Long Symbolist Poems
Long Symbolist Poems. Below are the most popular long Symbolist by PoetrySoup Members. You can search for long Symbolist poems by poem length and keyword.
Renee Vivien Translations
Renee Vivien Translations
Song
by Renée Vivien
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch
When the moon weeps,
illuminating flowers on the graves of the faithful,
my memories creep
back to you, wrapped in flightless wings.
It's getting late; soon we will sleep
(your eyes...
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Categories:
symbolist, analogy, image, imagery, love, metaphor, surreal, symbolism,
Form:
Sonnet
Paul Verlaine Translation: It Rains In My Heart
Il pleure dans mon coeur (“It rains in my heart”)
by Paul Verlaine
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch
It rains in my heart
As it rains on the town;
Heavy languor and dark
Drenches my heart.
Oh, the sweet-sounding rain
Cleansing pavements...
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Categories:
symbolist, french, hate, heart, love, pain, paris, rain,
Form:
Verse
Stephane Mallarme Translations
These are my modern English translations of sonnets by the French poet Stephane Mallarme.
The Tomb of Edgar Poe
by Stéphane Mallarmé
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch
Transformed into himself by Death, at last,
the Bard unsheathed his Art’s...
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Categories:
symbolist, eulogy, extended metaphor, french, poetry, poets, surreal,
Form:
Sonnet
Rambling Fred
Excuse my rambling on so,
but my style ought to be
...
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Categories:
symbolist, character, nature, philosophy,
Form:
Free verse
Tales of a Paris Flaneur
Early days as a flaneur;
I recall the couple
On the Metro
When I was still innocent
Of its labyrinthine complexities;
Slim pretty white girl,
Clad head to toe
In new blue denim,
Wistfully smiling
While her muscular black beau...
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Categories:
symbolist, friend, loneliness, pain, paris, sad,
Form:
Prose Poetry
Gustav Klimt
"The Three Ages of Woman," painted by
the noted symbolist named Gustav Klimt;
from Austria, late-nineteenth century
till early twentieth, he left his mark.
At center, woman with her child held close;
...
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Categories:
symbolist, art, how i feel, imagery,
Form:
Blank verse
Battle of the Sexes
battle of the sexes
~~MONA LISA SMILE
Picture Oil painting worthwhile
Leonardo DA Vinci, look out!
What is she really smiling about?
(((The popularity of the Mona Lisa increased in the mid 19th century
because of the Symbolist movement....
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Categories:
symbolist, funny, history, me,
Form:
Clerihew
Lilith
“The actual guise of her has become apparent” ~~ The Poet
Engaged in rapturous slander.
Forced by reputation to meander.
Through the annals of time,
Deemed worse than a witch sublime
Indicted as a demon in old folk lore
Seducing...
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Categories:
symbolist, night,
Form:
Rhyme
The Muse By John Lars Zwerenz
THE MUSE
I shall leave the city, the bustling town.
I shall walk to the outskirts of the wild plains,
And drink from heaven mystic rains,
Lying in the reeds, drunk upon the down.
My shoes are worn,...
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Categories:
symbolist, adventure, art, beautiful, christian, garden, happy, heart,
Form:
Verse
As Juliette Once Wrote Me
...my paris begins with those early days as as a conscious flaneur I recall the couple seated opposite me on the metro when i was still innocent of its labyrinthine complexity slim pretty white girl...
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Categories:
symbolist, friendship, memory, nostalgia, paradise, paris, poetry, poets,
Form:
Free verse
From the Labyrinthine Metro
my paris begins with
those early days
as a conscious flaneur
i recall the couple
seated opposite me
on the metro
when i was still innocent
of its labyrinthine complexity
slim pretty white girl
clad...
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Categories:
symbolist, books, city, drink, fear, friend, friendship, paris,
Form:
Free verse
Artchard
You've heard of an orchard/
I've stirred up an artchard with girthed art to be heard/
Words come in with fun as the function never turned defunct/
Metaphors and puns run an injunction to sever clues debunked/
In...
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Categories:
symbolist, adventure, art, character, confidence, courage, faith, future,
Form:
Rhyme
Paul Verlaine Translation: Spleen
Spleen
by Paul Verlaine
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch
The roses were so very red;
The ivy, impossibly black.
Dear, with a mere a turn of your head,
My despair’s flooded back!
The sky was too gentle, too blue;
The sea, far...
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Categories:
symbolist, blue, depression, green, paris, rose, sea, sky,
Form:
Verse
Demon M Vrubel
Demon (M. Vrubel)
The hour.
The hour of violet.
Who’s there above the violet
twilight flying?
It’s gnawing its flesh
and hits its shadow in the rocks.
It’s you, isn’t it?
The last child of sorrow.
The lost breath of God.
The fear of the...
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Categories:
symbolist, color, silver, symbolism,
Form:
Free verse
Symbolist Sweethearts B
ENTICEMENT
Allurement,in her look
come hither-Franz Stuck
JUDITH
with Judith 1
Klimt's fame had began
TEMPTATION
Temptation's face
with whispers so ofteensnare + enlace
NIMIANE
Merlin knew the future and the past
but she lulled him to sleep,so fast
DRYOPE
Alas,alas poor Hylas
trapped by love
of this beautiful lass
APRIL...
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Categories:
symbolist, art
Form:
Ekphrasis