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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
SONNET, by VAUQUELIN DE LA FRESNAYE Poet's Biography First Line: From the disgraceful sleep in which you lie Last Line: Had never dared to cross the german rhine. | |||
FROM the disgraceful sleep in which you lie For so long time already, France, awake! Breathe freely, proudly, and your faults forsake, Nor be your proper slave and enemy. Resume your freedom, cure your malady, Your honour of past times, O France, retake! Henceforth from all with giddy humours break, And from the crooked paths of folly fly. In the old annals of your kings you read How thousand times you did in war succeed O'er those who for your ruin would combine. Save for the wounds you deal to your own breast, Those ravening harpies, want and famine prest, Had never dared to cross the German Rhine. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...SONG by VAUQUELIN DE LA FRESNAYE SONNET by VAUQUELIN DE LA FRESNAYE THE WAY OF THE CONVENTICLE OF THE TREES by HAYDEN CARRUTH NIGHTFALL IN DORDRECHT by EUGENE FIELD A DIRGE FOR MCPHERSON; KILLED IN FRONT OF ATLANTA by HERMAN MELVILLE THE LORELEI by GUILLAUME APOLLINAIRE THE MYSTIC by PHILIP JAMES BAILEY TO DR. AIKIN by ANNA LETITIA BARBAULD |
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