Lamartine's most famous lines
The top 3 according to 3 votes from people: So, forever driven towards new shores, swept into eternal night with no return… · O lake! The year has barely run its course · The sun of the living no longer warms the dead.. (Updated Aug 26, 2022.)
'O time, suspend your flight', 'One person is missing and the whole world is empty', 'Man is a fallen god who remembers the heavens': the lines of Lamartine's Poetic Meditations (1820) that are still quoted, checked against the original edition.
Automatically translated (original in Français). See the original
Top 12
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So, forever driven towards new shores, swept into eternal night with no return…
'The Lake', first lines.
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2
O lake! The year has barely run its course
'The Lake'.
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The sun of the living no longer warms the dead.
'Isolation'.
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O time, suspend your flight! And you, propitious hours, suspend your course!
'The Lake'.
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Man has no harbour, time has no shore; it flows, and we pass on!
'The Lake'.
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Let everything say: They loved!
'The Lake', last line.
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Often on the mountain, in the shade of the old oak, at sunset I sadly sit down
'Isolation', first lines.
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One person is missing, and the whole world is empty.
'Isolation'.
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Man is a fallen god who remembers the heavens
'Man', addressed to Byron.
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10
I die and do not know what it is to be born.
'Man'.
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My heart, weary of everything, even of hope, will no longer trouble fate with its wishes
'The Valley', first lines.
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Hail, woods crowned with the last of the green! Yellowing leaves scattered on the grass!
'Autumn', first lines.
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