Lamartine

French poet, writer, and politician. Lacordaire lists "Lamartine's The Lake" among the greatest secular poetry, set below the prophets.

Pope Clement VIII, Jerome's Prefaces, On Worship

• ON THE WORSHIP OF JESUS CHRIST IN THE SCRIPTURES. — Lacordaire lists "Lamartine's The Lake with its waters, its shores, and his beloved" among the greatest secular poetry, set below the prophets

  "Lamartine's The Lake with its waters, its shores, and his beloved"

• ON THE WORSHIP OF JESUS CHRIST IN THE SCRIPTURES. — "When Lamartine's beloved turned her eyes for the last time upon the waters that had cradled her confidences — the muse of man is spent"

  "when Lamartine's beloved turned her eyes for the last time upon the waters"