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A precocious and voluminous writer, who delighted in playing with the technical difficulties of lyric forms. His devotion to form was his chief excellence and gave him a considerable influence on the group of _Parnassiens_. He was especially responsible for the revival of the fixed forms of the older French poetry. He took up and developed the dictum of Saint-Beuve that rhyme is "_l'unique harmonie du vers_" and his _Odes funambulesques_ sought even to make it a main means of comic effect. His work is deficient in substance.

Works : _Les Cariatides_, 1842; _les Stalactites_, 1846; _Odelettes_, 1856; _Odes funambulesques_, 1857; _les Exilés_, 1860; _Idylles prussiennes_, 1871; _les Princesses_, 1874; _Sonnailles et Clochettes_, 1890; _Dans la fournaise. Dernières poésies_, 1892.

For reference: Sainte-Beuve, _Causeries du lundi_, vol. xiv; J. Lemaître, _les Contemporains_, vol. i, 1886; A. Lang, _Essays in Little_, London, 1891.

234. LA CHANSON DE MA MIE. MA MIE, see note on 165, 25.

235. BALLADE DES PENDUS. From the comedy _Gringoire_ (1866). 20. FLORE, the Roman goddess of fruits and flowers. 26. _du roi Louis_ ; Louis XI. (1461-1487), whose measures to break down feudalism and establish the power of the monarchy are notorious.

HENRI DE BORNIER.

1825.

Primarily a dramatic poet, he obtained one of the striking successes of the latter half of the century by his drama _la Fille de Roland_ (1875) which, evoking memories of recent disaster and the dearest hopes of France, deeply touched the patriotic sentiment of his country. His lyric poems make but one volume.

Works: _Les Premières Feuilles, 1845_; the volume _Poésiescomplètes, 1881_, contains, besides the poems of the first volume, a number that appeared at intervals, several of which received prizes from the Academy, as _l'Isthme de Suez_, 1861, and _la France dans l'extrême Orient_, 1863; _Poésies complètes,_ new edition, 1894.

ANDRE THEURIET.

1833.

Though now best known as a novelist, he began as a poet, and it is not certain that he will not finally be best remembered for his verse. His eyes and his sympathies are for the woods and fields and for the simple toilers whose lives lie close to them. He has instilled into his poems something of the odors of the forest and of the soil.

Works: _Le Chemin des bois_, 1867 ; _les Paysans de l'Argonne, 1792._ 1871; _le Bleu et le Noir_, 1873; _le Livre de la Payse_, 1882.

For reference: E. Besson, _André Theuriet, sa vie et ses oeuvres_, 1890.

237. BRUNETTE. From _le Bleu et le Noir._

238. LES PAYSANS. From _le Livre de la Payse._

GEORGES LAFENESTRE.

1837.

Though he is perhaps more widely known as a critic of art than as a poet, his poems have a certain distinction by reason of their deep and serious thought and their clear and noble expression.

Works: _Les Espérances_, 1864; _Idylles et Chansons_, 1874. The poems here given are from _Idylles et Chansons_.

240. 21. MICHEL-ANGE, Michaelangelo.

FÉLIX FRANK.

1837.

He is chiefly known to the world of scholars by his studies in literary history and his editions of writers of the Renaissance.

Works : _Chants de colère_, 1871; _le Poème de la Jeunesse_, 1876; _la Chanson d'amour_, 1885.

243. C'ÉTAIT UN VIEUX LOGIS. From _le Poème de la Jeunesse_.

ARMAND SILVESTRE.

1838.

A prolific writer of both prose and verse. He has a rich gift of style, but he appeals to his reader more often by the sensuous charm of his lines than by their originality or depth.

Works: _Rimes neuves et vieilles_, 1866; _Renaissances_, 1870; _la Gloire du souvenir_, 1872; these three volumes are collected in _Premières poésies_, 1875; _la Chanson des heures_,1878; _les Ailes d'or_, 1880; _le Pays des roses_, 1882; _le Chemin des étoiles_, 1885: _Roses d'octobre_, 1889; _l'Or des couchants_, 1892; _les Aurores lointaines_, 1895.

