The poems
The poets
- Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822)
- Paul Verlaine (1844-1896)
- Joseph von Eichendorff (1788-1854)
- Jacques Prévert (1900-1977)
- Langston Hughes (1902-1967)
- Dylan Thomas (1914-1953)
- Mélanie Waldor (1796-1871)
- Rainer Maria Rilke (1875-1926)
- Alphonse de Lamartine (1790-1869)
- Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882)
- Selma Meerbaum-Eisinger (1924-1942)
- William Henry Davies (1871-1940)
- Hélène Vacaresco (1866-1931)
- Friedrich Hebbel (1813-1863)
- Ernest de Ganay (1880-1963)
- Marceline Desbordes-Valmore (1786-1859)
Marceline Desbordes-Valmore was born June 20, 1786. Actress and singer, she would later appear in Douai, Rouen, Paris ’Opéra-Comique’, ’Théâtre de la Monnaie in Brussels, where she notably played Rosine in the Barber of Seville of Beaumarchais. She retired from the stage in 1823.
After losing her five-year old child in 1816, born from her first marriage, she would remarry in 1817 with the actor Prosper Lanchantin-Valmore, and thence published her first poetic work in 1819 Élégies et Romances, and then in 1825, Élégies et poésie nouvelles.
Despite a somewhat interrupted education, she is known for a compulsive spontaneity in her verses, delicate arrangements of musical sounds and rhythm.
