What Apollinaire poem is Ferlinghetti referring to in "Reading Apollinaire by the Rouge River"?

Question

In Ferlinghetti's poem "Reading Apollinaire by the Rouge River," at the end it reads:
"As I sit reading a French poet
whose most famous poem is about
the river that runs through the city
taking time & life & lovers with it
and none returning
none returning"
I have read Apollinaire and tried researching this but still cannot figure out which poem he is referring to. Does anyone know?

Answer 1

ferlinghetti is talking about apollinaire's 'le pont mirabeau'.

'le pont mirabeau' is far from being apollinaire's 'most famous poem' - but it is the apollinaire poem that gets quoted on picture postcards.

this tells you a lot about the sort of poet ferlinghetti was.

Answer 2

Could he not simply be referring to the Seine, river Seine's old name!
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