Verlaine Poems - Poems about Verlaine

The Empty Pea Pod: Rimbaud et Verlaine

...pact fusion hath brewed
welds cauldron spewed spit fiery
sparse talents biformed renowned
oddity affair
ardent youth pose statuesque
fragile innards touch grotesque
bursts end aggression
sever...

Bistro Boheme - a French poetry band that sets old classics into song

...How does it sound when Rimbaud rocks and Baudelaire has got the Blues? 
When Verlaine vibes to the beat and Apollinaire to arpeggios?
Bistro Bohème tries to answer these questions!
We are a French...

Quatrain Tranquil Eyes

...Poet, Rich of my quiet cherry trees,
Of my peaceful lilacs like pink stones,
Rich in my willows in ardent prayer, prose,
I can finally think of your tranquil eyes.


Poète, Riche de mes cerisie...

Im Sorry Rim,

...As I reach my hand twords the light, I see you. I feel you. You must see me too, my love.
Its almost as if your still here.
You we're the one person that mde me feel, the one person I could rely on...

Lost Pantheons

...
“Lost Pantheons” 

Alexandrine tragedies
Racine diamond-edged
come and go 
French letters 
blown like leaves
straight up 
into the rarefied air
scattered like lovers
a...

Homage To the Gay Poets

...I was wondering how many renowned gay poets I know— 
Like Oscar Wilde, Walt Whitman, and Arthur Rimbaud? 
Edna St. Vincent Millay and Alice Walker, I am told, 
Both Sylvia Plath and Gertrude Stein...

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 flood...

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
Dr...

A Self-Tutoring Translation of Rimbaud's the Vowels In Contemporary Terms

...A Self-Tutoring Translation of RIMBAUD's " The Vowels " in Contemporary Terms

(" The Vowels " in the Paul Verlaine (first version) copy in RIMBAUD Œuvres complètes. Ed. by Pierre Brunel. Paris ...

Angels and Lyres

...Gleaming, shining silver wire
Admiring skills of a crafted lyre
Music heard in all it's glory
Lured to listen to an angel story

Alas they yearn to hear the sound
Angel whispers intelligence bo...

My Recurring Dream

...(after Paul Verlaine)

I often have this strange and vivid dream: 
a woman I don't know - but we're in love. 
She's not, each time I see her, quite the same, 
nor truly other: loves me, and know...

Ballade: In Favour of Those Called Decadents and Symbolists, Translation of Paul Verlaine's Poem

...Ballade : In favour of those called Decadents and Symbolists, Translation of Paul Verlaine’s Ballade en faveur des dénommés Décadents et Symbolistes

						for Léon Vanier*

(The texts I use for my t...

Conquistador, Translation of Paul Verlaine's Tercets: Conquistador

...Conquistador, Translation of Paul Verlaine’s tercets : Conquistador

Message to fellow soupers: I have been trying to upload, in vain, yet another translation of a 
 Paul Verlaine poem titled: "Ba...

Lament, Translation of Paul Verlaine's Poem: Lamento

...Lament, Translation of Paul Verlaine’s poem : Lamento

					Ma mie est morte.
					Plourez mes yeux.
(from an old poet of the fourteenth century whose name escapes me. Paul Verlaine)

The town hoists...

Epilogue, Translation of Paul Verlaine's Poem: Epilogue

...Epilogue, Translation of Paul Verlaine’s poem : Epilogue

     By way of a Farewell to « personal » poetry. Paul Verlaine, March 1895

(Towards the end of his rather short and tumultuous life, Verlai...

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