For reference: J. Lemaître, _les Contemporains_, vol. ii, 1887.

245. LE PÈLERINAGE. From _les Ailes d'or_.

ALBERT GLATIGNY.

1839-1873.

Led a wandering and adventurous life. He was at different times actor in a travelling company, prompter, and writer. In his poems he shows a native gift of expression that made him a favorite of the _Parnassiens_.

Works: _Les Vignes folles_, 1857; _les flèches d'or_, 1864; _Gilles et Pasquins_, 1872.

For reference: J. Lazare, _A. Glatigny, sa vie, son oeuvre_; Catulle Mendès, _Légende du Parnasse contemporain_, 1884.

SULLY PRUDHOMME.

1839.

René-François-Armand Prudhomme, known as Sully Prudhomme, combines the artistic punctiliousness of a _Parnassien_ with sincere emotion and a deeply philosophic mind. The intellectual quality of his work is conspicuous, but hardly less so the grace and finish of its form. It bears deep traces of the influence of the scientific movement of our time and of the transformation it has wrought in our ideas of man and nature and their relations. The personal emotion from which his lyrics spring appears always intellectually illumined, with its background of scientific corollaries and logical consequences. It is not abandoned to itself, to wreak itself on expression, but is checked by the challenge of doubt or scientific curiosity or moral scruple. His verse thus unites in rare degree the qualities of lyrical impulse and philosophical reflection.

Works: _Stances et Poèmes_, 1865; _les Épreuves_, 1866; _les Solitudes_, 1869; _les Destins_, 1872; _les Vaines Tendresses_, 1875; _la Justice_, 1878; _le Prisme_, 1886; _le Bonheur_, 1888; these have appeared in a new edition as _Oeuvres_, 5 vols., 1883-1888.

For reference: J. Lemaître, _les Contemporains_, vol. i, 1886; E. Caro, _Poètes et romanciers_, 1888; G. Paris, _Penseurs et poètes_, 1896; F. Brunetière, _Évolution de la poésie lyrique_, vol. ii, 1894.

The first eleven poems are from _Stances et Poèmes_. LES DANAÏDES, UN SONGE and LE RENDEZ VOUS are from _les Épreuves_; LA VOIE LACTÉE is from _les Solitudes_; REPENTIR, from _Impressions de la Guerre_ (1872;) CE QUI DURE, LES INFIDÈLES, LES AMOURS TERRESTRES and L'ALPHABET, from _les Vaines Tendresses_; and the last two sonnets, from _la Justice_.

255. LE LEVER DU SOLEIL. 5. _Hellade_, Hellas, country inhabited by the Hellenes, or Greeks, a name at first given to a district of Thessaly, later to all Greece.

257. LES DANAÏDES. The Danaïdes were the fifty daughters of Danaus, twin-brother of Aegyptus, whose fifty sons they married and then murdered. As a punishment they were condemned to pour water forever into a sieve. 2. _Théano_, _Callidie_, _Amymone_, _Agavé_ are names of four of the daughters.

ALPHONSE DAUDET.

1840-1897.

Though of world-wide fame as a brilliant novelist, he introduced himself to the public by a volume of verse, _les Amoureuses_, which contains many poems delicate in sentiment and exquisite in style.

HENRI CAZALIS (JEAN LAHOR).

1840.

The poems of Henri Cazalis, who has preferred to give his later works to the public under the nom de plume Jean Lahor, have the grave pessimism of Leconte de Lisle, but with more of buddhistic resignation. They are often sustained by a high moral fortitude, and though they are clothed in a less rich and brilliant garment than the poems of Leconte de Lisle, they have a charm of their own, "_inquiétant et pénétrant_," says Paul Bourget, "_comme celui des tableaux de Burne Jones et de la musique tzigane, des romans de Tolstoi et des_ lieder _de Heine_."

