Skeleton of Paris
...TO PRESERVE YOUR HEALTH
YOU MUST RESERVE YOUR DATE AND TIME
TO ENTER THE EMPIRE OF DEATH
“Arrête, c'est ici l'empire de la mort!"
Sign in Paris Catacombs
SKELETON OF PARIS
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Categories:
lavoisier, death, paris,
Form: Free verse
Alchemy
...these glass vessels that you see,
no longer appertain to me,
no longer feigning to make part
what was the mainstay of my art,
my skills no more appreciated,
as if I were some rusticated
old f...
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Categories:
lavoisier, age, farewell, irony, love,
Form: Quatrain
Antoine Lavoisier
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Antoine Lavoisier
A pioneer in chemistry in his day.
A royal tax collector he was made.
He lost his head with a guillotine’s blade.
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Categories:
lavoisier, death, history,
Form: Clerihew