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Subject: SURREALISM Matches Found: 293 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` 10-JUN-36, by ROBERT DESNOS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: At the bend in the road Last Line: Life is beautiful and the air is good Subject(s): Surrealism 26 POINTS TO SPECIFY, by BENJAMIN PERET Poem Source First Line: My life will end by a Last Line: The date of my birth Subject(s): Surrealism A MAN AND WOMAN ABSOLUTELY WHITE, by ANDRE BRETON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the depths of the parasol I see the marvelous prostitutes Last Line: Their breasts in which the invisible blue blood sobs forever Subject(s): Prostitution; Surrealism; Harlots; Whores; Brothels ABOUT ONESELF, by ROBERT DESNOS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Iron anemone sheet Last Line: A red flag folded back up Subject(s): Surrealism ACROSS THE BRIDGE, by ROBERT DESNOS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The door is shut on the idol of lead Last Line: Please, let her sleep Subject(s): Surrealism ALL WRITING IS GARBAGE, by ANTONIN ARTAUD Poem Source First Line: People who come out of nowhere to try to put into words any part Last Line: And I shall have no further need to speak Subject(s): Surrealism; Writing And Writers ALWAYS, by BENJAMIN PERET Poem Source First Line: Nothing on the twisted horizon more worn-out Last Line: In which you would read nothing but I love you %on every page Subject(s): Surrealism ANCIENT CLAMOR, by ROBERT DESNOS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A stalk stripped of its leaves in my hand is the world Last Line: Virgin flower of coal kind-hearted virgin Subject(s): Surrealism ANNOUNCEMENT, by ROBERT DESNOS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: On the deck of a ship a dressmaker is stitching Last Line: You'll put on your out-of-this-world dress suit %and everyone will be quite happy Subject(s): Surrealism APPARITION, by ROBERT DESNOS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Born from mud, sprung heavenwards Last Line: An immense bouquet of red roses Subject(s): Surrealism; Mud; Sleep APPROXIMATE MAN, SELS., by TRISTAN TZARA Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Sunday heavy potlid on the boiling blood Last Line: Around its core the dream they call us by Alternate Author Name(s): Rosenstock, Sami; Rosenfeld, S. Subject(s): Surrealism ARBITRARY FATE, by ROBERT DESNOS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The time of the crusades is coming Last Line: We will brighten with lights unknown up to now Subject(s): Surrealism; Dreams ARBITRARY FATE, by ROBERT DESNOS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The time of the crusades is coming Last Line: And do not dare gnaw those breasts %those luscious breasts Subject(s): Surrealism ARM IN ARM, by BENJAMIN PERET Poem Source First Line: She will have big boomerang eyes Last Line: Mayonnaise tears %very old jackets Subject(s): Surrealism ARS POETICA, by ROBERT DESNOS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Across the snout Last Line: I am the verse witness of my master's breath Subject(s): Surrealism; World War Ii; Poetry & Ports; Second World War ARS POETICA, by ROBERT DESNOS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Across the snout Last Line: And one hand in mine %and the joy of living %I am the verse witness of my master's breath Subject(s): Surrealism; World War Ii AS BEAUTIFUL AS YOU ARE, by ROBERT DESNOS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Go away from me Subject(s): Surrealism AT APOLLINAIRE'S GRAVE, by ALLEN GINSBERG Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I visited pere lachaise to look for the remains of apollinaire Last Line: I am buried here and sit by my grave beneath a tree Subject(s): Apollinaire, Guillaume (1880-1918); Poetry & Poets; Surrealism AT APOLLINAIRE'S GRAVE, by ALLEN GINSBERG Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I visited pere lachaise to look for the remains of apollinaire Last Line: I am buried here and sit by my grave beneath a tree Subject(s): Apollinaire, Guillaume (1880-1918); Poetry And Poets; Surrealism AT APOLLINAIRE'S TOMB, by RON PADGETT Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: The death of guillaume apollinaire still calls forth feelings of sorrow Subject(s): Apollinaire, Guillaume (1880-1918); Poetry & Poets; Surrealism AT APOLLINAIRE'S TOMB, by RON PADGETT Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The death of guillaume apollinaire still calls forth feelings of sorrow Last Line: I looked around. He was gone. Everything looked the same. %well, %sort of Subject(s): Apollinaire, Guillaume (1880-1918); Poetry And Poets; Surrealism AT DAWN, by ROBERT DESNOS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The morning shatters like a stack of plates Last Line: Even if she holds out her hand %and sleeps come the fresh morning %in her filthy dress %on a barren Subject(s): Surrealism AT DAYBREAK, by ROBERT DESNOS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Will the schist brighten the white night of cork? Last Line: Not far from here a grass is drying by the roadside Subject(s): Surrealism AT DAYBREAK, by ROBERT DESNOS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Will the schist light up the cork's sleepless night Last Line: Not very far from here the grass is wilting at the edge of a Subject(s): Surrealism AT FIVE O'CLOCK, by ROBERT DESNOS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: At five o'clock in the morning in a new and empty street Last Line: Tell me what happens in the lives of men Subject(s): Surrealism AT THE BACK OF BEYOND, by BENJAMIN PERET Poem Source First Line: When the burning coals run away like frightened Last Line: Before the toes of the concierges become the rails %of the train track Subject(s): Surrealism AWAKENINGS, by ROBERT DESNOS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It's strange how you wake sometimes in the middle of the night in the middle of sleep someone has kn Last Line: I'll never know how do you recognize yoursel Subject(s): Surrealism AWAKENINGS, by ROBERT DESNOS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How strange it is to wake up sometimes in the middle of the night Last Line: Me, I will never know if you recognize yourself Subject(s): Surrealism BADLY SHAVEN, by BENJAMIN PERET Poem Source First Line: A chicken paces back and forth in a snuffbox Last Line: On foot %like a french fry Subject(s): Surrealism BEAUTIES OF HEAVEN AND EARTH, by BENJAMIN PERET Poem Source First Line: A big man with salty hair Last Line: Earth toward the clouds %waterspout off starboard Subject(s): Surrealism BOTTLE IN THE RIVER, by ROBERT DESNOS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: To guess there's a woman walking Last Line: Behind which it's easy to guess there's a woman walking %easy to walk with the woman who can guess Subject(s): Surrealism BRIEF SONGS, by ROBERT DESNOS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You've been singing for so long Last Line: All the glory of spring Subject(s): Surrealism BUNCH OF CARROTS, by BENJAMIN PERET Poem Source First Line: Blood blood and blood of the flying cod Last Line: Like a tousled shock of hair Subject(s): Surrealism BUT I WAS NOT UNDERSTOOD, by ROBERT DESNOS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What corolla have