Works: _Vita tristis_, 1865 (under the pseudonym Jean Caselli;) _Mélancholia_, 1866; _le Livre du néant_, 1872; _l'Illusion_, 1875; the preceding were collected in one volume and published under the name Jean Lahor and with the title _l'Illusion_, 1888; under the same name, _le Cantique des cantiques_, a translation of the Song of Solomon, 1885; _les Quatrains d'Al-Ghazali_, 1896.

For reference; J. Lemaître, _les Contemporains_, vol. iv.

CHARLES FRÉMINE.

1841.

He holds an honorable place among the _poetae minores_ by poems distinguished for the sincerity and simple truth of their record of nature and humble experience.

Works: _Floréal_, 1870; _Vieux Airs et Jeunes Chansons_. 1884; _Bouquet d'automne_, 1890.

FRANÇOIS COPPÉE.

1842.

He is especially the poet of the _vie des humbles_. His talent is not pre-eminently lyric, and he has tended to escape

from the lyric domain in different directions, into the narrative poem, the drama, and the novel, in each of which he has achieved success. He is probably the most popular living French poet.

Works: _Le Reliquaire_, 1866; _Intimités_, 1868; _Poèmes modernes_, 1869; _les Humbles_, 1872; _Promenades et intérieurs_, 1872; _le Cahier rouge_, 1874; _Olivier_, 1875; _l'Exilée_, 1876; _les Mois_, 1877; _Contes en vers et poésies diverses_, 1881 and 1887;

_Poèmes et récits_, 1886; _Arrière-saison_, 1887; _les Paroles sincères_, 1890; _Oeuvres_, 5 vols., 1885-91.

For reference: M. de Lescure, François Coppée; _L'Homme, la Vie, et l'Oeuvre_ (1842-1889), 1889; J. Lemaître, _les Contemporains_, vol. i, 1886; F. Brunetière. _Évolution de la poésie lyrique_, vol. ii, 1894; Alcée Fortier, _Sept Grands Auteurs du XIXe Siècle_, Boston, 1889.

271. JUIN. From _les Mois_.

272. L'HOROSCOPE. From _le Reliquaire_.

273. L'ATTENTE. From _Poèmes modernes_.

275. CHANSON D'EXIL, "QUAND VOUS ME MONTREZ UNE ROSE," LIED and ÉTOILES FILANTES are from _l'Exilée_.

277. A UN ÉLÉGIAQUE. From _Contes en vers et poésies diverses_. The story of the Spartan boy and the fox may be found in Plutarch's Lycurgus, 18. The idea should be compared with the artistic doctrine of the _impassibles_.

JOSÉ-MARIA DE HEREDIA.

l842.

He was born in Cuba, but was educated and has resided in France. He attracted notice among the _Parnassiens_ by the degree of perfection with which he rendered in words the element of plastic beauty and the rare finish and precision of his style. He has used almost exclusively the form of the sonnet, to which he has given a new power and amplitude.

Works: _Les Trophies_, 1893 (many of the sonnets composing this volume had appeared in the _Revue des Deux Mondes_ and elsewhwere and had long been admired).

For reference: J. Lemaitre, _les Contemorains_, vol. ii, 1887; F. Brunetière, _Évolution de la poésie lyrique_, vol. ii, 1894; M. de Vogüé, _Devant le siècle_, 1896; Edmund Gosse, _Critical Kit-Kats_, New York, 1896.

278. ANTOINE ET CLÉOPÂTRE. LE CYDNUS. This is the name of the river on which Tarsus is situated. 18. LAGIDE; the line of the Ptolemies, to which Cleopatra belonged, was descended from Lagus; the first Ptolemy was commonly called the son of Lagus.

279. 18. BUBASTE ET SAÏS; Bubastis and Saïs were ancient cities of importance in the Delta of the Nile.

280. 6. LES CONQUÉRANTS. PALOS, the famous Spanish port from which Columbus sailed. MOGUER, a small town a little above Palos. 9. CIPANGO, the name given by Marco Polo in the account of his travels to an island or islands east of Asia, supposed to be Japan.

PAUL VERLAINE.

1844-1896.

