Paul Verlaine
Paul Verlaine
Paul-Marie Verlainewas a French poet associated with the Symbolist movement. He is considered one of the greatest representatives of the fin de siècle in international and French poetry...
NationalityFrench
ProfessionPoet
Date of Birth30 March 1844
CityMetz, France
CountryFrance
beats heart
Here are fruits, flowers, leaves, and branches, And here is my heart which beats only for you.
fall sleep black
A vast black sleep falls over my life sleep, all hope sleep, all desire.
black london bugs
A flat black bug, that is London.
purple gold
I like this word decadent; all shimmering and purple and gold.
son necks break
Prends l'e loquence et tords-lui son cou! Take eloquence and break its neck!
law ducks drunk
London, black as crows and noisy as ducks, prudish with all the vices in evidence, everlastingly drunk, in spite of ridiculous laws about drunkenness, immense, though it is really basically only a collection of scandal-mongering boroughs, vying with each other, ugly and dull, without any monuments except interminable docks.
necks eloquence
Take eloquence and wring its neck.
flower childhood dew
Sap which mounts, and flowers which thrust, Your childhood is a bower: Let my fingers wander in the moss Where glows the rosebud Let me among the clean grasses Drink the drops of dew Which sprinkle the tender flower
practice
La musique avant toute chose.
beautiful dream song
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.
adventure funny-travel poet
The poet is a madman lost in adventure.
air music-is
Music before all else, and for that choose the irregular, which is vaguer and melts better into the air...
fall rain heart
Tears fall in my heart like the rain on the town.
love flower heart
Here are fruits, flowers, leaves and branches, and here is my heart which beats only for you.