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Famous Lune Poems by Famous Poets

These are examples of famous Lune poems written by some of the greatest and most-well-known modern and classical poets. PoetrySoup is a great educational poetry resource of famous lune poems. These examples illustrate what a famous lune poem looks like and its form, scheme, or style (where appropriate).

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...La lune s'attristait. Des s?raphins en pleurs
R?vant, l'archet aux doigts, dans le calme des fleurs
Vaporeuses, tiraient de mourantes violes
De blancs sanglots glissant sur l'azur des corolles.
—C'?tait le jour b?ni de ton premier baiser.
Ma songerie aimant ? me martyriser
s'enivrait savamment du parfum de tristesse
Que m?me sans regret et sans d?boire laisse
L...Read more of this...
by Mallarme, Stephane



...For Brenda Williams



La lune diminue; divin septembre.

Divine September the moon wanes.

 Pierre Jean Jouve



Themes for poems and the detritus of dreams coalesce:

This is one September I shall not forget.



The grammar-school caretaker always had the boards re-blacked

And the floors waxed, but I never shone.

The stripes of the red and black blazer

Were prison-grey. You coul...Read more of this...
by Tebb, Barry
...To outer senses there is peace,
A dreamy peace on either hand
Deep silence in the shadowy land,
Deep silence where the shadows cease.

Save for a cry that echoes shrill
From some lone bird disconsolate;
A corncrake calling to its mate;
The answer from the misty hill.

And suddenly the moon withdraws
Her sickle from the lightening skies,
And to her sombre c...Read more of this...
by Wilde, Oscar
...ILS ont vu les Pays-Bas, ils rentrent à Terre Haute;
Mais une nuit d’été, les voici à Ravenne,
A l’aise entre deux draps, chez deux centaines de punaises;
La sueur aestivale, et une forte odeur de chienne.
Ils restent sur le dos écartant les genoux
De quatre jambes molles tout gonflées de morsures.
On relève le drap pour mieux égratigner.
Moins d’une lieue...Read more of this...
by Eliot, T S (Thomas Stearns)
...
 ("La lune était sereine.") 
 
 {X., September, 1828.} 


 Bright shone the merry moonbeams dancing o'er the wave; 
 At the cool casement, to the evening breeze flung wide, 
 Leans the Sultana, and delights to watch the tide, 
 With surge of silvery sheen, yon sleeping islets lave. 
 
 From her hand, as it falls, vibrates the light guitar. 
 She lis...Read more of this...
by Hugo, Victor



...I held him.

Half-past three,
The lamp sputtered,
The lamp muttered in the dark.
The lamp hummed:
“Regard the moon,
La lune ne garde aucune rancune,
She winks a feeble eye,
She smiles into corners.
She smooths the hair of the grass.
The moon has lost her memory.
A washed-out smallpox cracks her face,
Her hand twists a paper rose,
That smells of dust and eau de Cologne,
She is alone
With all the old nocturnal smells
That cross and cross across her brain.”
The reminiscence com...Read more of this...
by Eliot, T S (Thomas Stearns)
...verre est plein d'un vin trembleur comme une flamme
Ecoutez la chanson lente d'un batelier
Qui raconte avoir vu sous la lune sept femmes
Tordre leurs cheveux verts et longs jusqu'à leurs pieds

Debout chantez plus haut en dansant une ronde
Que je n'entende plus le chant du batelier
Et mettez près de moi toutes les filles blondes
Au regard immobile aux nattes repliées

Le Rhin le Rhin est ivre où les vignes se mirent
Tout l'or des nuits tombe en tremblant s'y refléter
La voix ...Read more of this...
by Apollinaire, Guillaume
...f the windowed sky. 
But to the end, unjudging, he'll endure 
Horror and pain, not uncontent to die 

That Lancaster on Lune may stand secure. 
He faced me, reeling in his weariness, 
Shouldering his load of planks, so hard to bear. 
I say that He was Christ, who wrought to bless 
All groping things with freedom bright as air, 
And with His mercy washed and made them fair. 
Then the flame sank, and all grew black as pitch, 
While we began to struggle along the ditch; 
And som...Read more of this...
by Sassoon, Siegfried

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