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Enamels and Cameos and other Poems

This is a volume of poetry by French poet Theophile Gautier, translated by Agnes Lee. Enamels and Cameos was published when Gautier was touring the Middle East, is considered his supreme poetic achievement. - Summary by Carolin and Wikipedia (2 hr 11 min)

Chapters

The God and the Opal

Preface

Affinity - A Pantheistic Madrigal

The Poem of Woman - Marble of Paros

A Study of Hands

Variations on the Carnival of Venice

Symphony in White Major

Coquetry in Death

Heart's Diamond

Spring's First Smile

Contralto

Eyes of Blue

The Toreador's Serenade

Nostalgia of the Obelisks

Veterans of the Old Guard, December 15

Sea-Gloom

To a Rose-Coloured Gown

The World's Malicious

Ines de las Sierras - To Petra Camara

Odelet, After Anacreon

Smoke

Apollonia

The Blind Man

Song

Winter Fantasies

The Brook

Tombs and Funeral Pyres

Bjorn's Banquet

The Watch

The Mermaids

Two Love-Locks

The Tea-Rose

Carmen

What the Swallows Say - An Autumn Song

Christmas

The Dead Child's Playthings

After Writing My Dramatic Review

The Castle of Rembrance

Camellia and Meadow Daisy

The Fellah - A Water-Colour by Princess Mathilde

The Garret

The Cloud

The Blackbird

The Flower that Makes the Springtime

A Last Wish

The Dove

A Pleasant Evening

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