Joseph Alexandre Pierre de Ségur poet from France was born on April 14, 1756, had 49 years and died on July 27, 1805. Poems were written mainly in French language. Dominant movement is political.
Poem of the day
The Voice
I was the height of a folio, my bed just
backed on the bookcases sombre Babel,
everything, Latin ashes, Greek dust
jumbled together: novel, science, fable.
backed on the bookcases sombre Babel,
everything, Latin ashes, Greek dust
jumbled together: novel, science, fable.
Whoever sets himself to see things as they are will find himself one of a very small circle but it is only by this small circle resolutely doing its own work that adequate ideas will ever get current at all.
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- Age
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- Good
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