The most striking and original figure among the poets of the latter half of the century. In the irregularity of his life he might count as a modern Rutebeuf or Villon. He certainly possessed a rich poetic endowment, which only occasionally produced what it seemed capable of. He began under the influence of the _Parnassiens_, but his most characteristic work is as far removed as possible from the plastic objectivity of that school. He pursues the expression of the most elusive sensations, and is so little concerned about clear ideas and precise forms and outlines that even grammatical coherence often fails, and the mind gropes in a mist of unintelligibility--in which direction, however, his disciples have gone very far beyond him. But in the rendering of pure feeling and sensation, in direct emotional appeal of tone and accent, he discovered powerful secrets for his verse that others have not known. He seems now to have been one of the original poetic forces of the century.

Works: _Poèmes saturniens_, 1866; _Fêtes galantes_, 1869; _la Bonne Chanson_, 1870; _Romances sans paroles_, 1874; _Sagesse_, 1881; _Jadis et naguère_, 1885; _Amour_, 1888; _Parallèlement_, 1889; _Bonheur_, 1891; _Chansons pour elle_, 1891; _Dans les limbes_, 1894; _Chair_, 1896; _Invectives_, 1896; selections from the volumes to and including _Bonheur_ are given in _Choix de poésies_, 1891.

For reference: Ch. Morice, _Paul Verlaine, l'homme et l'oeuvre_; J. Lemaître, in _Revue Bleue_, Jan. 7, 1888; F. Brunetière, _Évolution de la poésie Iyrique_, vol. ii, 1894; A. Cohn, in _The Bookman_, vol. i, with portraits.

28O. COLLOQUE SENTIMENTAL. From _Fêtes galantes_.

288. 1. The quotation is from Dante's _Purgatorio_, canto iii, 79-84. ART POÉTIQUE. From _Jadis et naguère_.

289. UN VEUF PARLE and PARABOLES are from _Amour_.

291. PARABOLES. 1. LE POISSON; the use of the fish in Christian art as a symbol of Christ is well known. Its origin is commonly said to be in the initials of the Greek [Greek: Iaesus Christos Theou Tios Sotaer] which make the word _Ichthus_ (fish). 2. L'ÂNON; cf. St. Mark xi. 3. LES PORCS, etc.; cf. St. Mark v, 13.

ÉMILE BERGERAT.

1845.

Widely known under the name of Caliban as the alert and witty _chroniqueur_ of the Figaro and as the facile rhymester of its _lyre comique_, has written a few serious poems of direct and vigorous expression, especially under the inspiration of the memory of the war of 1870-71.

Works: _Poèmes de la guerre_, 1871; _la Lyre comique_, 1889.

291. PAROLES DORÉES. 17. CYLINDRE, the cylinder or toothed roller of the hand-organ.

FRANÇOIS FABIÉ.

1846.

The son of poor peasants, he has perpetuated the scenes and the simple life of his boyhood and the poverty and rude toil of his country home in verse of deep, pure, and tender feeling.

Works: _La Poésie des Bêtes_, 1886; _le Clocher_, 1887; _la Bonne terre_, 1889; _Voix rustiques_, 1892; these are collected in the edition of _Poésies_, 2 vols., 1891-94. 293. LES GENÊTS. From _le Clocher_.

PAUL DÉROULÈDE.

1846.

Politician, as well as man of letters, he is known especially for his war lyrics, which have achieved a wide popularity. They are recommended more by the vigor of their patriotic sentiment than by their technical qualities.

Works: _Chants du Soldat_, 1872; _Nouveaux Chants du Soldat_, 1875; Marches et Sonneries, 1881; _Refrains militaires_, 1888; _Chants du Paysan_, 1894.

For reference: G. Larroumet, _Études de littérature et d'art_ vol. iii.

296. LE BON GÎTE. From _Nouveaux Chants du Soldat_.

GEORGES BOUTELLEAU.

1846.

He has won the attention of the smaller public of men of letters by the finish and delicacy of the short poems, which justify the titles of the volumes in which they have been collected by suggesting the art of the miniature painter and the worker in stained glass.

