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Subject: VERLAINE, PAUL (1844-1896)
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` AKHMATOVA & MODIGLIANI, by KATE NORTHROP    Poem Source                    
First Line: It's paris, 1910, after her first marriage %and usually they meet
Last Line: In a kitchen and a stray cat %slips quickly through the flowerpots
Subject(s): Akhmatova, Anna (1889-1966); Modigliani, Amedeo (1884-1920); Poetry And Poets; Verlaine, Paul (1844-1896)


BIRDS IN THE NIGHT, by LUIS CERNUDA    Poem Source                    
First Line: The french government - or maybe it was the english - placed
Last Line: Better if it were a cockroach, simply to squash it
Subject(s): Homosexuality; Rimbaud, Arthur (1854-1891); Verlaine, Paul (1844-1896)


LOST IN TRANSLATION; FOR RICHARD HOWARD, by JAMES INGRAM MERRILL            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A card table in the library stands ready
Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Rilke, Rainer Maria (1875-1926); Translating & Interpreting; Verlaine, Paul (1844-1896)


LOST IN TRANSLATION; FOR RICHARD HOWARD, by JAMES INGRAM MERRILL    Poem Source     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A card table in the library stands ready
Last Line: To shade and fiber, milk and memory
Subject(s): Poetry And Poets; Rilke, Rainer Maria (1875-1926); Translating And Interpreting; Verlaine, Paul (1844-1896)


MUSEUM: LIMITS (OR GOOD-BYES), by JORGE LUIS BORGES    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: There's a line of verlaine's that I'm not going to
Last Line: Death invades me, constantly
Subject(s): Books; Poetry And Poets; Verlaine, Paul (1844-1896)


TOMB (OF PAUL VERLAINE), by STEPHANE MALLARME    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: The dark rock angered to be blown by the blast
Last Line: A stream not very deep and calumniated death.
Subject(s): Poetry And Poets - French; Verlaine, Paul (1844-1896)


TOMB OF PAUL VERLAINE, by FRANCIS GOLFFING    Poem Source                    
First Line: The outraged boulder which the north wind rolled
Subject(s): Verlaine, Paul (1844-1896)


VARIATION ON VERLAINE, by THOMAS STURGE MOORE    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The body slumbers, humble as the dead
Alternate Author Name(s): Moore, T. Sturge
Subject(s): Verlaine, Paul (1844-1896)


VERLAINE, by RICHARD HOVEY    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Avid of life and love, insatiate vagabond
Last Line: In some fair heaven the christ has set apart for fauns.
Subject(s): Verlaine, Paul (1844-1896); Wandering & Wanderers; Wanderlust; Vagabonds; Tramps; Hoboes


VERLAINE, by JOHN RICHARD REED    Poem Source                    
First Line: You didn't notice me here, I think, now that
Subject(s): Verlaine, Paul (1844-1896)


VERLAINE, by EDWIN ARLINGTON ROBINSON    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Why do you dig like long-clawed scavengers
Last Line: Can blot the star that shines on paris now.
Subject(s): Verlaine, Paul (1844-1896)