The Bestiary: Or Orpheus-s Procession Poem Rhyme Scheme

Recent Interactions*

This poem was read 3 times,

This poem was added to the favorite list by 0 members,

This poem was voted by 0 members.

(* Interactions only in the last 7 days)

New Poems

Wonderful Women
by Umaru Kanneh Boima
Freedom To Scratch In Peace
by Olute Aete
Happy New Year
by Felix Menda
Human Beings
by Dana Graslie
Lust
by Wisdom Greatness
An Isolated Tree's Song
by Sayeed Abubakar
A Strange Boy
by Sayeed Abubakar
O Soil
by Sayeed Abubakar
No War, No War-monger
by Sayeed Abubakar
Night's Town
by Sayeed Abubakar

Popular Poets

1. Emily Dickinson(2414 poems)
2. Madison Julius Cawein(1231 poems)
3. Ella Wheeler Wilcox(1136 poems)
4. William Wordsworth(1016 poems)
5. Robert Burns(986 poems)
6. Edgar Albert Guest(945 poems)
7. Thomas Moore(849 poems)
8. Robert Service(831 poems)

Guillaume Apollinaire

The Bestiary: Or Orpheus-s Procession Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Write your comment about The Bestiary: Or Orpheus-s Procession poem by Guillaume Apollinaire

Recent Interactions*

New Poems

Popular Poets

Le Bestiaire ou Cort ge d Orph e	A
	-
Orpheus	B
	-
Admire the vital power	C
And nobility of line	D
It s the voice that the light made us understand here	E
That Hermes Trismegistus writes of in Pimander	E
	-
	-
The Tortoise	B
	-
From magic Thrace O delerium	F
My sure fingers sound the strings	G
The creatures pass to the sounds	H
Of my tortoise and the songs I sing	I
	-
	-
The Horse	J
	-
My harsh dreams knew the riding of you	K
My gold charioted fate will be your lovely car	E
That for reins will hold tight to frenzy	A
My verses the patterns of all poetry	A
	-
	-
The Tibetan Goat	L
	-
The fleece of this goat and even	M
That gold one which cost such pain	N
To Jason s not worth a sou towards	O
The tresses with which I m taken	P
	-
	-
The Serpent	Q
	-
You set yourself against beauty	A
And how many women have been	M
victims of your cruelty	A
Eve Eurydice Cleopatra	E
I know three or four more after	E
	-
	-
The Cat	R
	-
I wish there to be in my house	S
A woman possessing reason	P
A cat among books passing by	T
Friends for every season	P
Lacking whom I m barely alive	U
	-
	-
The Lion	P
	-
O lion miserable image	V
Of kings lamentably chosen	P
Now you re only born in a cage	W
In Hamburg among the Germans	X
	-
	-
The Hare	E
	-
Don t be fearful and lascivious	B
Like the hare and the amorous	B
But always let your brain weave	Y
The full form that conceives	B
	-
	-
The Rabbit	Z
	-
There s another cony I remember	E
That I d so like to take alive	U
Its haunt is there among the thyme	F
In the valleys of the Land of Tender	E
	-
	-
The Dromedary	A
	-
With his four dromedaries	B
Don Pedro of Alfaroubeira	A
Travels the world and admires her	A
He does what I would rather	A
If I d those four dromedaries	B
	-
	-
The Mouse	B
	-
Sweet days the mice of time	F
You gnaw my life moon by moon	A2
God I ve twenty eight years soon	A2
and badly spent ones I imagine	P
	-
	-
The Elephant	Q
	-
I carry treasure in my mouth	B2
As an elephant his ivory	A
At the price of flowing words	B
Purple death I buy my glory	A
	-
	-
Orpheus	B
	-
Look at this pestilential tribe	C2
Its thousand feet its hundred eyes	B
Beetles insects lice	B
And microbes more amazing	I
Than the world s seventh wonder	A
And the palace of Rosamunde	Q
	-
	-
The Caterpillar	A
	-
Work leads us to riches	B
Poor poets work on	D2
The caterpillar s endless sigh	T
Becomes the lovely butterfly	T
	-
The Fly	T
	-
The songs that our flies know	E2
Were taught to them in Norway	F2
By flies who are they say	F2
Divinities of snow	E2
	-
	-
The Flea	A
	-
Fleas friends lovers too	Q
How cruel are those who love us	B
All our blood pours out for them	F
The well beloved are wretched then	G2
	-
	-
The Grasshopper	A
	-
Here s the slender grasshopper	A
The food that fed Saint John	D2
May my verse be similar	A
A treat for the best of men	G2
	-
	-
Orpheus	B
	-
His heart was the bait the heavens were the pond	Q
For fisherman what fresh or seawater catch	H2
equals him either in form or savour	A
that lovely divine fish Jesus My Saviour	A
	-
	-
The Dolphin	P
	-
Dolphins playing in the sea	A
The wave is bitter gruel	I2
Does my joy sometimes erupt	Q
Yet life is still so cruel	J2
	-
	-
The Octopus	B
Hurling his ink at skies above	K2
Sucking the blood of what he loves	B
And finding it delicious	B
Is myself the monster vicious	B
	-
	-
The Jellyfish	L2
	-
Medusas miserable heads	B
With hairs of violet	Q
You enjoy the hurricane	N
And I enjoy the very same	F
	-
	-
The Lobster	A
	-
Uncertainty O my delights	B
You and I we go	E2
As lobsters travel onwards quite	Q
Backwards Backwards O	E2
	-
	-
The Carp	M2
	-
In your pools and in your ponds	B
Carp you indeed live long	N2
Is it that death forgets to free	A
You fishes of melancholy	A
	-
	-
Orpheus	B
	-
The female of the Halcyon	P
Love the seductive Sirens	B
All know the fatal songs	B
Dangerous and inhuman	P
Don t listen to those cursed birds	B
But Paradisial Angels words	B
	-
	-
The Sirens	B
	-
Do I know where your ennui s from Sirens	B
When you grieve so widely under the stars	B
Sea I am like you filled with broken voices	B
And my ships singing give a name to the years	B
	-
	-
The Dove	K2
	-
Dove both love and spirit	Q
Who engendered Jesus Christ	Q
Like you I love a Mary	A
And so with her I marry	A
	-
	-
The Peacock	O2
	-
In spreading out his fan this bird	Q
Whose plumage drags on earth I fear	A
Appears more lovely than before	A
But makes his derri re appear	A
	-
	-
The Owl	P2
	-
My poor heart s an owl	P2
One woos un woos re woos	B
Of blood of ardour he s the fowl	P2
I praise those who love me too	Q
	-
	-
Ibis	B
	-
Yes I ll pass fearful shadows	B
O certain death let it be so	E2
Latin mortal dreadful word	Q
Ibis Nile s native bird	Q
	-
	-
The Ox	B
	-
This cherubim sings the praises	B
Of Paradise where with Angels	B
We ll live once more dear friends	B
When the good God intends	B