Verlaine Poems - Poems about Verlaine

...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......Read the rest...

...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......Read the rest...

... “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......Read the rest...

...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......Read the rest...

...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......Read the rest...

...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......Read the rest...

...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 ......Read the rest...

...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......Read the rest...

...(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......Read the rest...

...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......Read the rest...

...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......Read the rest...

...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......Read the rest...

...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......Read the rest...

...Prison Souvenirs, Translation of Paul Verlaine’s poem : Souvenirs de prison, March 1874* (Verlaine was sentenced to serve a term of two years in prison for having shot his erstwhile lover in the arm......Read the rest...

...The Evening Soup, Translation of Paul Verlaine’s La soupe du soir To J.-K. Huysmans (Verlaine here paints a stark tableau of working-class or peasant life shorn of any symbolic or imaginary r......Read the rest...