Francis Vielé-Griffin (pseudonym of Egbert Ludovicus Viélé, 26 May 1864 – 12 November 1937), was a French symbolist poet.

He was born at Norfolk, Virginia, USA, the son of General Egbert Ludovicus Viele, and moved to France with his mother (the former Teresa Griffin) in 1872.

[1] Vielé-Griffin was educated in France and divided his time between Paris and Touraine.

He was a writer of vers libre and founded the highly influential journal Entretiens politiques et littéraires (1890–92).

He practiced a relaxed prosody, which did not take into account the obligatory alternation of masculine and feminine rhymes, the prohibition to rhyme a plural with a singular, replaces the rhyme with an assonance, if not neglected here and there the rhyme or assonancer: His work includes:[2] From “Euphonies” in Cull of April:[3] From "Dea" in Cull of April:[3]