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José-Maria de Heredia

1842–1905

José-Maria de Heredia (1842–1905) was born in Cuba of Spanish-descended family and educated in France, where he settled and became one of the leading Parnassian poets. He published his poems slowly, in periodicals, and was elected to the Académie française in 1894.

His single book, Les Trophées (1893), gathers some hundred and eighteen sonnets on Greek and Roman antiquity, the Middle Ages and Renaissance, the conquistadors, the Orient and the sea. These versions are by the San Francisco jurist Edward Robeson Taylor, from the fifth edition of 1913.

Poems (118)

  1. Oblivion
  2. Nemea
  3. Stymphalus
  4. Nessus
  5. The Centauress
  6. Centaurs and Lapithæ
  7. Flight of the Centaurs
  8. The Birth of Aphrodite
  9. Jason and Medea
  10. The Thermodon
  11. Artemis
  12. The Chase
  13. Nymphæa
  14. Pan
  15. The Bath of the Nymphs
  16. The Vase
  17. Ariadne
  18. Bacchanal
  19. The Awakening of a God
  20. The Magician
  21. The Sphinx
  22. Marsyas
  23. Andromeda Given to the Monster
  24. Perseus and Andromeda
  25. The Ravishment of Andromeda
  26. The Goatherd
  27. The Shepherds
  28. Votive Epigram
  29. Funerary Epigram
  30. The Shipwrecked One
  31. The Prayer of the Dead
  32. The Slave
  33. The Husbandman
  34. To Hermes Criophorus
  35. The Youthful Dead
  36. Regilla
  37. The Runner
  38. The Charioteer
  39. On Othrys
  40. For Virgil's Ship
  41. A Little Villa
  42. The Flute
  43. To Sextius
  44. The God of the Gardens, I
  45. The God of the Gardens, II
  46. The God of the Gardens, III
  47. The God of the Gardens, IV
  48. The God of the Gardens, V
  49. Tepidarium
  50. Tranquillus
  51. Lupercus
  52. The Trebia
  53. After Cannae
  54. To a Triumpher
  55. The Cydnus
  56. Evening of Battle
  57. Antony and Cleopatra
  58. The Vow
  59. The Spring
  60. The Beech-Tree God
  61. To the Divine Mountains
  62. The Exiled
  63. A Church Window
  64. Epiphany
  65. The Wood-worker of Nazareth
  66. A Medal
  67. The Rapier
  68. After Petrarch
  69. On the Book of Loves of Pierre de Ronsard
  70. The Beautiful Viole
  71. An Epitaph
  72. Gilded Vellum
  73. The Dogaressa
  74. On the Old Bridge
  75. The Old Goldsmith
  76. The Sword
  77. To Claudius Popelin
  78. Enamel
  79. Dreams of Enamel
  80. The Conquerors
  81. Youth
  82. The Tomb of the Conqueror
  83. In the Time of Charles the Fifth Emperor
  84. The Ancestor
  85. To a Founder of a City
  86. To the Same
  87. To a Dead City
  88. Vision of Khem, I
  89. Vision of Khem, II
  90. Vision of Khem, III
  91. The Prisoner
  92. The Samurai
  93. The Daimio
  94. Flowers of Fire
  95. The Century Flower
  96. The Coral Reef
  97. The Antique Medal
  98. The Funeral
  99. The Vintage
  100. Siesta
  101. A Painter
  102. Brittany
  103. A Flowery Sea
  104. Sunset
  105. Star of the Sea
  106. The Bath
  107. Celestial Blazon
  108. Armor
  109. A Rising Sea
  110. A Sea Breeze
  111. The Shell
  112. The Bed
  113. The Eagle's Death
  114. More Beyond
  115. The Life of the Dead
  116. To the Tragedian E. Rossi
  117. Michelangelo
  118. On a Broken Marble

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