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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
AU BORD DE DEAU, by RENE FRANCOIS ARMAND PRUDHOMME Poet's Biography First Line: To sit and watch the wavelets as they flow Last Line: Love -- hand in hand. Alternate Author Name(s): Sully-prudhomme Subject(s): Love | |||
TO SIT and watch the wavelets as they flow, Two, -- side by side; To see the gliding clouds that come and go, And mark them glide; If from low roofs the smoke is wreathing pale, To watch it wreathe; If flowers around breathe perfume on the gale, To feel them breathe; If the bee sips the honeyed fruit that glistens, To sip the dew: If the bird warbles while the forest listens, To listen too; Beneath the willow where the brook is singing, To hear its song: Nor feel, while round us that sweet dream is clinging, The hours too long; To know one only deep o'ermastering passion, -- The love we share; To let the world go worrying in its fashion With one care -- We only, while around all weary grow, Unwearied stand, And midst the fickle changes others know, Love -- hand in hand. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE INVENTION OF LOVE by MATTHEA HARVEY TWO VIEWS OF BUSON by ROBERT HASS A LOVE FOR FOUR VOICES: HOMAGE TO FRANZ JOSEPH HAYDN by ANTHONY HECHT AN OFFERING FOR PATRICIA by ANTHONY HECHT LATE AFTERNOON: THE ONSLAUGHT OF LOVE by ANTHONY HECHT A SWEETENING ALL AROUND ME AS IT FALLS by JANE HIRSHFIELD ALONE by RENE FRANCOIS ARMAND PRUDHOMME BEFORE THE APOLLO OF THE BELVEDERE by RENE FRANCOIS ARMAND PRUDHOMME |
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