you hidden your thumbs in Last Line: But wipe your hands before praying Subject(s): Surrealism BUT I WAS NOT UNDERSTOOD, by ROBERT DESNOS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What corolla have you hidden your thumbs in Last Line: But wipe your hands before praying Subject(s): Surrealism CASCADE, by ROBERT DESNOS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What sort of arrow split the sky and this rock Last Line: Sign of the return of archers and patriotic songs Subject(s): Surrealism CASCADE, by ROBERT DESNOS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What sort of arrow split the sky and this rock Last Line: Sign of the return of archers and patriotic songs Subject(s): Surrealism CLOSED ROOM, by ROBERT DESNOS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The room is closed and empty, very empty Last Line: I know there is no longer time Subject(s): Surrealism COMING DOWN HILLSIDES IN SPRING, by ROBERT DESNOS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Coming down hillsides in the spring Last Line: I will never know Subject(s): Surrealism COMING HARVESTS, by ROBERT DESNOS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Hail, coming harvests, scented, bloody Last Line: It cheats or abandons me Subject(s): Surrealism COMME, by ROBERT DESNOS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Come, one englishman says to another, and the englishman comes Subject(s): Surrealism COMRADE, by PHILIPPE SOUPAULT Poem Source First Line: Little months little smokes %and oblivion in a wool dress Last Line: My head in my hands %and my hands in my head Subject(s): Surrealism COMRADES, by ROBERT DESNOS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Paper, go fold yourself, be a rose and a rainbow Last Line: And offer death nothing more than a sad feast and poor hospi Subject(s): Surrealism CONVERSATION, by GISELE PRASSINOS Poem Source First Line: In a wheat field Last Line: We come from the same high places Subject(s): Surrealism COUPLE OF WORDS, by BENJAMIN PERET Poem Source First Line: When night falls %the night of stoves that have burned too much Last Line: I love you cave of sulphur Subject(s): Surrealism CRAWFISH, by X. J. KENNEDY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Uncertainty o my secret joy Alternate Author Name(s): Kennedy, Joseph Subject(s): Apollinaire, Guillaume (1880-1918); Crayfish; Poetry And Poets; Surrealism CUCKOO, by ROBERT DESNOS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It was all like a childhood picture Last Line: Nights after days %days after nights Subject(s): Surrealism DEATH OF GUILLAUME APOLLINAIRE, by TRISTAN TZARA Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: We don't know a thing Last Line: Death would be a long beautiful voyage %and endless vacation from the flesh from structures and from Alternate Author Name(s): Rosenstock, Sami; Rosenfeld, S. Subject(s): Apollinaire, Guillaume (1880-1918); Dadaism; Poetry And Poets; Surrealism DEATH OF GUILLAUME APOLLINAIRE, by TRISTAN TZARA Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: We know nothing Last Line: Death would be a fine long journey %and limitless holidays for flesh structures and bones Alternate Author Name(s): Rosenstock, Sami; Rosenfeld, S. Subject(s): Apollinaire, Guillaume (1880-1918); Dadaism; Poetry And Poets; Surrealism DEATH OF MOTHER COGNACQ, by BENJAMIN PERET Poem Source First Line: At the age when most children roll in the sand Last Line: Around her grave crowned with a turd Subject(s): Surrealism DECENT FOLK, by BENJAMIN PERET Poem Source First Line: The quarrel between the chicken in the pot and the Last Line: Vulcanized by its father Subject(s): Surrealism DESPERATE ARDOR, by BENJAMIN PERET Poem Source First Line: If the wind permits it Last Line: In the sun %at midday Subject(s): Surrealism DEVIL FEAST, by ROBERT DESNOS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The last drop of wine flares up at the bottom of the glass Last Line: Across the dark fields Subject(s): Surrealism DON JUAN'S CITY, by ROBERT DESNOS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Blind men, cripples, idiots Last Line: A hole, nothing but an empty hole, a tiny hole Subject(s): Surrealism DOOR TO THE SECOND INFINITY, by ROBERT DESNOS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The inkwell periscope lies in wait around the bend Last Line: With a direct line / to fear Subject(s): Surrealism; Death; Identity; Poetry & Poets DOOR TO THE SECOND INFINITY, by ROBERT DESNOS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The inkwell periscope lies in wait around the bend Last Line: But I'm the inventor of a telephone %made of crystal and %english tobacco %with a direct line %to fe Subject(s): Surrealism DOORS, by THERESE PLANTIER Poem Source First Line: They unfold before the sky Last Line: A circular house, %punctuated by innumerable incinerations Subject(s): Surrealism DREAM IN A CELLAR, by ROBERT DESNOS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: So many flasks were shattered in this cellar Last Line: Dreaming again and again of the kindness of a warm bed Subject(s): Surrealism DYING, by ROBERT DESNOS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: To die without regret you have to be so weary Last Line: Will know a rest as empty as the ruins Subject(s): Surrealism EARTH, by ROBERT DESNOS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Day after day Last Line: We're in it for all time Subject(s): Surrealism EBONY LIFE, by ROBERT DESNOS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A frightening stillness will mark that day Last Line: And that the voice would look kindly on me Subject(s): Surrealism EBONY LIFE, by ROBERT DESNOS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A frightening stillness will mark that day Last Line: And that the voice would look kindly on me Subject(s): Surrealism ELEGY OF MIDNIGHT, by LEOPOLD SEDAR SENGHOR Poet's Biography First Line: Summer, splendid summer feedng the poet on the milk of your Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement); Surrealism ELEGY OF MIDNIGHT, by LEOPOLD SEDAR SENGHOR Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Summer, splendid summer feedng the poet on the milk of your Last Line: My green and gold-eyed doll with a voice so marvellous, %it is the very tongue of poetry Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement); Surrealism ENCOUNTERS, by ROBERT DESNOS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: On your way Last Line: But your name is dirty %on your way Subject(s): Surrealism EPITAPH, by ROBERT DESNOS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: I lived in those times. For a thousand years / I have been dead Last Line: The seasons provided their birds ancd their honey Subject(s): Surrealism EPITAPH, by ROBERT DESNOS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I lived in these times and I've been dead Last Line: Nothing is left of my spirit or my body Subject(s): Surrealism EPITAPH, by ROBERT DESNOS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I lived in those times. For a thousand years %I have been dead Last Line: Nothing survives of my spirit or my body Subject(s): Surrealism EUCHARISTIC CONGRESS OF CHICAGO, by BENJAMIN PERET Poem Source First Line: When the woodlice meet the cockroaches Last Line: Is nothing more than an absurd and ghastly pebble Subject(s): Surrealism EVENING, by ROBERT