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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Author: VERLAINE, PAUL Matches Found: 296 Verlaine, Paul Poet's Biography 296 poems available by this author A BAD SLEEPER Poem Text First Line: He is a bad sleeper and it is a joy to me Subject(s): Gays & Lesbians A CONFESSION Poem Text First Line: O my god, thou hast wounded me with love Subject(s): Religion; Theology A FORGOTTEN TUNE Poem Text First Line: A frail hand hovering sets the keys astir Last Line: Beyond the window where the garden blows? Subject(s): Longing; Music & Musicians A GREAT DARK SLEEP Poem Text Last Line: A sorry story Subject(s): Sleep ABOVE THE ROOF THE SKY IS FAIR Last Line: Tell me, what have you done, you there, %with youth's best years?' ACCOMPANYING A SKETCH First Line: Verlaine, paul - artist: felix regamey Last Line: Digests his bacon slab and slice of cod AFTER THREE YEARS First Line: Thrusting open the narrow door, leaving it to swing ALLEGORY First Line: Despotic, heavy, colorless, the summer Last Line: Extends its flowings and its flowings back... %wasps, here and there, are flying, yellow and black ALLEGORY First Line: Despotic summer, heavy, colorless Last Line: Black, yellow dragonflies dart here, dart there ALLEGORY First Line: A mountain summit - yellow, faint: and there Last Line: Counterfeit as my very destiny? AMONG THE TREES Last Line: From realms above... %the hour for love AN EXCHANGE OF FEELINGS Poem Text First Line: In the old park, deserted in the frost Last Line: And in the little garden die again? Subject(s): Love; Mourning; Bereavement AND GOD SAID TO ME: MY SON, YOU MUST LOVE ME. YOU SEE Last Line: I sweated the sweat of your nighttimes, pitiable friend %whoseeks for me where I am? ANGUISH First Line: Nature, thou movst me not at all, nor fields ANOTHER DRINK SONG First Line: When all is said and done, I win Last Line: - yes, share (a little of) this fine schiedam divine! ANOTHER SONG WITHOUT WORDS Poem Text First Line: Too red, too red the roses were Last Line: And of all things but you . . . But you. . . . Subject(s): Flowers; Hair; Roses; Singing & Singers APATHY Poem Text First Line: I am the empire at the end of its decadence Last Line: Nothing but a nameless boredom to afflict you. Subject(s): Apathy; France ARS POETICA First Line: First and foremost comes musical line Last Line: And all the rest is literary ARS POETICA First Line: Music first and foremost! In your verse Last Line: All the rest is nothing more than writing ARSEHOLE Poem Text First Line: It is shy as a gathered eyelet Last Line: I fed that famished mouth my ambergris Subject(s): Love - Erotic ARSEHOLE First Line: It is shy as a gathered eyelet Last Line: I fed that famished mouth my ambergris Subject(s): Erotic Love ART OF POETRY First Line: Music before everything, and for that reason, prefer lines of an un- Last Line: Smells of mint and thyme--and anything else in literature ART OF POETRY First Line: Music before anything else, and for such composing Last Line: Which always smells of thyme and of mint... %and all the rest is literature AUTUMN SONG Poem Text First Line: The heavy thrall / of the sobbing call Last Line: Dead leaf. Subject(s): Autumn AUTUMN SONG First Line: The long sobs of the autumn violins owund my heart with a melan- Last Line: Bears me now here, now there, like a dead leaf AUTUMN SONG First Line: The sobs long drawn %of the autumn %violins Last Line: To this area %and that, like the %leaf that is dead AUTUMN SONG First Line: Violins complain %of autumn again Last Line: And I rise and go %like a dead leaf AUTUMN SONG First Line: The autumn's throbbing %strings moan, sobbing Last Line: Now here, now there - %aimless, lost AWAKENING First Line: It's back to poetry for me! Last Line: It's back to poetry for me BAD SLEEPER First Line: He is a bad sleeper and it is a joy to me Last Line: Am I hapy? Totus in benigo positus! Subject(s): Homosexuality BEAUTE DES FEMMES, LEUR FAIBLESSE, ET CES MAINS BEAUTIFUL FALSELIGHT GLEAMS ALL DAY, MY SOUL BEAUTY OF WOMEN, WEAKNESS, PALE SOFT SKIN Last Line: When death arrives, what lasts when we are gone? BEFORE YOU DEPART Last Line: --quick, quick, for here comes %the golden sun.