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Symbolist

A group of late 19th-century French writers who favored dreams, visions, and the associative powers of the imagination in their poetry. Read More
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  • Glossary Terms
    A group of late 19th-century French writers who favored dreams, visions, and the associative powers of the imagination in their poetry.
  • Poem
    By Arthur Symons
    There's a flutter of grey through the trees:
       Ah, the exquisite curves of her dress as she passes
       Fleet with her feet on the path where the grass is!

    I see not her face, I but see
       The swift re-appearance, the...
  • Poem
    By Guillaume Apollinaire
    Anemone and columbine
    Where gloom has lain
    Opened in gardens
    Between love and disdain

    Made somber by the sun
    Our shadows meet
    Until the sun
    Is squandered by night

    Gods of living water
    Let down their hair
    And now you must follow
    A craving for shadows
  • Poem
    By Guillaume Apollinaire
    Under Mirabeau Bridge the river slips away
              And lovers
        Must I be reminded
    Joy came always after pain


             The night is a clock chiming
             The days go by not I


    We're face to face and hand in hand
             While under the bridges
        Of embrace expire
    Eternal...
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