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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Ballade Of The Midnight Forest
by Andrew Lang
Still sing the mocking fairies, as of old,
Beneath the shade of thorn and holly-tree;
The west wind breathes upon them, pure and cold,
And wolves still dread Diana roaming free
In secret woodland with her company.
'Tis thought the peasants' hovels know her rite
When now the wolds are bathed in silver light,
And first the moonrise breaks the dusky grey,
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