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Le Pont Mirabeau (The Mirabeau Bridge)

Guillaume Apollinaire

Form
Form Poem
Year
Year 1912
Originally in
Originally in French
Pages
Pages 1

A poet stands on a Paris bridge watching the river flow beneath it exactly the way a love affair has flowed out of his life, and repeats, as the nights come and the hours sound, that he alone stays while the days pass on.

Under the Mirabeau Bridge flows the Seine, and our loves.
Le Pont Mirabeau (The Mirabeau Bridge), Guillaume Apollinaire

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