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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
TOMB (OF PAUL VERLAINE), by STEPHANE MALLARME Poem Explanation Poet's Biography
First Line: The dark rock angered to be blown by the blast
Last Line: A stream not very deep and calumniated death.
Subject(s): Poetry And Poets - French; Verlaine, Paul (1844-1896)
First Line: The dark rock angered to be blown by the blast
Last Line: A stream not very deep and calumniated death.
Subject(s): Poetry And Poets - French; Verlaine, Paul (1844-1896)
The dark rock angered to be blown by the blast
Will not be stilled either under pious hands
Groping its resemblance to human woes
As though in blessing of some dire mold.
Here nearly always if the mourning dove coos
This immaterial grief with many films of cloud
Overcasts the morrows' mellowed star
Destined in brilliance to besilver the crowd.
Who, by pursuing his solitary bourne
Presently external, seeks our vagabond --
Verlaine? He is hid amid the grass, Verlaine
Only to discover naively in accord,
Not crossing his lip or quenching his breath,
A stream not very deep and calumniated death.
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