The Graveyard By The Sea Comments
This quiet roof, where dove-sails saunter by,
Between the pines, the tombs, throbs visibly.
Impartial noon patterns the sea in flame --
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Magnificent poem, this poem most certainly deserves a ten, so be it.....
This website is ridiculous. Rate Poems. Like poems can simply be rated on a scale of 1-10. I would understand if this was a website created by naive children. But this website is created for poetry, and ironically judges it so crudely. People voted this poem a 5/10. If such a rating system was even valid, I am sure that these people simply did not understand what they were rating.
I find it amazing that the two greatest French poets of the last 100 years are virtually ignored here. In fact St Jean Perse is not even on the poet's list. Has nobody but me ever read Anabase or Amers. And where on earth is Valery's La Jeune Parque. I think there should be a system where we can rate the idiots who give such stupidly low marks to Great poems such as Le cimitiere Marin. Guessing their IQs? What do you think?
To Mr Tom Billsborough, Please do correct the name of the author of Anabase and write Saint-John Perse (that was his pen-name; his family name was Saint-Leger Leger) . Thanks a lot. Yours sincerely. J.-F. Sené
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7/18/2025 9:42:53 PM # 1.0.0
Le vent se lève! ... il faut tenter de vivre! / The wind is rising! ... We must try to live! I hope this poem inspires us all to try, try again! The wind is harsh but it can carry us on its back if we let it.