-- BLONDE? BROWN? WHICH IS YOUR HAIR? Last Line: My pleasure, serve my being's most treasured need! BON CHEVALIER MASQUE QUI CHEVAUCHEEN SILENCE BOURNEMOUTH First Line: Le long bois de sapins se tord jusqu'au rivage BRIGHT IN THE EVENING'S GRAY AND PINKISH BLUR Last Line: You, who will soon be dying, over by %the window open on the greenery? BRUSSELS First Line: The fleeting hills and slopes are pink and greenish, in a half-light of Last Line: Side. The fields around--oh! Why is our love not nestled there! BRUSSELS, MERRY-GO-ROUND First Line: Go round, go round, good merry-go-round Last Line: Now the lover and his mistress depart. %go round to the joyful sound of the drums! C'EST L'EXTASE LANGOUREUSE Poem Text First Line: It is the ecstasy of languor Subject(s): Conscientious Objectors C'EST L'EXTASE LANGOUREUSE First Line: It is the ecstasy of languor Last Line: Through this tepid evening, so low Subject(s): Conscientious Objectors CHANSON D'AUTOMNE Poem Text First Line: The autumn wind wails thin, / like a sobbing violin Last Line: When the winter gusts begin to and fro Subject(s): Wind; Grief; Winter CHANSON D'AUTOMNE First Line: The long-drawn sighs CHARLEROI First Line: The kobolds come! %grass, black. And deep Last Line: The winds. They weep. %or so think some CIRCUMSPECTION First Line: Give me your hand, hold still your breath, let's sit Last Line: Nature, that fearsome god, ferocious, mute CITY!' GAUDY CLUSTER OF WHITE STONES Last Line: Harbors a soul, racked, weeping, rent in two CLAIR DE LUNE First Line: Your soul is a moonlit landscape fair Subject(s): Moon CLAIR DE LUNE First Line: Your soul is a sealed garden, and there go Last Line: And the slim fountains sob into the air %among the marble statues in the glade Subject(s): Moon CLAIR DE LUNE First Line: Your soul is a moonlit landscape fair Subject(s): Moon COLLOQUE SENTIMENTAL Poem Text First Line: In the deserted park, silent and vast Last Line: And night alone o'erheard the things they said. COLLOQUE SENTIMENTAL First Line: In the old, desolate park, in frost Last Line: Their talk only the night has caught COLLOQUE SENTIMENTALE First Line: In the old park, solitary and vast COLOMBINE First Line: The foolish leander COLOMBINE First Line: The dimwitted leander, %the hood-headed cassander Last Line: Her legion d'amour %of dupes? CONFESSION First Line: O my god, hou hast wounded me with love Subject(s): Religion CORTEGE Poem Text First Line: A silver-vested monkey trips Last Line: Indifferent or unaware. Subject(s): Monkeys CORTEGE First Line: An ape, in brocade jacket dressed Last Line: Brash tribute that her pets are paying COVERING THE LAND Last Line: Blurring the terrain, snow haze gleams like sand CRIMEN AMORIS (THE CRIME OF LOVE) First Line: In a palace, silk and gold, in ecbatana Last Line: Adores, expands in an ecstasy and beseeches %the merciful god who will keep us form evil DAHLIA First Line: Hard-bosomed courtesan, magnificent Last Line: Irksome, among the jasmines, who abhor you! DEATH First Line: Our swords commands are silent now, expect Last Line: Death that, in victory, sings its affirmation DREAM First Line: No! No more poetry! I'm through! Last Line: For a reason: for tomorrow I'm %inheriting a sack of gold DRINK SONG First Line: A drunken sot, that's what I am! Last Line: I can't go fetch a glass or two to treat you to E'S FINCH First Line: Incredible: that pretty finch of e's Last Line: You added this, as bright a mot as that: %'perhaps he'd have gone better on my hat!' Subject(s): Love ECOUTEZ LA CHANSON BIEN DOUCE EN SOURDINE First Line: Calm where the twilight leaves have stilled Last Line: The delight of our despair Subject(s): Love ERE THY SOFT RAY BE LOST Poem Text Last Line: Behold! The first sunbeam Subject(s): Dawn EXCHANGE OF FEELINGS First Line: In the old park, deserted in the frost Last Line: So they walk on in the self-seeding grass %with only night to hear them as they pass Subject(s): Love; Mourning EXILE First Line: O sad, o sad my spirit was Subject(s): Love FALL SONG First Line: Low notes drawn long, %fall's fiddlesong Last Line: Like a leaf %once alive FALLING DUSK First Line: The rising moon glows red through fitful sleep Last Line: Come, love, watch venus rise, for it is night FALSE IMPRESSION First Line: Madam mouse trips by Last Line: Up, you dawdler, you! FAUN First Line: Antique clay faun FAUN First Line: An old terra-cotta faun laughs out Last Line: Unto this hour whose fligt whirls to %the sound of the tambourins FAUN First Line: An ancient terra cotta faun %laughs