Works: _Poèmes en miniature_, 1881; _le Vitrail_, 1887; _les

Cimes_, 1893.

297. LE COLIBRI. From _Poèmes en miniature_.

298. LES DEUX OMBRES. From _le Vitrail_.

LOUIS TIERCELIN.

1849.

His work is distinguished by sentiment that is usually pure and sweet, sometimes deep and tender.

Works: _Les Asphodèles_, 1873; _l'Oasis_, 1880; _les Anniversaires_, 1887; _les Cloches_, 1891; _Sur la Harpe_, 1897.

298. LE PETIT ENFANT. From _l'Oasis_. For the form of the triolet see the remarks on versification.

GUY DE MAUPASSANT.

1850-1893.

This famous master of the short story began his literary career, like Daudet, Theuriet, and Bourget, with a volume of verse. _Des Vers_, 1880.

PAUL BOURGET.

1852.

Like Maupassant, he early forsook poetry for the novel, and for literary criticism. His verse, like his prose, is the work of a psychologist, who observes and analyzes his own experiences. He is never so far possessed by his emotion as to cease to inspect it curiously. In the restlessness of his spirit, the unsettled currents of his moral atmosphere, his doubts and longings, he represents a large fraction of his generation.

Works: _La Vie inquiète_, 1874; _Edel_, 1878; _les Aveux_, 1882; collected in two volumes with the title _Poésies_, 1885-87.

For reference: J. Lemaître, _les Contemporains_, vol. ii, 1887; A. N. van Daell, _Extraits choisis des oeuvres de Paul Bourget_, Boston, 1894 (introduction and _lettre autobiographique_).

302. PRAETERITA is from _la Vie inquiète_; the other poems here given are from _les Aveux_. 13, 14; the second of November, _jour des Trépasses_, is in the church calendar the day of the special commemoration of the dead.

ABEL HERMANT.

1862.

Another who seems to have been won from poetry to the novel, in which field he has achieved some striking successes. His one volume of verse is _les Mépris_, 1883. See G. Pellissier, _Nouveaux essais de littérature contemporaine_, 1895.

305. L'ÉTOILE. 17. LE CHALDÉEN; see St. Matthew ii, i-ii.

INDEX BY AUTHORS AND TITLES.

ACKERMANN, MADAME LOUISE (1813-1890). L'Homme.

AGOULT, SOPHIE DE FLAVIGNY, COMTESSE D' (1806-1876). L'Adieu.

ARNAULT, ANTOINE-VINCENT (1766-1834). La Feuille.

ARVERS, FÉLIX (1806-1851). Un Secret.

AUBIGNÉ, THÉODORE-AGRIPPA D' (1550-1630). L'Hyver.

BANVILLE, THÉODORE DE (1823-1891). La Chanson de ma mie. A Adolphe Gaïffe. Ballade des pendus.

BARBIER, HENRI-AUGUSTE (1805-1882). L'Idole.

BAUDELAIRE, PIERRE-CHARLES (1821-1867). Le Guignol. La Vie antérieure. La Beauté. La Cloche fêlée. Spleen. Le Goût du néant. La Rançon. Le Coucher du soleil romantique. Hymne. La Mort des pauvres. L'Homme et la mer.

BÉRANGER, PIERRE-JEAN DE (1780-1857). Le Roi d'Yvetot. Le Vilain. Mon Habit. Les Étoiles qui filent. Les Souvenirs du peuple. Les Fous.

BERGERAT, AUGUSTE-ÉMILE (1845- ). Paroles dorées.

BERTAUT, JEAN (1552-1611). Chanson. "Les Cieux inexorables".

BORNIER, VICOMPTE HENRI DE (1825- ). Résignons-nous.

BOURGET, PAUL (1852- ). Praeterita. Romance. "Pourquoi cet amour insensé." Départ. Nuit d'été. Épilogue.

BOUTELLEAU, GEORGES (1846- ). Le Colibri. Les Deux ombres.

BRIZEUX, AUGUSTE (1805-1858). Le Livre blanc.

