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Smooth-browed they stand, these marble forms of old
Last Line: That strains toward god through clinging veils of stone.
Subject(s): Rodin, Auguste (1840-1917)