Paul Verlaine
Born
in Metz, France
March 30, 1844
Died
January 08, 1896
Genre
Influences
Poèmes saturniens
86 editions
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published
1866
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Selected Poems
by
41 editions
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published
1909
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Fêtes galantes / Romances sans paroles / Poèmes saturniens
6 editions
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published
1874
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Romances sans paroles
74 editions
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published
1874
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The Cursed Poets
by
100 editions
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published
1884
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One Hundred and One Poems by Paul Verlaine: A Bilingual Edition
by
6 editions
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published
1999
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Paul Verlaine - Oeuvres poétiques complètes
37 editions
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published
1938
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Poemes saturniens suivi de fetes galantes
29 editions
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published
1961
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Fêtes galantes
52 editions
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published
1869
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Poésies
20 editions
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published
2009
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“Tears are shed in my heart like the rain on the town.
(Il pleure dans mon coeur
Comme il pleut sur la ville.)”
― Romances sans paroles
(Il pleure dans mon coeur
Comme il pleut sur la ville.)”
― Romances sans paroles
“Your soul is a chosen landscape
Where charming masked and costumed figures go
Playing the lute and dancing and almost
Sad beneath their fantastic disguises.
All sing in a minor key
Of all-conquering love and careless fortune
They do not seem to believe in their happiness
And their song mingles with the moonlight.
The still moonlight, sad and beautiful,
Which gives the birds to dream in the trees
And makes the fountain sprays sob in ecstasy,
The tall, slender fountain sprays among the marble statues.”
― Fêtes galantes
Where charming masked and costumed figures go
Playing the lute and dancing and almost
Sad beneath their fantastic disguises.
All sing in a minor key
Of all-conquering love and careless fortune
They do not seem to believe in their happiness
And their song mingles with the moonlight.
The still moonlight, sad and beautiful,
Which gives the birds to dream in the trees
And makes the fountain sprays sob in ecstasy,
The tall, slender fountain sprays among the marble statues.”
― Fêtes galantes
“Here are fruits, flowers, leaves and branches, and here is my heart which beats only for you.”
― Romances sans paroles
― Romances sans paroles
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