CAZALIS, HENRI (1840- ). La Bête. Réminiscences.

CHARLES D'ORLÉANS (1391-1465). Ballade. "Nouvelles ont couru en France". Rondel. "Laissez-moy penser à mon aise". Rondel. "Le temps a laissié son manteau". Rondel. "Les fourriers d'Esté sont venus". Rondel. "Dieu! qu'il la fait bon regarder".

CHATEAUBRIAND FRANÇOIS-RENÉ de (1768-1848). Le Montagnard exilé.

CHÉNIER, MARIE-ANDRÉ DE (1762-1794). La Jeune captive. Iambes.

CHÉNIER, MARIE-JOSEPH DE (1764-1811). Le Chant du départ.

COPPÉE, FRANÇOIS (1842- ). Juin. L'Horoscope. L'Attente. Chanson d'exil. Romance. "Quand vous me montrez une rosé". Lied. Étoiles filantes. A un Élégiaque.

DAUDET, ALPHONSE (1840-1897). Aux Petits enfants. L'Oiseau bleu.

DÉROULÈDE, PAUL (1846- ). Le Bon gîte.

DÉSAUGIERS, MARIE-ANTOINE-MADELEINE (1772-1827). Moralité.

DESBORDES-VALMORE, MARCELINE (1786-1859). S'il avait su. Les Rosés de Saadi. Le Premier amour.

DU BELLAY, JOACHIM (1525-1560). L'Idéal. L'Amour du clocher. D'un Vanneur de bled aux vents.

DUPONT, PIERRE (1821-1870). La Véronique. Les Boeufs. Le Chant des ouvriers. Le Repos du soir.

FABIÉ, FRANÇOIS-JOSEPH (1846- ). Les Genêts.

FRANK, FÉLIX (1837- ). "C'était un vieux logis ".

FRÉMINE, CHARLES (1841- ). Retour.

GAUTIER, THÉOPHILE (1811-1872). Voyage. Tombée du jour. Noël. Fumée. Choc de cavaliers. Les Colombes. Lamento.

Tristesse. La Caravane. Plaintive tourterelle.

Premier sourire du printemps. L'Aveugle. La Source. Le Merle. L'Art.

GÉRARD DE NERVAL (1808-1855). Fantaisie. Vers dorés.

GILBERT, NICOLAS-JOSEPH-LAURENT (1751-1780). Adieux à la vie.

GLATIGNY, ALBERT (1839-1873). Ballade des Enfants sans souci.

HEREDIA, JOSÉ-MARIA DE (1842- ). Antoine et Cléopâtre. Les Conquérants.

HERMANT, ABEL (1862- ). L'Étoile.

HUGO, VICTOR-MARIE (1802-1885). Les Djinns. Attente. Extase. "Lorsque l'enfant paraît". "Dans l'alcôve sombre". Nouvelle chanson sur un vieil air. Autre chanson. "Puisqu'ici-bas toute âme". Oceano nox. Nuits de juin. "La Tombe dit à la rose". Tristesse d'Olympio. "A quoi bon entendre". Chanson. "Si vous n'avez rien à me dire". "Quand nous habitions tous ensemble". "O souvenirs! printemps! aurore!". "Demain, dès l'aube". Veni, vidi, vixi. Le Chant de ceux qui s'en vont sur mer. Luna. Le Chasseur noir. Lux. Ultima verba. Chanson. "Proscrit, regarde les roses". Exil. Saison des semailles. Un Hymne harmonieux. Promenades dans les rochers.

LAFENESTRE, GEORGES (1837- ). L'Ébauche. Le Plongeur.

LAMARTINE, ALPHONSE MARIE-LOUIS DE (1790-1869). Le Lac. L'Automne. Le Soir. Le Vallon. L'Isolement. Le Crucifix. Adieu à Graziella. Les Préludes. Hymne de l'enfant à son réveil. Le Premier regret. Stances. Les Révolutions.

LAPRADE, PIERRE-MARIN-VICTOR RICHARD DE (1812-1883). A un grand Arbre. Béatrix. Le Droit d'aînesse.

