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    Poems of Paul Verlaine
    Poems of Paul Verlaine
    Poems of Paul Verlaine
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    Poems of Paul Verlaine

    By Henry McCarter, Gertrude Hall Brownell and Paul Verlaine

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    PublisherArchive Classics
    Release dateSep 1, 1974
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      I've liked other symolists/decadents/whatever, but Verlaine didn't do it for me. I suppose it could have been the translation, but I doubt it.

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    Poems of Paul Verlaine - Henry McCarter

    The Project Gutenberg EBook of Poems of Paul Verlaine, by Paul Verlaine

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    Title: Poems of Paul Verlaine

    Author: Paul Verlaine

    Illustrator: Henry McCarter

    Translator: Gertrude Hall

    Release Date: August 8, 2009 [EBook #8426]

    Last Updated: February 7, 2013

    Language: English

    *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK POEMS OF PAUL VERLAINE ***

    Produced by Michael Castelluccio, and David Widger

    POEMS OF PAUL VERLAINE

    By Paul Verlaine

    Translated by Gertrude Hall

    Pictured by Henry McCarter

    CONTENTS

    Fêtes Galantes

    CLAIR DE LUNE.

    SUR L'HERBE.

    L' ALLÉE.

    A LA PROMENADE.

    LE FAUNE.

    MANDOLINE.

    L'AMOUR PAR TERRE

    EN SOURDINE

    COLLOQUE SENTIMENTAL

    SINCE SHADE RELENTS

    BEFORE YOUR LIGHT QUITE FAIL

    THE SCENE BEHIND THE CARRIAGE WINDOW-PANES

    Ariettes Oubliées

    Il pleut doucement sur la ville.—ARTHUR RIMBAUD

    Son joyeux, importun, d'un clavecin sonore.—PÉTRUS BOREL

    Paysages Belges

    BRUXELLES

    Birds in the Night

    GREEN

    STREETS

    THE FALSE FAIR DAYS

    GIVE EAR UNTO THE GENTLE LAY

    I'VE SEEN AGAIN THE ONE CHILD: VERILY

    SLEEP, DARKSOME, DEEP

    THE SKY-BLUE SMILES ABOVE THE ROOF

    Jadis et Naguère

    Jadis

    PROLOGUE

    LANGUEUR

    Naguère

    PROLOGUE

    Parallèlement

    IMPRESSION FAUSSE

    Poèmes Saturniens

    PROLOGUE

    Melancholia

    NEVERMORE

    Paysages Tristes

    CHANSON D'AUTOMNE

    IL BACIO

    ÉPILOGUE

    ILLUSTRATIONS

    Portrait of Paul Verlaine

    Clair de Lune

    En Sourdine

    Avant Que Tu T'en Ailles.

    Le Piano Que Baise Une Main Frêle

    Mon Dieu M'a Dit.

    Le Ciel et Les Toits.

    Crépuscule Du Soir Mystique.

    Fêtes Galantes

    CLAIR DE LUNE.

         Your soul is as a moonlit landscape fair,

            Peopled with maskers delicate and dim,

         That play on lutes and dance and have an air

            Of being sad in their fantastic trim.

         The while they celebrate in minor strain

            Triumphant love, effective enterprise,

         They have an air of knowing all is vain,—

            And through the quiet moonlight their songs rise,

         The melancholy moonlight, sweet and lone,

            That makes to dream the birds upon the tree,

         And in their polished basins of white stone

            The fountains tall to sob with ecstasy.

    SUR L'HERBE.

         The abbé rambles.—"You, marquis,

            Have put your wig on all awry."—

         "This wine of Cyprus kindles me

            Less, my Camargo, than your eye!"

         My passion—Do, mi, sol, la, si.—

            Abbé, your villany lies bare.—

         "Mesdames, I climb up yonder tree

            And fetch a star down, I declare."

         "Let each kiss his own lady, then

            The others.—Would that I were, too,

         A lap-dog!—Softly, gentlemen!"—

            Do, mi.—The moon!—Hey, how d'ye do?

    L' ALLÉE.

         Powdered and rouged as in the sheepcotes' day,

         Fragile 'mid her enormous ribbon bows,

         Along the shaded alley, where green grows

         The moss on the old seats, she wends her way

         With mincing graces and affected airs,

         Such as more oft a petted parrot wears.

         Her long gown with the train is blue; the

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