Guillaume Apollinaire

The French poet Apollinaire was born Wilhelm Apollinaris de Kostrowitzky. Apollinaire was a leader in the restless period of technical innovation and experimentation in the arts during the early twentieth century.

Mirabeau Bridge, The

by Guillaume Apollinaire (1880–1918)

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Under the Mirabeau Bridge the Seine

Flows and our love

Must I be reminded again

How joy came always after pain

Night comes the hour is rung

The days go I remain

Hands within hands we stand face to face
    While underneath
  The bridge of our arms passes

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Guillaume Apollinaire born, 1880

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Poetry Trivia

Question:

What poet lived in the Greenwich Village townhouse which was destroyed when a bomb manufactured by the radical student organization The Weather Underground accidentally went off?

Answer

James Merrill. He recorded the event in a poem titled "18 West 11th Street," the address of the townhouse.

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