Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, SENTIMENAL COLLOQUY, by PAUL VERLAINE


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First Line: In the old, lonely park all white with frost
Last Line: And only night can hear the words they say
Variant Title(s): Sentimental Dialogue; Sentimental Conversation
Subject(s): Love


In the old lonely ice-encrusted park
Two figures passed by in the embracing dark.
Their lips were soft but their cold eyes were dead
And silence hardly heard the words they said.
In the old lonely ice-encrusted park
Two ghosts relived their past with its lost spark.
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- "When you hear my name called, does your heart glow?
- Do you still dream of me with love?" "No."
- "Oh! those bright days of rushing ecstasy,
- Where kisses joined in rapture!" "Well, maybe."
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So both passed on and went their lonely way,
And only night heard what they say






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