DESNOS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In times past a heart beat in this breast Last Line: And everything will start all over again Subject(s): Surrealism EVOLUTION OF A PRETTY WOMAN, by BENJAMIN PERET Poem Source First Line: There was as I remember a man the color of fire Last Line: And I'm dazzled by it Subject(s): Surrealism FACE TO BE SMACKED, by BENJAMIN PERET Poem Source First Line: Oh how the bones are thin in rainy weather Last Line: Bicycles in a cemetery %or musicians in the gutter Subject(s): Surrealism FEAST OF CORPUS DIABOLI, by ROBERT DESNOS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The last droplet of wine catches fire in the bottom of the glass Last Line: Contemplate this solitary couple dancing Subject(s): Surrealism; Dancing & Dancers FIRE, by ROBERT DESNOS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And from the shores of the ocean to the mediterranean Last Line: Would've been with us for spain for republican spain Subject(s): Surrealism FLESH HUMAN, by BENJAMIN PERET Poem Source First Line: A charming woman who was crying Last Line: Waiting for the final stab of the dagger Subject(s): Surrealism FOUR SEASONS, by ROBERT DESNOS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She is born at the wane of autumn Last Line: To be, to be, and to have been Subject(s): Surrealism FRENCH DESIRE, by KEITH GEORGE ABBOTT Poem Source First Line: Read a little apollinaire & love it Subject(s): Apollinaire, Guillaume (1880-1918); Poetry And Poets; Surrealism FROM THE MARBLE ROSE TO THE IRON ROSE, by ROBERT DESNOS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The huge white marble rose was alone on the empty square Last Line: The iron rose Subject(s): Surrealism FROM THE MARBLE ROSE TO THE IRON ROSE, by ROBERT DESNOS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The huge white marble rose was alone on the empty square Last Line: Blotting-paper rose the cloud rose the wooden rose the iron rose Subject(s): Surrealism GO FOR BROKE, by ANDRE BRETON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the heart of the indian country of oklahoma Last Line: Run the head of the avalanche Subject(s): Native Americans; Oklahoma; Surrealism GREAT DAYS OF THE POET, by ROBERT DESNOS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The disciples of light never invented anything but Last Line: Because you never know Subject(s): Surrealism GREAT MASTURBATOR, by SALVADOR DALI Poem Source First Line: Despite the reigning darkness Last Line: Human face that resembles that of my mother Subject(s): Surrealism HAIR TONIC, by GISELE PRASSINOS Poem Source First Line: A man, a woman, an old man. They are in a hut Last Line: When they arrived, the woman had put a skein of red algiers silk on her foot Subject(s): Surrealism HALF A FIG HALF A GRAPE, by BENJAMIN PERET Poem Source First Line: If your sweater has a toothache give it an eyewash Last Line: Because the billiard tables are bored like locomotives %because Subject(s): Surrealism HALFWAY, by BENJAMIN PERET Poem Source First Line: The old dog and the ataxic flea Last Line: And who watches himself dissolve in the holy water %basin Subject(s): Surrealism HE DIDN'T KNOW WHAT TO DO WITH HIMSELF, by BENJAMIN PERET Poem Source First Line: I threw a few drops of water on a skull and Last Line: Hide their bellybuttons under little forget-me-nots Subject(s): Surrealism HELLO, by BENJAMIN PERET Poem Source First Line: My plane in flames my castle flooded with rhine %wine Last Line: I love you Subject(s): Surrealism HELLO FROM THE VALLEY, by ROBERT DESNOS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: At the bend of the mountain pass Last Line: And one of them raises a lamb to the sky surprised to be ali Subject(s): Surrealism HELLO, GOODBYE, by ROBERT DESNOS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It is night be the flame Last Line: Will stroll over your tombstones Subject(s): Surrealism HOMAGE TO GUILLAUME APOLLINAIRE, by FREDERIC SAUSER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The bread rises %france Last Line: And all of them speak the language of apollinaire Alternate Author Name(s): Cendrars, Blaise Subject(s): Apollinaire, Guillaume (1880-1918); Poetry And Poets; Surrealism HOMICIDAL AIR, by ROBERT DESNOS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The temple entrance puts on eyeliner Last Line: Handsome mountain-climber in the armor of the white prince Subject(s): Surrealism HUNDRED HEADLESS WOMAN, SELS., by MAX ERNST Poem Source First Line: And loplop, bird-superior, has transformed himself into flesh Last Line: At every stop Subject(s): Surrealism HYMN OF THE PATRIOTIC WAR VETERANS, by BENJAMIN PERET Poem Source First Line: Look how handsome I am Last Line: I'm an old war veteran %look how handsome I am Subject(s): Surrealism; Veterans I DON'T WANT TO, by BENJAMIN PERET Poem Source First Line: The last faint light resembling a rain of transparent Last Line: Have turned against their trainers Subject(s): Surrealism I'LL GO HOW ABOUT YOU, by BENJAMIN PERET Poem Source First Line: There was a big house %with a fire diver swimming on it Last Line: Tell me tell me where is the big house Subject(s): Surrealism I'M NOT ASLEEP, by BENJAMIN PERET Poem Source First Line: Tell me cobalt reflection Last Line: Endlessly spewing lava in the image of your face Subject(s): Surrealism I'VE DREAMED OF YOU SO MUCH, by ROBERT DESNOS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I've dreamed of you so much you're losing your reality Last Line: The hair, the teeth, the eyes Subject(s): Surrealism I'VE DREAMED OF YOU SO MUCH, by ROBERT DESNOS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I've dreamed of you so much you're losing your reality Last Line: On the sundial of your life Subject(s): Surrealism IDEE FIXE, by ROBERT DESNOS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I bring you a little bit of seaweed tangled with sea spray Last Line: But your hair so well-braided is shaped like a hand Subject(s): Surrealism IDENTY OF IMAGES, by ROBERT DESNOS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I fight furiously with animals and bottles Last Line: Sonorous coal coal pitiless coal Subject(s): Surrealism IDENTY OF IMAGES, by ROBERT DESNOS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I fight furiously with animals and bottles Last Line: And the terrible reflection of its embers on my monotonous path %coal resonant coal merciless coal Subject(s): Surrealism IF YOU ONLY KNEW, by ROBERT DESNOS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Far from me and like the stars, the sea Last Line: If you knew Subject(s): Surrealism IF YOU ONLY KNEW, by ROBERT DESNOS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Far from me and like the stars, the sea Last Line: If you only knew Subject(s): Surrealism IF, LIKE THE WINDS DRAWN ON THE COMPASS FACE, by ROBERT DESNOS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: An abdurd presence imposes itself on us %material, indifferent, and weithout rest Subject(s): Surrealism IMMACULATE CONCEPTION: THE 32 POSITIONS OF LOVE, by EUGENE GRINDEL Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Reciprocal love, the only love that should concern us here Last Line: Window has burned away the curtain of daylight Alternate Author Name(s): Eluard, Paul Subject(s): Erotic Love; Surrealism IN A SURREALIST YEAR, by LAWRENCE FERLINGHETTI Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: "full of our ashes Subject(s): Surrealism IN LONG AGO, by ROBERT DESNOS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In long ago I passed by the castle of leaves Last Line: In long ago you loved me Subject(s): Surrealism; Love; Past IN MY GLASS, by ROBERT DESNOS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What are you doing in my glass little giraffe Last Line: With all the flowers of my immense love for life Subject(s): Surrealism IN THE WHITE OF THEIR EYES, by BENJAMIN PERET Poem Source First Line: The window opens and closes Last Line: Fallen in love with a pair of sugar tongs Subject(s): Surrealism INTERSECTION, by ROBERT DESNOS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In this intersection there's an air of memories Last Line: Irremediably lost in the agony of forgetting Subject(s): Surrealism JESUS WAS TALKING TO HIS SISTER-IN-LAW, by BENJAMIN PERET Poem Source First Line: We had made manure Last Line: And exposed her belly Subject(s): Surrealism JOAN OF ARC, by BENJAMIN PERET Poem Source First Line: The little birds aren't on rollers Last Line: Joan of arc patron saint of bugs pray for the french Subject(s): Joan Of Arc (1412-1431); Surrealism LANGUAGE OF THE SAINTS, by BENJAMIN PERET Poem Source First Line: He came %he pissed Last Line: He will eat the blue asparagus of the official %ceremonies Subject(s): Surrealism LAST DON JUAN OF THE NIGHT, by BENJAMIN PERET Poem Source First Line: Number forty-two pisses on the sofa Last Line: Hurry up I want to go to sleep Subject(s): Surrealism LAW PAUL BONCOUR, by BENJAMIN PERET Poem Source First Line: You dead dogs go entertain the troops Last Line: Will massacre them like an amen Subject(s): Surrealism LEFT WITHOUT GIVING A FORWARDING ADDRESS, by BENJAMIN PERET Poem Source First Line: A small dog drowses on a rattan dish Last Line: Which is not in a knapsack Subject(s): Surrealism LEGACY, by ROBERT DESNOS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And here, father hugo, is your name on the walls Last Line: The lawyer has a name: france; and the legacy: freedom Subject(s): Surrealism LEND ME YOUR PEN, by BENJAMIN PERET Poem Source First Line: We turned into this avenue planted with blue %breasts Last Line: Guillotined in place of the minister of justice Subject(s): Surrealism LET'S BE SERIOUS, by ROBERT DESNOS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When death sets its scales of justice on my breast Last Line: My very heart that alone drives me to despair Subject(s): Surrealism LIFE-SAVING MEDAL, by PHILIPPE SOUPAULT Poem Text First Line: My nose is as long as a knife Last Line: Or someone else whose name I have forgotten. Subject(s): Surrealism LIFE-SAVING MEDAL, by PHILIPPE SOUPAULT Poem Source First Line: My nose cuts the air Last Line: Or somebody else whose name I can't remember Subject(s): Surrealism LISTEN, by BENJAMIN PERET Poem Source First Line: If you shelter me like a june bug in a closet Last Line: Like a table swept away by the flood Subject(s): Surrealism LITERATURE, by ROBERT DESNOS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Today I'd like to write beautiful verses Last Line: I've got another science I can confuse him with Subject(s): Surrealism; Poetry & Poets LITERATURE, by ROBERT DESNOS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Today I'd like to write beautiful verses Last Line: I've got another science I can confuse him with Subject(s): Surrealism LITTLE SONG OF THE MAIMED, by BENJAMIN PERET Poem Source First Line: Lend me your arm Last Line: And a peg leg Subject(s): Surrealism LONG LONG AGO, by ROBERT DESNOS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Long long ago I went through the castle of leaves Last Line: Long long ago you loved me Subject(s): Surrealism LONG LONG AGO, by ROBERT DESNOS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Long long ago I went through the castle of leaves Last Line: Long long ago you loved me Subject(s): Surrealism LOU THE SHRK LADY, by ROBERT DESNOS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You are neither beautiful nor rich Last Line: From the blows of a heavy hammer on a stone anvil Subject(s): Surrealism LOUIS XVI GOES TO THE GUILLOTINE, by BENJAMIN PERET Poem Source First Line: Stink stink stink Last Line: Like a dog in a washtub Subject(s): Surrealism LOW TIDE, by ROBERT DESNOS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: On the zinc bar of this little cafe the glass is shining Last Line: Whom one hears laughing by day when it's good to sleep Subject(s): Surrealism LYING DOWN, by ROBERT DESNOS Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: On my right, the sky, on my left, the sea Subject(s): Surrealism LYING DOWN, by ROBERT DESNOS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: On my right, the sky, on my left, the sea Last Line: In a frenzy of the useless Subject(s): Surrealism MAISON ARAGON, by TRISTAN TZARA Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Arp & the barbered arbor Last Line: O crisp chronometer Alternate Author Name(s): Rosenstock, Sami; Rosenfeld, S. Subject(s): Arp, Jean (1887-1966); Dadaism; Sculpture And Sculptors; Surrealism MAN AND WOMAN ABSOLUTELY WHITE, by ANDRE BRETON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the depths of the parasol I see the marvelous prostitutes Last Line: Their breasts in which the invisible blue milk cries as ever Subject(s): Prostitution; Surrealism MANIFESTO OF SURREALISM, SELS., by ANDRE BRETON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Surrealism, n. Pyschic automatism in its pure state Last Line: To live that are imaginary solutions. Existence is elsewhere Subject(s): Surrealism MEMOIRS OF BENJAMIN PERET, by BENJAMIN PERET Poem Source First Line: A bear was eating breasts Last Line: And the rest went into a newspaper for unwed %mothers Subject(s): Surrealism MEN, by ROBERT DESNOS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Men with foul tempers Last Line: Men of the early morning Subject(s): Surrealism MEN ON EARTH, by ROBERT DESNOS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Four of us were at a table Last Line: In many different veins but in the veins of men %of men on e Subject(s): Surrealism MEN PO MEN WITH GLASSES, by THERESE PLANTIER Poem Source Subject(s): Surrealism; Women's Rights MERMAID, by ROBERT DESNOS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Once not upon a time Last Line: There are other mermaids Subject(s): Surrealism MID-WAY, by ROBERT DESNOS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There's a precise moment in time Last Line: And what better could he do? Subject(s): Surrealism; Middle Age MID-WAY, by ROBERT DESNOS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There's a precise moment in time Last Line: And what better could he do Subject(s): Surrealism MIDWAY, by ROBERT DESNOS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There is a precise instant in time Last Line: And what could he do %that's any better? Subject(s): Surrealism MILLIMETER APART, by BENJAMIN PERET Poem Source First Line: The cobblestone worn away like a shabby beard Last Line: And are called dandelion puffs Subject(s): Surrealism MIRROR AND THE WORLD, by ROBERT DESNOS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Every day time with its sharp teeth Last Line: Between night and day Subject(s): Surrealism MONDAY, by BENJAMIN PERET Poem Source First Line: