Poetry Books by Andre Marie De Chenier
Poesies de Andre Chenier
Authors: Andre Chenier
Publisher: Wildside Press
Published Date: 2011-09
Categories: Fiction
Andre Marie Chenier (1762-1794) was a French poet, associated with the events of the French Revolution, considered one of the precursors of the Romantic movement. His was guillotined for alleged "crimes against the state," just three days before the end of the Reign of Terror. This volume is in the original French.
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Poem of the day
Her Name Liberty
by Wilfrid Scawen Blunt
I thought to do a deed of chivalry,
An act of worth, which haply in her sight
Who was my mistress should recorded be
And of the nations. And, when thus the fight
Faltered and men once bold with faces white
Turned this and that way in excuse to flee,
I only stood, and by the foeman's might
Was overborne and mangled cruelly.
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