on the green: sign, probably Last Line: To this one hour, now spun and gone %midst tambourines' cacophony FEMME ET CHATTE Poem Text First Line: O she was playing with her cat Last Line: By four bright stars of phosphorus Subject(s): Animals; Cats FEMME ET CHATTE First Line: They were just playing, lady and cat Last Line: Four dazzling points of phosphor gleamed Subject(s): Animals; Cats FEMME ET CHATTE Poem Text First Line: O she was playing with her cat Subject(s): Animals; Cats FETES GALANTES: A CLYMENE Poem Text First Line: Mystical strains unheard Last Line: So let it be! FETES GALANTES: CYTHERE Poem Text First Line: By favourable breezes fanned Last Line: The folly of love's sacrifices. FETES GALANTES: FANTOCHES Poem Text First Line: Scaramouche waves a threatening hand Last Line: Of the loud languorous nightingale. FETES GALANTES: L'ALEE Poem Text First Line: As in the age of shepherd king and queen Last Line: The slightly simpering sparkle of the eye. FETES GALANTES: L'AMOUR PAR TERRE Poem Text First Line: The wind the other evening over threw Last Line: Brightening the littered leaves upon the ground? FETES GALANTES: LES INDOLENTS Poem Text First Line: Bah! Spite of fate, that says us nay Last Line: Ha! Ha! Ha! What fantastic lovers! FETES GALANTES: MANDOLINE Poem Text First Line: The singers of serenades Last Line: Ecstasy of the moon. Subject(s): Musical Instruments FETES GALANTES: PANYOMIME Poem Text First Line: Pierrot, no sentimental swain Last Line: And in her heart a voice that sighs. Subject(s): Pantomime FETES GALANTES: ROMANCES SANS PAROLE, SELECTION Poem Text First Line: Tears in my heart that weeps Last Line: Why thou hast all this woe. Subject(s): Grief; Sorrow; Sadness FETES GALANTES: ROMANCES SANS PAROLE: 4 First Line: O sad, sad was my soul, alas Last Line: We are divided or together Subject(s): Love FETES GALANTES: ROMANCES SANS PAROLE: 7 Poem Text First Line: The roses were all red Last Line: And all but you, alas Subject(s): Love FETES GALANTES: ROMANCES SANS PAROLE: 7 First Line: The roses were all red Last Line: And all but you, alas Subject(s): Love FOG! First Line: Our paris fog is dull; one might Last Line: I worship her, and she loves me FOR ARTHUR RIMBAUD First Line: Human, an angel, and a demon - or Last Line: White feet, in triumph, poised on envy's head FOR BIBI-PUREE First Line: Curious bird, %bibi-puree Last Line: Your paupery, your opulence? FOR CHARLES BAUDELAIRE First Line: I do not know you now, or like you, nor Last Line: A simple death, eh? We, brothers in sin FOR CLYMENE First Line: Songs of the gondolier, %vague, wordless airs; my dear Last Line: My tenuous heart, amen! %so be it then! FOR EDMOND LEPELLETIER First Line: My oldest friend, last of that score Last Line: Heart; for won't we, too, join their number? FOR GEORGES VERLAINE First Line: This book will reach you as, in bygone time Last Line: Fear god, hate none, bear well your name that I, %in proper fashion, bore FOR MADEMOISELLE First Line: Rustic belle, indiscreet, %dark-corner debauchee Last Line: I envy all those clods %who get to lie with you FROM SAGESSE Poem Text First Line: Slumber dark and deep Last Line: Silence, like the grave. Subject(s): Dreams; Rest; Silence; Sleep; Nightmares GARDEN WAY First Line: Fair as a queen in mock-heroic days Last Line: Sets off the sparkle in her pale blue eyes GERMAIN NOUVEAU First Line: Ce fut a londres, ville ou l'anglaise domine GOD SPAKE AND SAID Poem Text Last Line: Thy neighbor in the dark o hapless fried Subject(s): God GREAT BLACK SOMNOLENCE FALLS OVER MY LIFE. SLEEP... Last Line: Bad--such a misfortune! I am a cradel rocked by a hand in the depths of %a vault. Silence, silence! GREAT DARK DROWSINESS Last Line: A hand is rocking in %the pit of a burial vault: %be silent,be silent! GREEN Poem Text First Line: Here fruit and flowers I bring to thee; green leaves and sprays I proffer Last Line: And sleep awhile, when thy fond love its haven shall have found. Subject(s): Flowers; Kisses; Love; Nature; Soul GREEN First Line: Here you have fruits and flowers and boughs with leaves Last Line: In a brief sleep, since you too are at rest GREEN First Line: Here are some fruits, some flowers, some branches and Last Line: Let it calm down from the good tempest, %and let me sleep a little since you are resting GREEN First Line: Here, take these boughs, leaves, fruits, and flowers. And