If you stay beside me like the equestrian statue Last Line: Like fountains of ripe bananas Subject(s): Surrealism MORNING STAR, by ROBERT DESNOS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It's the call from the village to the lazy shepherds Last Line: Which flames and rises with the crack of lightning Subject(s): Surrealism MOUTH-SHAPED HEART, by ROBERT DESNOS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Her coat was dragging like a sinking sun Last Line: And knives pierce me with the sharpness of your looks Subject(s): Surrealism MY BABY, by ROBERT DESNOS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My baby' says he and 'my baby' says she Last Line: Even on new year's eve Subject(s): Surrealism MY FINAL AGONIES; TO YVES TANGUY, by BENJAMIN PERET Poem Source First Line: 270 - the birches are worn out by mirrors Last Line: 1922 - they're burning the social register in the place de l'opera Subject(s): Surrealism MY LOVE SPEAK TO ME, by ROBERT DESNOS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When you love me, let me surrender Last Line: My love speak to me Subject(s): Surrealism MY MERMAID, by ROBERT DESNOS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My mermaid is blue like the veins where she swims Last Line: I don't trust him as he might be lying Subject(s): Surrealism MY MOTHER IS DEAD, by THERESE PLANTIER Poem Source First Line: My mother is daed. That simple sentence (if it is a sentence, it Subject(s): Surrealism; Women's Rights NEBULOUS, by BENJAMIN PERET Poem Source First Line: When the night of butter coming out of the churn Last Line: Where the echo of your voice finds itself Subject(s): Surrealism NEVER ANYONE BUT YOU, by ROBERT DESNOS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Never anyone but you despite stars and loneliness Last Line: And you never anyone but you Subject(s): Surrealism; Past; Love NEVER ANYONE BUT YOU, by ROBERT DESNOS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Never anyone but you despite stars and loneliness Last Line: And you never anyone but you Subject(s): Surrealism NEW WINE, by BENJAMIN PERET Poem Source First Line: A penny which is nothing but an adam's apple Last Line: What good is lemon juice then Subject(s): Surrealism NIGHT SUICIDE, by ROBERT DESNOS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: On the zinc bar of this little cafe the glass is shining Last Line: The little girl goes to school reciting her lesson Subject(s): Surrealism NIGHT WATCHMAN OF PONT-AU-CHANGE, by ROBERT DESNOS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I am the night watchman of rue de flandre Last Line: Even if hidden by clouds it will still be there %goodmorning, goodmorning, with all of my heart bonj Subject(s): France; Surrealism; Watchmen; World War Ii NIGHTFALL, by ROBERT DESNOS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You can leave when you want to Last Line: Nerve in the passionate lamp extinquished at the end of day / I sleep Subject(s): Surrealism; Sleep NIGHTFALL, by ROBERT DESNOS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You can leave when you want to Last Line: Nerve in the passionate lamp extinguished at the end of day Subject(s): Surrealism NIGHTS, by ROBERT DESNOS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Women of high airs Last Line: Do you like the strong wind Subject(s): Surrealism NO, LOVE IS NOT DEAD, by ROBERT DESNOS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: No, love is not dead in this heart these eyes and this mouth Last Line: On this vile earth for nothing but his love of you. Subject(s): Surrealism NO, LOVE IS NOT DEAD, by ROBERT DESNOS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: No, love is not dead in this heart these eyes and this mouth Last Line: I'm robert desnos who wants to be remembered %on this vile earth for nothing but his love of you Subject(s): Surrealism NOW IT'S NIGHT, by ROBERT DESNOS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You'll go away when you want to Last Line: I am sleeping Subject(s): Surrealism; Sleep NUNGESSER UND COLI SIND VERRECKT, by BENJAMIN PERET Poem Source First Line: They took off %and tricolor flags came out of their assholes Last Line: And the usual complete idiots found in every country Subject(s): Surrealism; World War Ii O YOUTH, by ROBERT DESNOS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O youth, the wedding is over Last Line: I will listen to the sea rise in my heart Subject(s): Surrealism OBSESSION, by ROBERT DESNOS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I bring you a bit of seaweed which was tangled Last Line: But your neatly fixed hair has the shape of a hand Subject(s): Surrealism; Hair ODORS OF LOVE, by BENJAMIN PERET Poem Source First Line: If there is one pleasure Last Line: Matter to our mingled initials %it is noon Subject(s): Surrealism OF THE FLOWER OF LOVE AND THE WANDERING HORSES, by ROBERT DESNOS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the forest lived a giant flower that risked killing Last Line: The wandering horses Subject(s): Surrealism; Horses; Flowers; Trees; Love OF THE FLOWER OF LOVE AND THE WANDERING HORSES, by ROBERT DESNOS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the forest lived a giant flower that risked killing Last Line: The wandering horses Subject(s): Surrealism ON ALL FOURS, by BENJAMIN PERET Poem Source First Line: Wiped out by the hugesness of the big electric crane Last Line: And that brute of brutes the broken salad-bowl %clenching its fist Subject(s): Surrealism ON LOVE: GUILLAUME APOLLINAIRE, by EDWARD HIRSCH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It's the right time to pollinate the air Last Line: Come down to find me singing in the flames Subject(s): Apollinaire, Guillaume (1880-1918); Poetry And Poets; Surrealism ON THE ROAD TO SAN ROMANO, by ANDRE BRETON Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Poetry like love is made in a bed Last Line: Against all the misery of the world Subject(s): Surrealism; Poetry & Poets ON THE ROAD TO SAN ROMANO, by ANDRE BRETON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Poetry like love is made in a bed Subject(s): Surrealism ON THE ROAD TO SAN ROMANO, by ANDRE BRETON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Poetry is made in bed like love Last Line: Against all access by the misery of the world Subject(s): Love; Poetry And Poets; Surrealism ONCE THERE WAS A LEAF, by ROBERT DESNOS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Once there was a leaf with its lines Last Line: The earth all alone crossing the sky %the earth Subject(s): Surrealism ONE MORE ONE LESS, by BENJAMIN PERET Poem Source First Line: A thousand umbrellas and a thousand peppermint %bottles Last Line: Them for such a long time Subject(s): Surrealism ONLY ONE THING ON HIS MIND, by ROBERT DESNOS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I'd spun it out that morning Last Line: They mill in sempiternal eternity Subject(s): Surrealism OVERDUE BALANCE SHEET, by THERESE PLANTIER Poem Source First Line: Forgot to mail my letter to my friend death Last Line: Burned a hole in my pants;uit with a cigarette %and all at once caught sight of night Subject(s): Surrealism OX AND THE ROSE, by ROBERT DESNOS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In league with saltpeter and mountains, the black ox Last Line: Like a phantom flower Subject(s): Surrealism POEM TO SHOUT IN