Selected Poems

''Live now and listen, do not wait in vain Until tomorrow; pluck life''s rose today.''Joachim du Bellay and Pierre de Ronsard are two of the major sixteenth-century French poets and leaders of the extraordinary group known as ''La Pléiade''. Determined to create a national vernacular literature, the Pléiade poets profited from an intense study of Greek and Roman models and from a creative use of c...