take Last Line: Me sleep a little, even as you rest HEDGES BILLOW LIKE THE SEA'S Last Line: Up, up, into the milk-white sky HOPE SHINES LIKE A BLADE OF STRAW IN THE CATTLE STABLE Last Line: Hope shines like a pebble in a pit. Ah, when %will the roses of september flower again? HOPE SHINES LIKE A WISP OF STRAW IN THE STABLE. WHAT DO... Last Line: Hope shines like a stone in a hole on the road. Ah, hwen will the sep- %tember roses flower again! HOPE SHINES SMALL, A SPLINTER OF STRAW IN THE STABLE HORN'S SOUND IN THE WOOD SOBS DOLEFULLY Last Line: Spreads, lanquid, its caress over the land HOUR OF THE SHEPHERD First Line: The moon hanging red on the fog HUNTING HORN GRIEVES TOWARDS THE FOREST WITH Last Line: For such sweetness on this monotonous evening dwells %in which a sluggish landscape coddles itself I DREAMED OF YOU LAST NIGHT; AND YOU Last Line: But more our festive lustfulness! I KNOW NOT WHY Poem Text Last Line: On restless, frantic pinions Subject(s): Soul I USED TO WANDER AIMLESSLY Last Line: Joined us as one in joyousness I'M POORER THAN I'VE EVER BEEN Last Line: My very senses lie in thrall %to your command? I'VE HAD NO LUCK WITH WOMEN Last Line: You love me, don't you? And I love you IL BACIO Poem Text First Line: Kiss! Hollyhock in love's luxuriant close! Last Line: Red lips of one I know, a light and smile! Subject(s): Kisses IL PLEUT DOUCEMENT SUR LA VILLE Poem Text First Line: Tears fall within mine heart Last Line: Mine heart is desolate. Subject(s): Desolation; Grief; Sorrow; Sadness IN MARY'S HUMBLE EAR Last Line: His every wish and whim: %and that's enough for him IN MUTED TONE First Line: Gently, let us steep our love Last Line: Our despair will, solemn, sing IN MY HEART THERE IS WEEPING Last Line: Without love or hate to explain %my heart feels so much pain! IN THAT CAFE CROWDED WITH FOOLS WE STOOD Last Line: Under the table jetted great white sneezes IN THE ENDLESS ENNUI Last Line: Of the meadowland %snow falling unsteadily %glistens like sand IN THE INTERMINABLE IN THE STYLE OF PAUL VERLAINE First Line: It's the moonlight's fault if I put on Last Line: Not without its pains, injected me IN THE UNDENDING / TEDIUM OF THE PLAIN IN THE WOODS Poem Text First Line: Other people - innocents or lunatics / find in the woods only pallid charms Last Line: Sound like waiting assassins plotting to strike. Subject(s): Fear; Forests; Night; Woods; Bedtime INNOCENCE First Line: High heels and trailing skirts confront strong winds Last Line: We thought our very being throbbed with love INNOCENT BOYS First Line: High heels caught in a swirl of lace INNOCENTS WE First Line: Their long skirts and high heels battled away Last Line: Lies that still set our souls trembling with awe IT'S THANKS TO YOU I SEE HOW I Last Line: Drawn by a double magnet toward %the devil...Or whatever IT'S THE LANGUOROUS ECSTASY Last Line: Love, this balmy eventide, %in a humble, soft refrain KALEIDOSCOPE First Line: On a street in the heart of a dream city, it will be just as if one had Last Line: The shimmering sound of a bee in flight KALEIDOSCOPE First Line: On a street, in the heart of a dream city Last Line: In the summer's grass, to the moire noise of the flight of a bee L'ALLEE First Line: Strawberry juice cheeks and dusted eyes (something LA MER DE BOURNEMOUTH First Line: La me est plus belle LA PROMENADE First Line: The sky so pale, and the trees, such frail things Last Line: With a shy pity pouting in the mouth LAME SONNET First Line: Ah, it's really sad, ah, really it's ending too badly. It shouldn't be Last Line: Ending too badly, it's sad. O the fire from heaven on this city from the %bible! LANE First Line: Face painted, powdered, as in olden days' Last Line: The slightly daft flamboyance of her glances LANGUOR Poem Text First Line: I am the empire at the end of its decadence LANGUOR First Line: I am the empire at the end of the decadence, watching the tall white Last Line: Lascivious slave hwo neglects me, nothing but a weariness of heaven knows-what afflicting me LANGUOR First Line: I am the empire at the end of its decadence LANGUOR First Line: I am the empire as the decadence Last Line: Only a vague ennui's dim, obscure anguish LANGUOR First Line: I am the empire at the end of decadence Last Line: As rest from ennui, an empty spirit's play LAST 'FETE GALANTE' First Line: Once and for all, enough! Let's bid adieu Last