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Subject: VILLON, FRANCOIS (1431-1463)
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A BALLAD OF FRANCOIS VILLON, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Bird of the bitter bright grey golden morn
Last Line: Villon, our sad bad glad mad brother's name?
Subject(s): Villon, Francois (1431-1463)


A BALLADE OF BALLADE-MONGERS; AFTER THE MANNER OF VILLON OF PARIS, by AUGUSTUS M. MOORE    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                
First Line: In ballades things always contrive to get lost
Last Line: Who was the man in the iron mask.
Subject(s): Villon, Francois (1431-1463)


BEST, by GREGORY ORR    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The greeks said: never to be born is best
Last Line: But the greeks were wrong: to live and love is best.
Subject(s): Greece; Life; Love; Poetry & Poets; Villon, Francois (1431-1463); Greeks


CHILDREN OF LILITH, by GEORGE SYLVESTER VIERECK    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: Now tell me, villon, where is he
Last Line: What, brother villon, shall we say?
Subject(s): Children; Jesus Christ; Nero, Roman Emperor (37-68 A.d.); Rome, Italy; Villon, Francois (1431-1463); Childhood


FRANCOIS VILLON, by SILAS WEIR MITCHELL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Our good duke charles, you tell me, fain would know
Last Line: A sorry vintage.
Subject(s): Happiness; Love - Complaints; Sex; Villon, Francois (1431-1463); War; Joy; Delight


NON-WORLD, by JAMES LAUGHLIN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Is too much with me daylong and
Last Line: Jesse jackson and help him dis- %pose of that hollywood cowboy
Subject(s): Herodotus (484-420 B.c.); Jackson, Jesse (b. 1941); Ovid (43 B.c.-17 A.d.); Sappho (610-580 B.c.); Villon, Francois (1431-1463); Wilmot, John (1647-1680)


ON RUE SAINT-JACQUES, by ANDRE SALMON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: When I lived one hard winter on rue saint-jacques
Last Line: Item, all the past, and my regrets.
Subject(s): France; Villon, Francois (1431-1463)


THE DISPUTE OF THE HEART AND BODY OF FRANCOIS VILLON, by FRANCOIS VILLON    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: Who is this I hear? Lo, this is I, thine heart
Last Line: I say no more. -- I care not though thou cease. --
Alternate Author Name(s): Montcorbier, Francois De
Subject(s): Bodies; Hearts; Villon, Francois (1431-1463)


THE LAST BALLADE; MASTER FRANCOIS VILLON LOQUITUR, by THOMAS BEER    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                
First Line: Snow -- and still snow -- and is night coming, sister
Last Line: One earthly thought -- now comes the last envoi.
Subject(s): Villon, Francois (1431-1463); Yale University


THIS IS THE MORTE SEASON, by JAMES LAUGHLIN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Of my heart que les loups se
Last Line: Because I love you too much
Subject(s): Villon, Francois (1431-1463)


VILLON, by BASIL BUNTING    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: He whom we anatomized
Subject(s): Villon, Francois (1431-1463)


VILLON, by SIEGFRIED SASSOON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: They threw me from the gates: my matted hair
Last Line: He hath put by as though they had not been.
Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings; Villon, Francois (1431-1463)


VILLON IN PRISON, by HOWARD CHANDLER ROBBINS    Poem Text                    
First Line: A word with thee, my friend o' the rusty keys!
Last Line: How did the first line run? -- poor jehanne, poor jehanne!
Subject(s): Prisons & Prisoners; Villon, Francois (1431-1463); Yale University


VILLON'S STRAIGHT TIP TO ALL CROSS COVES, by WILLIAM ERNEST HENLEY    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Suppose you screeve? Or go cheap-jack?
Last Line: Booze and the blowens cop the lot.
Alternate Author Name(s): Henley, W. E.
Subject(s): Villon, Francois (1431-1463)