Verlaine Poems - Poems about 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......

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...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......

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...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......

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...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......

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... “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......

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...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......

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...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......

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...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......

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...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 ......

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...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......

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...(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......

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...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......

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...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......

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...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......

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...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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