Line: With howl and hoot, for sodom and gomorrah LAST HOPE First Line: Beside a humble stone, a tree Last Line: Will your love keep my memory fresh? LAST STANZA First Line: Belgium, whom I owe my harsh leisure to Last Line: Open your stolid prison: let me be! LATE WISDOM Poem Text First Line: Above the roof, the sky expands Last Line: Of long ago. Subject(s): Life; Tears LETTRE (FROM FETES GALANTES) Poem Text First Line: Far from your side removed by thankless Last Line: Be worth the trouble it took to write? Subject(s): Love LETTRE (FROM FETES GALANTES) First Line: Far from your side removed by thankless Last Line: Be worth the trouble that it took to write Subject(s): Love LIGHT OF THE MOON First Line: Your soul is a rare landscape Last Line: And jets of water weep with joy, %thin jets of water among marble statues LIKE CITY'S RAIN, MY HEART Last Line: As simply not to know %why my heart suffers so LIMBO First Line: Queen imagination - she %of the outspread wings: her gown Last Line: Now queen madgination reigns %solitary in her glory LISTEN TO THE GENTLE SONG, WHICH WEEPS ONLY TO PLEASE... Last Line: Message is clear. Listen to the wise song LOINS First Line: Last night two women came to me, a pair Last Line: Astonished at my utter apathy LONDRES First Line: Un dimanche d'ete quand le soleil s'en mele LOVE CAST DOWN First Line: The wind, one night, laid cupid's statue low Last Line: Flitting above love's bower-blown remains LOVE OVERTURNED First Line: The rude wind the other night cast down poor love LOVER'S HOUR First Line: Behind a film of mist the moon is red Last Line: White venus now comes out, and it is night LOVER, WHEN YOU LOOK FOR LICE Last Line: I'll come out the winner! LOVERS' CHAT First Line: In the drear park, beneath a chill, bleak sky Last Line: And night alone heard what they had to say LUST First Line: Flesh, sole fruit tasted of earthly orchards, bitter and sweet fruit that Last Line: Overcome the dreamer, a holy hour or not, what does it matter to your %ecstasy, love and flesh? Subject(s): Lust MANDOLIN First Line: The serenaders and %the beautiful listeners bandy Last Line: Of a moon that is pink and gray, %and the mandolin chatters away %amid the shivers of the breeze MANDOLIN First Line: There, beneath the echoing trees Last Line: Twangs the breezes with its tune MANDOLINS First Line: The strolling minstrels sing Last Line: Strum half-remembered tunes MON REVE FAMILIER First Line: Je fais souvent ce reve etrange et penetrant MOON SHINES WHITE Last Line: Made iridescent %by the star... %it's the exquisite hour MOONLIGHT Poem Text First Line: Your soul is a landscape rare Last Line: To the tall fountains, slender among the statuary Subject(s): Moon; Gardens & Gardens & Gardening; Soul; Love; Landscape MOONLIGHT First Line: Your soil is a chosen landscape Last Line: The great, slim fountains between the statues MOONLIGHT First Line: Your soul is a selected landscape that maskers Last Line: And the fountains weep with ecstasy, %the great svelte fountains amid the marble statues MOONLIGHT First Line: Your soul is like a landscape fantasy Last Line: Slender jet-fountains - sob their ecstasies MORNING STAR, BEFORE YOU PALE Last Line: See? The golden sun comes peeping! MY APOLOGY First Line: I am a strange man, just a criminal Last Line: But, lord, keep me from the foolishness of pride MY FAMILIAR DREAM Poem Text First Line: Often I have this dream, strange and penetrating Last Line: The tone of dear voices, those that have died Subject(s): Dreams; Love; Nightmares MY FAMILIAR DREAM First Line: I often have this strange and penetrating dream Last Line: For her voice, distant, and calm, and grave, she has %the inflection of beloved voices that have bec MY FAMILIAR DREAM First Line: I often have a strange and penetrating dream Last Line: The inflection of dear voices that have become silent MY FAMILIAR DREAM First Line: Often I dream this poignant fantasy Last Line: The music of dear voices heard no more MYSTCIAL EVENING TWILIGHT Poem Text First Line: Memory, with the twilight's dusky light Last Line: Memory, with the twilight's dusky light Subject(s): Evening; Memory; Sunset; Twilight MYSTICAL DIALOGUE First Line: My god said: 'love me, son! Dost thou not see' Subject(s): Love MYSTICAL EVENING TWILIGHT Poem Text First Line: Memory, with the twilight's dusky light MYSTICAL EVENING TWILIGHT First Line: Memory, with the twilight's dusky light Last Line: Memory, with the twilight's dusky light NEVERMORE Poem Text First Line: Memory, what wilt thou with me? Autumn gales Last Line: "the first-heard ""yes"" from the belovéd lips." Subject(s): Evening; Memory NEVERMORE First Line: Memory, memory, what do you want from me? Last Line: What a charming murmur there rustling slips %the first yes that issues from beloved lips NEVERMORE First Line: Memory, memory, what do you want from me? Last Line: The first yes that issued from those beloved lips NEVERMORE First Line: Come, my poor heart, come, old friend true and tried Last Line: #name? NIGHT SCENE First Line: Night, rain, spires, empty-windowed turrets, jutting Last Line: Glistening athwart the javelins of the rain NIGHT SCENE First Line: Night. Rain. Spires, empty-windowed turrets, jutting Last Line: Glistening athwart the javelins of the rain O HEARKEN THE SO GENTLE PLAINT Poem Text Last Line: O! Hearken the celestial song Subject(s): Singing & Singers; Soul ODE: TO MY LOVERS First Line: My lovers %(simple chaps) Last Line: And make a feast of shit and cum, of ass and thighs! Subject(s): Homosexuality OH SAD, SAD WAS MY SOUL Poem Text Last Line: We were exiled far and long ago? Subject(s): Grief; Love – Complaints ON A COPY OF LES FLEURS DU MAL First Line: These poems, strange, are, to my mind Last Line: If he could speak the angels' tongue ON THE BALCONY Poem Text First Line: Both watched the uncertain swallows sudden farewell Last Line: The tumbled, odorous bed, wide-opening in the gloom. Subject(s): Flowers; Love; Romance; Roses ON THE GRASS First Line: Marquis, your wig is crooked.' 'mine?' Last Line: Good evening, moon!...' 'fa, mi, re, do...' OTHER First Line: The jail yard: marigolds, like woes Last Line: In peace a-plenty, %relishing our %dolce far niente PANTOMIME First Line: Pierrot - no swain clitander, he Last Line: And voices whispering in her heart PARISIAN SKETCH First Line: Lacquering moon PARSIFAL First Line: Parsifal has vanquished the maidens, their sweet chatter and amusing Last Line: Glory and symbol, in which the real blood shines--and, oh those boys' %voices singing in the dome! PARSIFAL First Line: Parsifal has overcome the lemans Last Line: The chalice in which glows the real blood, %-oh, all that children's singing from the minister! PAYSAGE EN LINCOLNSHIRE First Line: L'echelonnement des haies PEACEFUL EYES MY ONLY WEALTH Poem Text Subject(s): Orphans; Foundlings PENNY PICTURES First Line: From all sweet sorrows I put together my magic! Paul, with red Last Line: Credit is in charge of ticket sales. Step right up! PENSIONNAIRES Poem Text First Line: The one was fifteen years old, the other sixteen Last Line: And, blushing, smiled innocently Subject(s): Gays & Lesbians PENSIONNAIRES First Line: The one was fifteen years old, the other sixteen Last Line: And blushingly, smiled innocently Subject(s): Homosexuality PIANO THAT A FRAIL HAND KISSES GLEAMS Last Line: That towards the slightly opened window will die %above the little garden by and by? PIERROT First Line: No more the old song's moonlight dreamer he Last Line: That sharp-nosed near-death mask, so ghastly, grim PROLOGUE First Line: Dim-lit, those visions born of night Last Line: Unto the heavens' blue-arching span PUPPETS First Line: Polichinelle and his colleague Last Line: The longings of a heart distressed PUPPETS First Line: Scaramouche and pulchinella Last Line: Singing dull songs with loud distress QUATRAIN First Line: With neither joy nor penitence Last Line: Comes from a grinning skeleton RECOLLECTION OF MANCHESTER First Line: A glimpse of salford, just a corner, was Last Line: My utter reverence for shakekspeare's verse REFLECTIONS IN THE FOGBOUND RIVULET Last Line: Your drowned hopes, wailful, weep their grief! RESIGNATION First Line: Tout enfant, j'allais revant ko-hinnor RESIGNATION First Line: Sleep, darksome, deep SAILING First Line: The evening star flickers and glints Last Line: Over the water, dreaming, dark SAINT SET IN HER STAINED-GLASS GLOW Last Line: That carolingian name she bears SEASCAPE First Line: The moon, in mourning, eyes Last Line: Roars with its mighty thunder SEASHELLS First Line: Each seashell in the walls where we Last Line: But one there was that fired my blood SENTIMENAL COLLOQUY Poem Text 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 SENTIMENAL