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Born in 1896 / Died in 1966 / France / French

Poems by André Breton

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The Green Linnet

... While birds, and butterflies, and flowers, ...

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The Power of Armies is a Visible Thing

... Like the strong wind, or sleeping like the wind ...

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Nuns Fret Not at Their Convent’s Narrow Room

... Pleased if some Souls (for such there needs must be) ...

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She Was a Phantom of Delight

... Praise, blame, love, kisses, tears, and smiles ...

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October, 1803

... These times strike monied worldlings with dismay: ...

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The World Is Too Much With Us

... We have given our hearts away, a sordid boon! ...

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Ode: Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood

... Shout round me, let me hear thy shouts, thou happy Shepherd-boy ...

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It is a Beauteous Evening, Calm and Free

... Dear child! dear Girl! that walkest with me here, ...

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A Complaint

... —Such change, and at the very door ...

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Yarrow Revisited

... Well pleased that future Bards should chant ...

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Lines Composed a Few Miles above Tintern Abbey, On Revisiting the Banks of the Wye during a Tour. July 13, 1798

...  And now, with gleams of half-extinguished thought, ...

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She Dwelt among the Untrodden Ways

... She lived unknown, and few could know ...

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Most Sweet it is

... The Mind's internal heaven shall shed her dews ...

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Yarrow Visited. September, 1814

... One hour is theirs, nor more is mine— ...

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Laodamia

... And though his favourite seat be feeble woman's breast ...