THE RUINS, by LOUIS ARAGON Poem Source First Line: Let's spit the two of us let's spit %on what we loved Last Line: Your love %yes let's spit Subject(s): Surrealism POEM-OBJECT, by ANDRE BRETON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: These no-man's-lands and the moon where I wander outrun by the Last Line: Shadow tied down to the house of my heart Subject(s): Surrealism PORTRAIT OF LOUIS ARAGON, by BENJAMIN PERET Poem Source First Line: The benefits of growth Subject(s): Aragon, Louis (1897-1983); Poetry And Poets; Surrealism POST NO BILLS, by BENJAMIN PERET Poem Source First Line: Nevermore will the bones of the wind startle the Last Line: He would see his brother through it Subject(s): Surrealism PROMONTORY, by ROBERT DESNOS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If phaedra, after her death, finds you again, hippolyte Last Line: Phaedra, your memory weds him to his amazement Subject(s): Surrealism PROPHECY, by ROBERT DESNOS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: From a square in paris such a clear spring will gush Last Line: Their birds and their flowers Subject(s): Surrealism RIGHT NOW, by BENJAMIN PERET Poem Source First Line: Through the fault which has opened up from the Last Line: Will dare speak like an equation Subject(s): Surrealism RIVER WITH WATER LILIES, by ROBERT DESNOS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The river with water lilies Last Line: That flows between two bridges Subject(s): Surrealism ROBERT DESNOS, by STEPHEN ROBERT GIBSON Poem Source First Line: I am going to dedicate my life to the writing of Last Line: And begin the search for you %through these dreams Subject(s): Life; Love; Poetry And Poets; Surrealism ROBERT DESNOS, by DEAN YOUNG Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A surrealist in the twenties, praised Last Line: Over the sundial of our lives Subject(s): Desnos, Robert (1900-1945); Surrealism; Breton, Andre (1896-1966) ROPE, by ROBERT DESNOS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If I like trains it's no doubt because they go faster Last Line: Help %I'm drowning Subject(s): Surrealism ROSE BY THE SEINE, by ROBERT DESNOS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The rose that blooms Last Line: It is death that makes you afraid Subject(s): Surrealism ROUTE, by PHILIPPE SOUPAULT Poem Source First Line: Her voice roosts in my memory Last Line: Pebbles collide, sound the stroke of noon Subject(s): Surrealism RUMINANT, by BENJAMIN PERET Poem Source First Line: The boy opens his belly like a billfold Last Line: As if you were making a strawberry soda Subject(s): Surrealism SATYR, by ROBERT DESNOS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Out of the dark at last Last Line: His tumultuous dreams Subject(s): Surrealism SEASONS, by ROBERT DESNOS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The day is as it should be and flows with the fullness of time Last Line: Drag on the paths returning to the borders Subject(s): Surrealism SECOND SONG OF THE MARIGOLD (THE FLOWER OF WORRY), by ROBERT DESNOS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Having said having done Last Line: And empty our glasss for the marigold Subject(s): Surrealism SECRET, by ROBERT DESNOS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The secret squats in the tall grass to rest Last Line: Fear waking the sleeping secret Subject(s): Surrealism SHADOWS! OH SHADOWS!!, by ROBERT DESNOS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Frightened sycamore famous division of time flower of animal silence Last Line: Your eyes your lovely eyes devour the obscurity of silence and forgetting Subject(s): Surrealism SHOOT IT, PASS IT, by ANDRE BRETON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My wife whose hair is a brush fire Last Line: My wife with eyes that are the equal of water and air and earth and fire Subject(s): Marriage; Surrealism SKY SONG, by ROBERT DESNOS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The flower of the alps told the seashell: 'you're shining' Last Line: I said: she's beautiful, so beautiful, she moves me Subject(s): Surrealism; Beauty SKY SONG, by ROBERT DESNOS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The flower of the alps told the seashell: 'you're shining' Last Line: I said: 'she's beautiful, so beautiful, she moves me' Subject(s): Surrealism SLEEP SPACES, by ROBERT DESNOS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the night there are of course the seven wonders Last Line: In the daylight too Subject(s): Surrealism; Sleep SLEEP SPACES, by ROBERT DESNOS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the night there are of course the seven wonders Last Line: In the daylight too Subject(s): Surrealism SLEEPLESS NIGHTS, by BENJAMIN PERET Poem Source First Line: Past the crate of camembert Last Line: Like a cigarette butt Subject(s): Surrealism SOIL OF COMPIEGNE, by ROBERT DESNOS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Chalk and flint and grass and chalk and flint Last Line: May we remember them Subject(s): Surrealism SOMEBODY'S RINGING, by BENJAMIN PERET Poem Source First Line: A flea's jump like a wheelbarrow dancing on the Last Line: An island where I'd like to sleep with you Subject(s): Surrealism SONG FOR THE BEAUTIFUL SEASON, by ROBERT DESNOS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Nothing looks more like inspiration Last Line: I love and I sing the summer, season of my birth Subject(s): Surrealism SONG OF TABOO, by ROBERT DESNOS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The taboo is on you, the taboo is on us! So sing the heroes who are Last Line: And blood to draw our shadows from their torment. The taboo is on %you, the taboo is on us Subject(s): Surrealism SONG OF THE ROAD, by ROBERT DESNOS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Eusebe has fertilized his garden Last Line: Eusebe put on his lawn Subject(s): Surrealism SORROWS OF LOVE, by ROBERT DESNOS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O sorrows of love! Last Line: Her hair, her teeth, her eyes Subject(s): Surrealism SOURCE, by BENJAMIN PERET Poem Source First Line: It's rosa minus rosa Last Line: In which rosa's image will be seen surrounded by a %rosa halo Subject(s): Surrealism SPILLED BLOOD, by BENJAMIN PERET Poem Source First Line: The ashes which are the cigar's malady Last Line: But the sun is his pocket had put on its cap Subject(s): Surrealism SPORTING GOODS, by PHILIPPE SOUPAULT Poem Source First Line: Brave as a postage stamp, he went his way Last Line: And there are lots of other things, too Subject(s): Surrealism SPORTING GOODS, by PHILIPPE SOUPAULT Poem Source First Line: Brave as a postage stamp Last Line: And also many other things Subject(s): Surrealism SPRING, by ROBERT DESNOS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You, rrose selavy, wander out of reach Last Line: The moment the sun will break the bushes into flower Subject(s): Surrealism; Roses; Death; Dancing & Dancers SPRING, by ROBERT DESNOS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You, rrose selavy, wander out of reach Last Line: When the sun will break the bushes into flower Subject(s): Surrealism SPURT OF BLOOD, by ANTONIN ARTAUD Poem Source First Line: The young man %I love you and life is wonderful Last Line: The virgin! So that's what he was looking for Subject(s): Surrealism SQUARE OF THE HYPOTENUSE, by BENJAMIN PERET Poem