COLLOQUY First Line: In the old, lonely park all white with frost Subject(s): Love SENTIMENTAL COLLOQUY First Line: In the ancient park, solitary and vast Last Line: And only the night heard the words they said SENTIMENTAL COLLOQUY First Line: In the deserted old park now frozen fast Last Line: In the wild oatsthus their steps they led, %and night alone heard the words they said SENTIMENTAL CONVERSATION First Line: In a lonely, frozen park Subject(s): Supernatural SENTIMENTAL STROLL First Line: The sunset darted low its splendorous rays Last Line: Great lilies, lying tranquil, on the pond SHEPHERD'S HOUR First Line: The rising moon shines reddish through the mist Last Line: White, venus sallies forth, and it is night SKELETON First Line: Two boisterous ruffians, a besotted pair Last Line: Know with a gesture that they're free to go! SKY IS, ABOVE THE ROOF Last Line: Tell, what have you done, you there, %with your youthful years? SO SAD MY HEART, SO SAD IT WAS Last Line: She lets us flee...But not forget.' SONG FOR THE LADIES First Line: They tell me you're a blonde; they say Last Line: Them on my breast), and everywhere SONG OF AUTUMN Poem Text First Line: When a sighing begins Last Line: A dead leaf. Variant Title(s): Chansons D'automne Subject(s): Death; Grief; Memory; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness SONNET Poem Text First Line: And I have seen again the marvellous child - it seemed Subject(s): Prayer; Sin; Sonnet (as Literary Form) SONNET First Line: And I have seen again the marvellous child - it seemed Last Line: Beautiful little hands, hands that will close our eyes Subject(s): Mourning SONNET BOITEUX First Line: Ah! Vraiment c'est triste, ah! Vraiment ca finit trop mal SONNET TO WEEP OVER First Line: Magistrate more than insolent Last Line: Your weight, your gait...Or how I hate you! SPLEEN Poem Text First Line: Around were all the roses red Last Line: Of everything alas! Save thee. SPLEEN First Line: The roses were the reddest red Last Line: To everything, alas, but you SPRING Poem Text First Line: Tender, the young auburn woman Last Line: And the wild sheets. O to your bed! Subject(s): Gays & Lesbians SPRING First Line: Tender, the young auburn woman Last Line: The beautiful pillow that slips so %and the wild sheets. O to your bed! Subject(s): Homosexuality SPRING First Line: The woman, young, red-haired of head Last Line: As dawn's rays the blue heavens do.' STREETS Poem Text First Line: Let us dance! Last Line: Let us dance! STREETS First Line: Let's dance the jig! %I loved above all her pretty eyes Last Line: And that's the best of my possessions. %let's dance the jig! STREETS: 1 First Line: Let's dance a jig! %I loved above all else her eyes Last Line: Of all my wealth, most precious these. %let's dance a jig! STREETS: 2 First Line: Strange river, sprung from who knows where! Last Line: The black and yellow bungalows STROLLING First Line: The sky so pale, the trees so spindly, bare Last Line: Purse in a coy and all-forgiving pout SUMMER First Line: And this, the maiden's hushed reply Last Line: Blood-red, blows on the slow night air.' SUNSET First Line: A feeble blade SUNSETS First Line: Dim-dawning glow %of breaking morn Last Line: Sunsets a-stroll %astride the sea SUR L'HERBE Poem Text First Line: The abbe rambles.' - 'you, marquis' Last Line: "do, mi.""—""the moon!—hey, how d'ye do?" Subject(s): Courtship; Kisses TANTALIZED First Line: The prison wing that I am quartered in Last Line: O trains that can go rolling, rolling free! TEARS FALL IN MY HEART Poem Text Last Line: My heart is so full if pain Subject(s): Grief; Tears; Love – Absence Of; Pain; Sorrow; Sadness TEARS FALL IN MY HEART Last Line: My heart has such pain! Subject(s): Grief TEARS FALL IN MY HEART Last Line: Why my grief is so great Subject(s): Grief THAT FIRM-FLESHED BELLY THAT HAS NEVER BORNE Last Line: #name? THE ART OF POETRY; TO CHARLES MORICE Poem Text First Line: Music must be paramount Last Line: And everything else is mere literature. