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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
IF GUILLAUME'S DEATH HAD BEEN CHRISTIAN, by MAX JACOB Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: And I'd been so sure he was going to die that through my tears I'd Last Line: Guillaume apollinaire. But finish your drawing of his death and put a %silhouette of me on the lower | |||
And I'd been so sure he was going to die that through my tears I'd drawn him on his deathbed. I must confess I even had formal con-cerns. Next day he was walking around Paris, strong and majestic. One morning at Sacré-Coeur de Montmartre two big black cats squeezed me between them. A voice said "Don't be afraid!" Sacré Coeur looked like one of those pink fortresses that adorn the summits of Italian hills and he, Guillaume, high above, was like a bird with a man's head. Was he dead, our dear lyricist? My drawing wasn't finished. I bumped into him leading a group of disciples: was it he or Dante? Very much alive. Of course! Guillaume was not dead. A stout and clever priest said to me "There's no one more alive than Guillaume Apollinaire. But finish your drawing of his death and put a silhouette of me on the lower left-hand side." | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...ARABELLA STUART by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS TO THE RIVER CHARLES by HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW ON REFUSAL OF AID BETWEEN NATIONS by DANTE GABRIEL ROSSETTI TO A YOUNG LADY; WHO ... REPROACHED FOR TAKING LONG WALKS IN COUNTRY by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH LILIES: 28. NOW by GEORGE BARLOW (1847-1913) QUATORZAINS: 3. RIVULETS by THOMAS LOVELL BEDDOES FRAGMENT OF THE ELEGY ON THE DEATH OF ADONIS by BION THE FOE AT THE GATES by JOHN DICKSON BRUNS ON SEEING THE BEAUTIFUL SEAT OF LORD GALLOWAY by ROBERT BURNS |
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