Source First Line: First flower of the chestnut tree that rises like an %egg Last Line: Wait %I am waiting Subject(s): Surrealism STALE BREAD, by BENJAMIN PERET Poem Source First Line: After having reflected deeply on the origin of %acorns Last Line: Like some salad bowl falling from the fifth floor %on an old lightning rod Subject(s): Surrealism STARTLED, by ROBERT DESNOS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: On the road back from the summits met by Last Line: I have leaves in my hands leaves in my mouth Subject(s): Surrealism SUICIDE OF NIGHT, by ROBERT DESNOS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The green boughs dip when the dragonfly appears Last Line: The little girl goes off to school reciting her lesson Subject(s): Surrealism SUMMER DUSK, by ROBERT DESNOS Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Summer dusk bathed in rose mist Subject(s): Surrealism SUMMER DUSK, by ROBERT DESNOS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Summer dusk bathed in rose mist Last Line: But the window will go on trembling over the city Subject(s): Surrealism SUN'S DESPAIR, by ROBERT DESNOS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What strange sound glided the length of the bannister down to where Last Line: Will the stairway plunge even-deeper? Will it clim even-higher? %dream accept dreaming it's the poem Subject(s): Surrealism SUNDAY, by PHILIPPE SOUPAULT Poem Source First Line: The biplane shuttles through the telegraph wires Last Line: The lady has lost her smile in the woods Subject(s): Surrealism SURREALIST IN TIME, by MICHAEL SPRING Poem Source First Line: There are no more trees Last Line: They know what time it is %they are hungry Subject(s): Paintings And Painters; Surrealism; Trees SWIM, by ROBERT DESNOS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Where are you headed, you bunch of fakes Last Line: As a razor's edge Subject(s): Surrealism TALE, by ROBERT DESNOS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Tom thumb loses a slew of keys in the dark forest path Last Line: That wanders from cellar to eave Subject(s): Surrealism TALE OF A BEAR, by ROBERT DESNOS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A bear made her way into the city Last Line: She was even jostled Subject(s): Surrealism TALE OF A BEAR, by ROBERT DESNOS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A bear made her way into the city Last Line: The cries, for the songs of my friends Subject(s): Surrealism TALE OF A CAMEL, by ROBERT DESNOS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Tonight the toothless camel Last Line: Themselves sunk into funnels Subject(s): Surrealism TALK TO ME, by BENJAMIN PERET Poem Source First Line: The lampblack the animal black the black black Last Line: Sometimes green like a fountain trickling out of clock Subject(s): Surrealism THE GREAT DAYS OF THE POET, by ROBERT DESNOS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The disciples of light never invented anything but Last Line: Because you never know Subject(s): Surrealism THE VOICE OF ROBERT DESNOS, by ROBERT DESNOS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: So like a flower and a current of air Last Line: The one I love does not answer Subject(s): Surrealism THE WIND AT NIGHT, by ROBERT DESNOS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: On oceanic oceans the sunk sink Last Line: But where is heaven on earth Subject(s): Surrealism THEN THE TRUMPET, by ROBERT DESNOS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Then the trumpet will sound at the city gates Last Line: Sleeping in the night before the first dawn %of returning ha Subject(s): Surrealism THERE IS ONLY ONE WONDER ON EARTH, by BENJAMIN PERET Poem Source First Line: I only think about god Last Line: And you will see the pope %die of pneumonia Subject(s): Surrealism THIS BEAUTY HERE, by ROBERT DESNOS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When age will have withered these eyes and this mouth Last Line: As the coals surviving a blaze Subject(s): Surrealism THIS HEART THAT HATED WAR, by ROBERT DESNOS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This heart that hated war is now breathing for the struggle Last Line: Because these hearts that once hated war beat for liberty to the %rhythm of the season and the tides Subject(s): Surrealism THOUSAND TIMES, by BENJAMIN PERET Poem Source First Line: Among the gilded debris of the gasworks Last Line: Where no one would ever receive a call Subject(s): Surrealism THREE STARS, by ROBERT DESNOS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I've lost my regret of evil with the passing years Last Line: That's what the crystal dress said to me Subject(s): Surrealism TILL TOMORROW, by BENJAMIN PERET Poem Source First Line: Let the buckwheat die if the sparrow's teeth Last Line: You smell like a goat hey crab louse Subject(s): Surrealism TIME OF THE DUNGEONS, by ROBERT DESNOS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Have you forgotten the password already Last Line: Serpents coiled in the underbrush Subject(s): Surrealism TO BE CONTINUED, by BENJAMIN PERET Poem Source First Line: Nothing to say about the jonquil that smiles at me Last Line: Like a mosquito in the cell of my skull Subject(s): Surrealism TO CONQUER THE DAY, TO CONQUER THE NIGHT, by ROBERT DESNOS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: This libertarian who weeps and laughs Subject(s): Surrealism TO PASS THE TIME, by BENJAMIN PERET Poem Source First Line: In may or september Last Line: Trees %in a keyhole Subject(s): Surrealism TO SLEEP STANDING UP, by BENJAMIN PERET Poem Source First Line: When the fish leave the eyes of the bride Last Line: Like a bellrope that you yank out %to the hilt Subject(s): Surrealism TO THE ENDS OF THE EARTH, by ROBERT DESNOS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: That bellowing in the black street at whose end Last Line: Who do not understand his language Subject(s): Surrealism TO THE HEADLESS, by ROBERT DESNOS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Homes with no windows, no doors, with roofs caved in Last Line: Rings with the echoes of everlasting toasts Subject(s): Surrealism TO WAIT, by BENJAMIN PERET Poem Source First Line: Bruised by huge slabs of time Last Line: Solemn as oysters Subject(s): Surrealism TO WAIT ON THE STREET CORNER, by BENJAMIN PERET Poem Source First Line: The storm bursts at the back of the most secret %drawers Last Line: Go off arm in arm like drunk sailors Subject(s): Surrealism TO WASH YOUR HANDS, by BENJAMIN PERET Poem Source First Line: He took his dishes to the gulf stream to wash them Last Line: Because from them comes the sahara desert %and several others Subject(s): Surrealism TODAY I TOOK A WALK, by ROBERT DESNOS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Today I took a walk with my friend Last Line: So I came back among the living Subject(s): Surrealism TOMORROW, by ROBERT DESNOS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A hundred thousand years old, I would still have the strength Last Line: Which will prove that at last we are living in the present Subject(s): Surrealism; Time; Patience TOMORROW, by ROBERT DESNOS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A hundred thousand years old, I would still have the strength Last Line: Which will prove that at last we are living in the present Subject(s): Surrealism TORTURED GIRLS, by