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Life

Poems and fables about life, its ages, its joys and its sorrows. Verlaine, Apollinaire, Victor Hugo and Maurice Carême reflect on what passes and what remains. La Fontaine draws lessons from it, as in “The Hare and the Tortoise” and “Nothing in Excess”.

    Poems with the theme : Life

  • Banners of May by Arthur Rimbaud
  • Beauty of Women, Their Weakness, and These Pale Hands by Paul Verlaine
  • Benediction by Charles Baudelaire
  • Listen to the Sweet Song by Paul Verlaine
  • Poem Read at the Wedding of André Salmon by Guillaume Apollinaire
  • Reassuring Spectacle by Victor Hugo
  • Rhénane Night by Guillaume Apollinaire
  • Sign by Guillaume Apollinaire
  • The Traveler by Guillaume Apollinaire
  • To Little Jeanne. by Victor Hugo
  • To Mademoiselle Fanny de P. by Victor Hugo
  • Fables with the theme : Life

  • Nothing in Excess by Jean De La Fontaine
  • The Cock, the Cat, and the Little Mouse by Jean De La Fontaine
  • The Drunkard and His Wife by Jean De La Fontaine
  • The Hare and the Tortoise by Jean De La Fontaine
  • The Mouse Metamorphosed into a Maid by Jean De La Fontaine
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