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets THE GOODLY SONG Poem Text First Line: Sad and lost I walked where wide Last Line: Us to each other in delight. Subject(s): Hope; Love; Singing & Singers; Voices; Optimism THE NIGHTINGALE Poem Text First Line: Like a clamorous flock of startled birds Last Line: The quivering tree and the weeping bird. Subject(s): Birds; Nightingales THE SHPEHERD'S HOUR Poem Text First Line: The moon is red through horizon's fog Last Line: Pale, venus appears, and it is night. Subject(s): Night; Bedtime THE SKY ABOVE THE ROOFING LIES Poem Text Last Line: With thy lost years? Subject(s): Time; Mortality; God; Sky THE SKY IS UP ABOVE THE ROOF THE SONG OF THE INGENUES Poem Text First Line: We are the ingenues Last Line: Of libertines. Subject(s): Hearts; Ingenuity; Singing & Singers THE SPELL Poem Text First Line: The keyboard, over which two slim hands float Last Line: A little open on the garden small? Subject(s): Music & Musicians THE WHITE MOON Poem Text Last Line: It is the exquisite hour Subject(s): Moon; Time; Dreams THERE First Line: Angels! Seul coin luisant dans ce londres du soir THOUSANDS AND THREE First Line: My lovers do not belong to the two rich classes Last Line: Passions of the present, future that grows and unites %cherished ones without number and never enoug Subject(s): Homosexuality THREE YEARS AFTER First Line: I pushed the gate that swung to silently Subject(s): Gardens And Gardening TIME FOR LOVERS First Line: The moon upon the hazy horizon is red Last Line: And the zenith fills with muted lights. %white, venus emerges, and it is night TO HORATIO First Line: My friend, it's no more feathers and guitars Last Line: For once tomorrow cannot be put off! TRUE, WE DON'T KNOW WHEN TO QUIT Last Line: Let's love simply - no designs - %wench mine! TURN, TURN, GOOD WOODEN HORSES, TURN A HUNDRED TIMES... Last Line: The church rings a sad knell. %turn to the joyous sound of the drums! UTTERLY SMALL, UTTERLY LOVELY VAST, BLACK LETHARGY Last Line: A hand rocks me to sleep: %no sound, no sound! VERSES TO BE SLANDERED First Line: This evening I bent over you in your sleep. Your whole body slept Last Line: Laugh. Quick, wake up! Tell me, is the soul immortal? WALCOURT First Line: Bricks, tiles...How sweet %such cozy cover Last Line: What pleasures rare, %my wandering jews! WHAT HAVE YOU DONE? Poem Text First Line: The sky is up above the roof Last Line: The youth away Subject(s): Aging; Life; Mourning; Youth; Bereavement WHEN WE GO - IF I SEE HER YET AGAIN Last Line: God will be there to work the waking WHITE MOON SHINES IN THE WOODS; FROM EACH BOUGH... Last Line: Firmament in which the star glimmers--it is the exquisite hour WIND IN THE WOOD First Line: It is the sigh of languid bliss Subject(s): Love WIND WHIPS THROUGH THE BUSHES, GREEN Last Line: My soul, trust in his glorydom! WINTER DREAM First Line: During winter we will ride in a little red carriage Last Line: What a marvelous ride! WITH MUTED STRINGS First Line: Calm in the twilight that %the high branches make above Last Line: Falls from the black oaks, voice fo our hopelessness, %the nightingale will sing WOMAN AND CAT Poem Text First Line: They were just playing, lady and cat Last Line: Four dazzling points of phosphor gleamed Subject(s): Animals; Cats; Crime & Criminals; Murder; Nails (body) WOMAN AND CAT First Line: They were just playing, lady and cat Last Line: Four dazzling points of phosphor gleamed Subject(s): Animals; Cats WOMAN AND CAT First Line: It was a joy to watch as she Last Line: Gleaming four orbs of phosphorescence WOMEN'S LOVELINESS Poem Text First Line: Women's loveliness, their frailty, and those pale hands Last Line: And what in truth, remains, when death has come our way? Subject(s): Women; Beauty; Love WOMEN'S LOVELINESS First Line: Woman's loveliness, their frailty, and those pale hands WOMEN'S LOVELINESS First Line: Women's loveliness, their frailty, and those pale hands Last Line: And what, in truth, remains, when death has come our way Subject(s): Love YES, DESPITE YOUR CRUEL EXCESS Last Line: That false air I relish, quite, %love me for my artlessness YOU BELIEVE IN SUPERSTITIONS Last Line: That, by everything, I vow %that you are all I live for now YOU'VE OFTEN BEEN UNKIND Last Line: Bound to love me a bit, %the way we love a toy YOUNG FOOLS First Line: High-heels were struggling with a full-length dress Last Line: That ever since our stunned soul has been trembling YOUNGLINGS Poem Text First Line: High heels in a struggle with a long skirt Last Line: That our souls forever hold their eager qualms. Subject(s): Youth YOUR VOICE WAS DEEP AND LOW Last Line: Appears asleep, but lies %in quiet contemplation |
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