BENJAMIN PERET Poem Source First Line: Near a house of sun and white hair Last Line: That the forest waits for near the house Subject(s): Surrealism TOUR DE FRANCE BICYCLE RACER, by BENJAMIN PERET Poem Source First Line: Whether our ears are chinese lanterns or dead Last Line: And the thousand benedictions of the cow dung will %yellow him no more Subject(s): Surrealism TOUR OF THE TOMB, by ROBERT DESNOS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: By loving so much, I lost myself in the sea. And what a sea! Last Line: Against my love Subject(s): Surrealism TOUR OF THE TOMB, by ROBERT DESNOS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: By loving so much, I lost myself in the sea. And what a sea! Last Line: My moral nobility opposed to the thousand obstacles the world sets %against my love Subject(s): Surrealism TOWARD THE WEST, by BENJAMIN PERET Poem Source First Line: Better to sew up your hands Last Line: Than to howl at the moon Subject(s): Surrealism TRANCE EVENT, by ROBERT DESNOS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: (desnos, spontaneously writing): the tower Last Line: Because you never know Subject(s): Surrealism TRANCE EVENT, by ROBERT DESNOS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: (desnos, spontaneously writing): the tower Last Line: F sharp %(desnos wakes up) Subject(s): Surrealism TRUMPED-UP QUARREL, by BENJAMIN PERET Poem Source First Line: Chatter into the ears of the deaf Last Line: Who will light his lamps that evening %with his moustache Subject(s): Surrealism UNDER COVER OF NIGHT, by ROBERT DESNOS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: To slip into your shadow under cover of night Last Line: I knew it all along Subject(s): Surrealism UNDER COVER OF NIGHT, by ROBERT DESNOS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: To slip into your shadow under cover of night Last Line: I knew it all along Subject(s): Surrealism UNHISTORICAL EVENTS, by BOB KAUFMAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Appollinaire / never knew about rock gut charlie Subject(s): Apollinaire, Guillaume (1880-1918); Modern Life; Poetry & Poets; Surrealism UNHISTORICAL EVENTS, by BOB KAUFMAN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Appollinaire %never knew about rock gut charlie Last Line: And show him the little unpainted arrows Subject(s): Apollinaire, Guillaume (1880-1918); Life, Modern; Poetry And Poets; Surrealism VERSE ON THE BUTCHER, by ROBERT DESNOS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lovely one, if you wish I'll make your bed Last Line: I will watch over it like a hangman over a scaffold Subject(s): Surrealism VERSE ON THE GLASS OF WINE, by ROBERT DESNOS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When the train leaves don't wave Last Line: Of your lips and your mouth Subject(s): Surrealism VERSE ON THE PORTES SAINT-MARTIN AND SAINT-DENIS, by ROBERT DESNOS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Porte saint-martin, porte saint-denis Last Line: In bright sunshine, on a beautiful morning Subject(s): Surrealism; Paris VERSE ON THE PORTES SAINT-MARTIN AND SAINT-DENIS, by ROBERT DESNOS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Porte saint-martin, porte saint-denis Last Line: To leave singing in a lovely morning Subject(s): Surrealism VERSE ON THE RUE DE BAGNOLET, by ROBERT DESNOS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The sun of the rue de bagnolet Last Line: Not like the others Subject(s): Surrealism VERSE ON THE SUMMERTIME SIDEWALK, by ROBERT DESNOS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Let's lie down on the paving stones Last Line: And the first star above the houses Subject(s): Surrealism VERSES ON RUE SAINT-MARTIN, by ROBERT DESNOS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I don't like rue saint-martin anymore Last Line: Andre platard left the rue saint-martin Subject(s): Surrealism VOICE OF ROBERT DESNOS, by ROBERT DESNOS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: So like a flower and a current of air Last Line: The one I love does not answer Subject(s): Surrealism WANDERING AROUND LOST, by BENJAMIN PERET Poem Source First Line: How a turquoise titmouse beats its wings in the %cream Last Line: Peekaboo here I am Subject(s): Surrealism WARPED, by BENJAMIN PERET Poem Source First Line: The sugar coiffed in a priest's disgusting hat Last Line: Forgotten like a penny Subject(s): Surrealism WAY A HAND AT THE MOMENT OF DEATH, by ROBERT DESNOS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The way a hand is raised at the moment of death or shipwreck Last Line: I'll lie. %I'll say you were my mistress %though there's really no point to it: %you and I will soon Subject(s): Surrealism WE'LL LAUGH ABOUT IT, by ROBERT DESNOS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We'll laugh about it later Last Line: Where it feels good to live and to live forever Subject(s): Surrealism WHAT DO YOU WANT ME TO SAY, by ROBERT DESNOS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It's the pure truth Last Line: And leave me in war Subject(s): Surrealism WHEN WILL IT BE, by BENJAMIN PERET Poem Source First Line: Tomorrow will explode with storms of lunar %eclipses Last Line: I have seen you flag of coal in the blue stars Subject(s): Surrealism WHERE ARE YOU, by BENJAMIN PERET Poem Source First Line: I would like to talk to you cracked crystal howling Last Line: Rising over its blackbird head Subject(s): Surrealism WINDOW, by ROBERT DESNOS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Through a golden yellow window Last Line: A scream never having broken four legs %of an armchair Subject(s): Surrealism WINK, by BENJAMIN PERET Poem Source First Line: Flocks of parrots flap through my head when I see Last Line: Rosa of sea foam turned into crystal %rosa Subject(s): Surrealism WITH HEART OF OAK, by ROBERT DESNOS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: With the tender and hard woods of these trees, with heart of oak Last Line: With oaken heart and birchbark Subject(s): Surrealism; Trees WITH HEART OF OAK, by ROBERT DESNOS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: With the tender and hard woods of these trees, with heart of oak Last Line: With heart of oak and birchbark, with the sky, with the oceans, with the slippers Subject(s): Surrealism WORDS FROM THE ROCKS, by ROBERT DESNOS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The azure queen and the madman of the void go by in a cab Last Line: Without even broken bottles Subject(s): Surrealism WORDS FROM THE ROCKS, by ROBERT DESNOS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The azure queen and the madman of the void go by in a cab Last Line: Without even broken bottles Subject(s): Surrealism YOU TAKE THE FIRST STREET TO THE RIGHT, by ROBERT DESNOS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: And your droning isolation from the rest of the world Subject(s): Surrealism; Solitude; Alienation (social Psychology) YOU TAKE THE FIRST STREET TO THE RIGHT, by ROBERT DESNOS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: And your droning isolation from the rest of the world Subject(s): Surrealism YOUR LOVERS AND MISTRESSES, by ROBERT DESNOS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You don't write your initials with chalk Last Line: River where a hundred fish are fluttering Subject(s): Surrealism |
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