LECONTE DE LISLE, CHARLES-MARIE-RENÉ (1818-1894). Les Montreurs. Midi. Nox. L'Ecclésiaste. La Verandah. Les Elfes. Les Éléphants. La Chute des Étoiles. Mille ans après. Le Soir d'une bataille. In Excelsis. Requies. Dans le ciel clair. La Lampe du ciel. "Si l'Aurore". Le Manchy. "Le frais matin dorait". Tre fila d'oro.

LEMOYNE, CAMILLE-ANDRÉ (1822- ). Chanson marine. Un Fleuve à la mer.

MALHERBE, FRANÇOIS DE (1555-1628). Consolation à Monsieur du Périer. Chanson. "Ils s'en vont, ces rois de ma vie". Paraphrase du Psaume CXLV.

MAROT, CLÉMENT (1496-1544). Rondeau. "Au bon vieulx temps".

MAUPASSANT, HENRI-RENÉ-ALBERT-GUY DE (1850-1893). Découverte. L'Oiseleur.

MILLEVOYE, CHARLES-HUBERT (1782-1816). La Chute des feuilles.

MOREAU, HÉGÉSIPPE (1810-1838). La Fermière.

MUSSET, LOUIS-CHARLES-ALFRED DE (1810-1857). Au Lecteur. Stances. La Nuit de mai. La Nuit de décembre. Stances à la Malibran. Chanson de Barberine. Chanson de Fortunio. Tristesse. Rappelle-toi. Souvenir. Sur une Morte. A M. Victor Hugo. Adieu, Suzon.

NODIER, CHARLES-EMMANUEL (1780-1844). La Jeune fille. Le Buisson.

PARNY, ÉVARISTE-DÉSIRÉ DESFORGES DE (1753-1814). Sur la Mort d'une jeune Fille.

RACINE, JEAN (1639-1699). Choeur d'Esther.

RÉGNIER, MATHURIN (1573-1613). Ode. "Jamais ne pourray-je bannir."

RONSARD, PIERRE DE (1524-1581). A Cassandre. Chanson. "Pour boire dessus l'herbe tendre." Sonnet. A Hélène. Élégie. "Quand je suis vingt ou trente mois." Dieu vous garde. A un Aubespin. Élégie contre les bûcherons de la forêt de Gastine.

ROUGET DE L'ISLE, CLAUDE-JOSEPH (1760-1836). La Marseillaise.

ROUSSEAU, JEAN-BAPTISTE (1670-1741). Ode à la Fortune.

SILVESTRE, PAUL-ARMAND (1837- ). Le Pèlerinage.

SULLY-PRUDHOMME, RENÉ-FRANÇOIS-ARMAND (1839- ). Les Chaînes. Le Vase brisé. A l'Hirondelle. Ici-bas. Intus. Les Yeux. L'Idéal. Séparation. Qui peut dire. Le Lever du soleil. A un Désespéré. Les Danaïdes. Un Songe. Le Rendez-vous. La Voie lactée Repentir. Ce qui dure. Les Infidèles. Les Amours terrestres. L'Alphabet. "Nous prospérons". Le Complice.

THEURIET, ANDRÉ (1833- ). Brunette. Les Paysans.

TIERCELIN, LOUIS (1849- ). Le Petit enfant.

VERLAINE, PAUL (1844-1896). Colloque sentimental. "Puisque l'aube grandit." "La lune blanche." "Il pleure dans mon coeur." "Il faut, voyez-vous." "Dans l'interminable." "Écoutez la chanson bien douce." "Un grand sommeil noir." "Le ciel est, par-dessus le toit." "Je ne sais pourquoi." "Vous voilà, vous voilà, pauvres bonnes pensées." Art poétique. Un Veuf parle. Paraboles.

VIGNY, ALFRED-VICTOR, COMTE DE (1797-1863). Le Cor. La Bouteille à la mer.

VILLON, FRANÇOIS (1431-14??). Ballade des Dames du temps jadis. Lay ou plustost Rondeau. "Je connais tout fors que moi-même."

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