- After Three Years by Paul Verlaine
- Clarisse by François-René De Chateaubriand
- De Profundis Clamavi by Charles Baudelaire
- Don Juan in Hell by Charles Baudelaire
- Eternity by Arthur Rimbaud
- Eternity of Nature, Brevity of Man by Alphonse De Lamartine
- Evening Harmony by Charles Baudelaire
- I Give You These Verses by Charles Baudelaire
- I Have Not Forgotten, Near the Town by Charles Baudelaire
- I Want to Read Homer’s Iliad in Three Days by Pierre De Ronsard
- Immortality by Alphonse De Lamartine
- Mignonne, allons voir si la rose by Pierre De Ronsard
- My Mind Is All Weary by Pierre De Ronsard
- Sick Autumn by Guillaume Apollinaire
- The Buffet by Arthur Rimbaud
- The Clock by Charles Baudelaire
- The Enemy by Charles Baudelaire
- The Little Old Women by Charles Baudelaire
- The Retreat by Alphonse De Lamartine
- The Seven Old Men by Charles Baudelaire
- To Elvire by Alphonse De Lamartine
- To the Marquise by Pierre Corneille
- We Shall See by François-René De Chateaubriand
- When You Are Very Old, at Evening, by Candlelight by Pierre De Ronsard
Time
Poems about passing time, lost youth and old age. Ronsard invites his beloved to gather the rose (“Mignonne, allons voir si la rose”) and Corneille answers the young Marquise in his famous stanzas. With “The Clock” and “The Enemy”, Baudelaire turns time into an adversary.
