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Le Cimetière marin
Le Cimetière marin is a 1920 poem by Paul Valéry, a meditation on death and the sea set in the marine cemetery above Sète, his home town.
Le Cornet à dés
Le Cornet à dés is a collection of about 300 prose poems by the French writer and painter Max Jacob, published at his own expense in 1917.
Le Dormeur du val
Le Dormeur du val ("The Sleeper in the Valley") is a famous 1870 sonnet by Arthur Rimbaud about a dead soldier lying in a sunlit valley.
Le Grand Testament
Le Grand Testament, or Le Testament, is a 2,023-verse narrative poem by François Villon dated 1461, a parody will whose burlesque bequests embed his lyric poems and mark his masterpiece.
Le Lac
"Le Lac" ("The Lake") is an elegiac poem by Alphonse de Lamartine, published in 1820 in his collection Méditations poétiques and addressed to the lake of Le Bourget.
Le Marteau sans maître
Le Marteau sans maître ("The Hammer without a Master") is a 1934 poetry collection by the French poet René Char, the best-known book of his early period.
Le occasioni
Le occasioni is the second poetry collection of the Italian poet Eugenio Montale, published in Turin in 1939 and dedicated to Irma Brandeis, the American Dante scholar he loved, appearing as Clizia.
Le Parnasse contemporain
Le Parnasse contemporain is a collective French poetry anthology published by Alphonse Lemerre in 1866, 1871, and 1876, which gave its name to the Parnassian school.
Le Parti pris des choses
Le Parti pris des choses, Francis Ponge's first major book, is a 1942 collection of prose poems on everyday objects like the oyster, bread, and soap.
Le Pèlerinage de vie humaine
Le Pèlerinage de vie humaine, "The Pilgrimage of Human Life," is a French allegorical dream-vision poem of 13,639 verses written by Guillaume de Deguileville in 1330–1331.
Le Pont Mirabeau
Le Pont Mirabeau is a poem by the French poet Guillaume Apollinaire, first published in 1912 and collected in Alcools in 1913, meditating on lost love and time.
Le Remède de Fortune
Le Remède de Fortune, also spelled Remede de Fortune, is a narrative poem with interpolated songs, a dit, written in French by Guillaume de Machaut around 1340.
Le Roman de la Rose de Guillaume de Lorris
Le Roman de la Rose de Guillaume de Lorris is the first part of the Old French allegorical dream-vision poem Roman de la Rose, written around 1230.
Le Roman de Renart
Le Roman de Renart is a cycle of Old French comic animal poems about the trickster fox Renart, written by mostly anonymous authors from about 1170 to 1250.
Le Roman de Thèbes
Le Roman de Thèbes is an anonymous Old French verse romance of about 1150 adapting Statius's Thebaid, telling the war of Oedipus's sons for Thebes.
Le Roman de Tristan
Le Roman de Tristan, also cited as Tristran, is a fragmentary Old French poem of about 4,485 verses by the Norman poet Béroul, retelling the love of Tristan and Iseut.
Le Roman de Troie
The Roman de Troie, meaning Romance of Troy, is an Old French poem of over 30,000 lines by Benoît de Sainte-Maure, composed around 1165 and retelling the Trojan War.
Le Roman inachevé
Le Roman inachevé is an autobiographical long poem by the French writer Louis Aragon, published by Gallimard in 1956 and marking his return to lyric poetry.
Le Spleen de Paris
Paris Spleen (Le Spleen de Paris, also published as Petits Poèmes en prose) is a 1869 collection of fifty prose poems by Charles Baudelaire, a founding text of literary modernism.
Le Voyage
"Le Voyage" is the final poem of Baudelaire's Les Fleurs du mal, the longest in the collection, added in the 1861 edition and dedicated to Maxime Du Camp.
Leaves of Grass
Leaves of Grass is Walt Whitman's lifelong poetry collection, self-published in Brooklyn in 1855 as twelve untitled poems and expanded to almost 400 poems across six lifetime editions, ending with the 1891-92 deathbed edition.
Leaving Jingci Temple at Dawn to See Off Lin Zifang
"Leaving Jingci Temple at Dawn to See Off Lin Zifang" (晓出净慈寺送林子方) is a 1187 quatrain by the Southern Song poet Yang Wanli, written to farewell his friend Lin Zifang.
Left March
Left March (Левый марш) is an agitational poem by Vladimir Mayakovsky, written in December 1918 for revolutionary sailors in Petrograd and built on the chanted refrain "Left! Left! Left!".
Les Antiquités de Rome
Les Antiquités de Rome is a 1558 sonnet sequence of 32 sonnets by the French Renaissance poet Joachim du Bellay, meditating on the grandeur and ruin of ancient Rome.
Les Chants de Maldoror
Les Chants de Maldoror is an 1869 prose-poem in six chants by Isidore Ducasse, writing as the Comte de Lautréamont, whose evil protagonist Maldoror rebels against God and humankind.
Les Châtiments
Les Châtiments is an 1853 collection of 98 satirical poems by Victor Hugo, written in exile on Jersey to denounce Louis-Napoléon Bonaparte's 1851 coup d'état and his regime.
Les Chimères
Les Chimères is a group of twelve sonnets by the French writer Gérard de Nerval, composed between 1841 and 1853 and first published in January 1854.
Les Complaintes
Les Complaintes is an 1885 collection of 51 poems by Jules Laforgue, his first published collection, which revived the old complainte song genre through irony and liberated verse.
Les Contemplations
Les Contemplations is an 1856 poetry collection by Victor Hugo, published during his exile in about eleven thousand verses and organized around the death of his daughter Léopoldine in 1843.
Les Destinées
Les Destinées is an 1864 posthumous collection of eleven philosophical poems by the French poet Alfred de Vigny, containing his best-known poems La Mort du loup and La Maison du berger.