Arthur Rimbaud translations of Antico, Reve Pour l'hiver and Dawn
Arthur Rimbaud Translations of Antico (“Ancient” or “Antique”), Rêvé Pour l'hiver (“Winter Dream”), and Dawn
Antico (“Ancient” or “Antique”)
by Arthur Rimbaud
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch
Graceful son of Pan! Around your brow, crowned with flowers and berries, your eyes, lustrous spheres, revolve. Your cheeks, stained with wine sediments, seem hollow. Your white fangs gleam. Your lyre-like
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Categories:
reve, body, dream, flower, heart,
Form: Free verse
Reve Parisienne
Walking in the back streets of Paris
On a warm balmy evening
Talking with a friend enjoying
The night and watching
As the people went on their way
Unhurriedly ,also enjoying the day.
The pace was slow
Sun a fading glow
Shadows growing long
Nearby a busker sang a love song
While a nightingale
Gave a melodius refrain
We imagined a little ball
Which we
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Categories:
reve, city, dream, inspirational, paris,
Form: Narrative
Beyond Life, Deja Reve
I see that river
Beyond life
The one that flows
Through our dreams
I catch
Glimpses of it
Between the trees
And when I sleep
And if we match
Drift and flow
I can reach out
Drop my hand
In its current
Fill my head
With
Deja reve
Those moments
I’ve dreamt before
Then we
Meander apart
Again
It’s just beyond
The trees
And in my dreams
That river flows
And in my life
I’ve dreamt it before
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Categories:
reve, dream, life,
Form: Free verse
My Recurrent Dream, Translation of Paul Verlaine's Sonnet: Mon Reve Familier
My Recurrent Dream, Translation of Paul Verlaine's Sonnet : Mon Rêve Familier
I'm often subject to a strange and invasive dream
Of an elusive woman whom I love, and who loves me
And who at every encounter might not the same be
Nor altogether another be, yet forbearing in her love seem.
For knowing how my open
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Categories:
reve, dream, girl, love, mystery,
Form: Sonnet
Dream, Translation of Paul Verlaine's Poem: Reve
Dream
I give up writing poetry !
I’m going to be rich tomorrow.
I’d rather others took over the tow :
Who wishes ! Who wishes my double to be ?
Worthwhile endeavour, I dare testify :
Long hours given to the promenade
While attempting to rhyme a ballade,
I spent late nights and far away did lie.
Under a lucid and clear moon,
The
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Categories:
reve, poetry, poets,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Le Reve Lucide
le rêve lucide
ne peut pas revenir à
dormir
après un rêve si lucide
après vraiment croire que le monde que vous occupiez,
était en fait,
celui de droite ---
ne voulant pas quitter le confort de ce lieu
que vous nouvellement entré en
(bien qu'ayant aucune idée de comment),
où toutes les personnalités semblent agir de la sorte
que vous pensez qu'ils le feraient,
ce moment
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Categories:
reve, life,
Form: Free verse