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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Keyword: arthur rimbaud Matches Found: 438 A SEASON IN HELL, SELECTION, by ARTHUR RIMBAUD Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Once, long ago - if I remember rightly - my life was a sumptuous feast Last Line: These sparse hideous pages from my notebook of the damned. Subject(s): Hell A SEASON IN HELL: ILL WILL; MAUVAIS SANG, by ARTHUR RIMBAUD Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I await god greedily. Now that I am accursed, I detest my country Last Line: Hunger, thirst, shouts, dance, dance, dance, dance! Subject(s): Desire A SEASON IN HELL: MORNING, by ARTHUR RIMBAUD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Yet now I think I have finished the tale of my inferno Last Line: The song of the skies, the march of peoples! Slaves, let us not curse life. Subject(s): Christmas; Nativity, The A SEASON IN HELL: THE ALCHEMY OF WORDS, by ARTHUR RIMBAUD Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Listen. The tale of one of my follies Last Line: That is over. Now I know how to greet beauty. Subject(s): Dreams; Language; Nightmares; Words; Vocabulary AFTER THE FLOOD, by ARTHUR RIMBAUD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As soon as the thought of the flood had subsided Last Line: And we do not AFTER THE FLOOD, by ARTHUR RIMBAUD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As soon as the idea of the flood was assuaged AFTER THE FLOOD, by ARTHUR RIMBAUD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As soon as the idea of the flood abated Subject(s): Winter ANCIENT ANIMALS SULLIED THEMSELVES..., by ARTHUR RIMBAUD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: In woods teeming with foolish children AND THE NEW YEAR HAD ALREADY BEGUN..., by ARTHUR RIMBAUD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: And to her maternal lips joins his lips divine ANGRY CAESAR, by ARTHUR RIMBAUD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This man, pale, walks the flowering lawns Last Line: Like evenings at st. Cloud, a thin blue haze ANGUISH, by ARTHUR RIMBAUD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Can she make me forgive my constantly defeated ambitions Last Line: By torments that laugh, their silence a terrible howl ANIMALS ONCE SPEWED SEMEN AS THEY RAN, by ARTHUR RIMBAUD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: In those woods where sex was once a children's game ANTIQUE, by ARTHUR RIMBAUD Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Graceful son of pan. About your forehead, crowned with flowerets and berries Last Line: Thigh, and that left leg. ANTIQUE, by ARTHUR RIMBAUD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Graceful son of pan Last Line: And this leg %the left APOLLONIOUS THE GREEK SPEAKS OF MARCUS CICERO, by ARTHUR RIMBAUD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You have heard, my disciples, cicero's speech is which he seemed convincingly Last Line: It gives me to hear you have ARTHUR RIMBAUD'S REJECTION LETTER, by ERIK REECE Poem Source First Line: The reply, printed for ASLEEP IN THE VALLEY, by ARTHUR RIMBAUD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A small green valley where a slow stream runs Last Line: At peace. In his side there are two red holes AT THE CABARET-VERT, FIVE P.M., by ARTHUR RIMBAUD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Eight days of shredding my boots Last Line: That glowed gold with late-day light AT THE FEET OF DARK WALLS..., by ARTHUR RIMBAUD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: At the feet of dark walls, beating skinny dogs AT THE GREEN CABARET, by ARTHUR RIMBAUD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A week of walking had torn my boots to shreds Last Line: A ray of fading sunlight turned to gold AT THE GREEN CABARET, by ARTHUR RIMBAUD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: For eight days I wore out my shoe leather Last Line: Gold in a ray of sunlight, falling late BAD BLOOD, by ARTHUR RIMBAUD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: From my ancestors the gauls I have pale blue eyes Last Line: That would be the french way, the path of honor BAD LITTLE ANGEL, by ARTHUR RIMBAUD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Whitewashed doors and roofs of slate Last Line: Like dirty blood in dirty drains BALLY, by ARTHUR RIMBAUD Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Very solid rascals. Several have exploited your worlds Last Line: I alone hold the key to this savage ballyhoo.* Subject(s): Disdain; Scorn BARBARIAN, by ARTHUR RIMBAUD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Long after days and seasons pass Last Line: And frozen caves of ice %and a banner BARBARIAN, by ARTHUR RIMBAUD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Long after the days and the seasons, and the creatures and the countries Last Line: The arctic caverns. %the banner Subject(s): Holidays; New Year BATTLE SONG OF PARIS, by ARTHUR RIMBAUD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Spring is here, plain as day Last Line: Red rustlings that won't be leaves! BEING BEAUTEOUS, by ARTHUR RIMBAUD Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Standing against the snow, a tall being of beauty Last Line: Cannon I must fall on, in the battle of trees and light air! BEING BEAUTEOUS, by ARTHUR RIMBAUD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Against a fall of snow, a being beautiful, and very tall Last Line: In a swirling of trees and soft air BEWILDERED ONES, by ARTHUR RIMBAUD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Black in the snow and in the haze Last Line: --and their white swaddling clothes flutter in %the winter wind... BL(IS)S, by ARTHUR RIMBAUD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: So weak I no longer thought society could bear my Last Line: Hail beauty BLACK CURRANT RIVER, by ARTHUR RIMBAUD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The black currant river rolls along unknown %in valleys narrow and strange Last Line: Peasant who clinks glasses with his old stump flee %away from here BLACKSMITH, by ARTHUR RIMBAUD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: One hand on a giant hammer, frightening Last Line: And crowned him with the cap of revolution BLACKSMITH, by ARTHUR RIMBAUD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: One arm wields a giant hammer, enormous Last Line: His red bonner onto the king's head! BLANKETS OF BLOOD..., by ARTHUR RIMBAUD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: But no matter: I'm here; I'm still here BOHEMIAN LIFE, by ARTHUR RIMBAUD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Off I went, my fists in my pockets with split open seams Last Line: And plucked,like lyres, the laces of my %wounded shoes, one foot at my heart's side BOTTOM, by ARTHUR RIMBAUD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The thorns of reality being too sharp for my noble character Last Line: Came leaping at my breast BOUTS-RIMES (POEM IN SET RHYMES), by ARTHUR RIMBAUD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: ( ) leviticus Last Line: ( ) of bronze BOY WHO PICKED THE BULLETS UP, DESTINY'S CHILD, by ARTHUR RIMBAUD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Poor young man, I hear he has a certain habit!' BRIDGES, by ARTHUR RIMBAUD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Crystal gray skies Last Line: Obliterates this scene BRILLIANT VICTORY OF SAAREBRUCK, by ARTHUR RIMBAUD Poem Source Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the middle, the emperor, an apotheosis Last Line: Heisting his ass, says: emperor or what? BRUNETTE, JUST SIXTEEN..., by ARTHUR RIMBAUD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: For she loved her son of seventeen BRUSH, by ARTHUR RIMBAUD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A humble scrub brush, too coarse Last Line: Where souls of our dead sisters delight BRUSSELS, by ARTHUR RIMBAUD Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Amaranthine flower beds stretching to / jupiter's agreeable palace Last Line: I know you and gaze at you in wonder. BRUSSELS, by ARTHUR RIMBAUD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Flower beds of amaranths up to Last Line: And I who know you quietly admire BRUSSELS, by ARTHUR RIMBAUD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: July. Regent's boulevard. Beds of amaranthus as far as jupiter's Last Line: Theater, the meeting place of a thousand scenes, I know you and admire %you without speaking BUT..., by ARTHUR RIMBAUD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Of a choler( ) BY THE BANDSTAND, by ARTHUR RIMBAUD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: On railroad square, laid out in little spots of lawn Last Line: And my brutal wishes bite their little lips CAESAR'S RAGE, by ARTHUR RIMBAUD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A pale man in black, cigar in moue Last Line: From his cigar as it used to on nights at st. Cloud CHILD WHO GATHERED BULLETS..., by ARTHUR RIMBAUD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Clearly, the poor boy's in the grip of the habit' CHILDHOOD, by ARTHUR RIMBAUD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: An idol %black eyes, yellow hair Last Line: Gleam white in the corner of the vault? CITIES, by ARTHUR RIMBAUD Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What cities these! What a people, for whom have been built up Last Line: Come my slumbers and my least movements? CITIES, by ARTHUR RIMBAUD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: These are cities! And this is the people for whom these alleghenys and lebanons Last Line: For their family-trees by rays of artifical light CITIES I, by ARTHUR RIMBAUD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This is what cities are like Last Line: Moving the least of my movements CITIES II, by ARTHUR RIMBAUD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The official acropolis outdoes Last Line: Beneath a light we have created CITY, by ARTHUR RIMBAUD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I am a temporary and not at all discontented citizen Last Line: A hopeless love and a pretty crime wailing in the mud of the road CLEVER GIRL, by ARTHUR RIMBAUD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the brown dining room, brimming Last Line: Said softly, 'my cheek is so cold. Here, feel' COMEDY OF THIRST, by ARTHUR RIMBAUD Poem Source Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We are your grandparents, %the ones of eminence! Last Line: To die in these humid violets %whose auroras fill these forests? COMEDY OF THIRST: 1. FOREBEARS, by ARTHUR RIMBAUD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We are your grandparents, %your elders Last Line: Myself: drink the urns dry COMEDY OF THIRST: 2. SOUL, by ARTHUR RIMBAUD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Eternal water-nymphs Last Line: That consumes and despoils COMEDY OF THIRST: 3. FRIENDS, by ARTHUR RIMBAUD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Come: wines beat the beaches Last Line: Beneath unbearable scum, %near drifting logs COMEDY OF THIRST: 4. A PAUPER DREAMS, by ARTHUR RIMBAUD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Perhaps a night awaits me Last Line: Open its doors to me again COMEDY OF THIRST: 5 .CONCLUSION, by ARTHUR RIMBAUD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Pigeons tremble in the prairie Last Line: That dawn dumps into the woods? COMEDY OF THIRST: I. FOREFATHERS, by ARTHUR RIMBAUD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We are your father's fathers Last Line: Ah! If I could empty all the urns COMEDY OF THIRST: II. THE SPIRIT, by ARTHUR RIMBAUD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Eternal water sprites Last Line: That feeds upon my soul COMEDY OF THIRST: III. FRIENDS, by ARTHUR RIMBAUD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Come, all wines go down to the sea Last Line: Can never be opened again COMEDY OF THIRST: IV. THE POOR MAN DREAMS, by ARTHUR RIMBAUD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I have an evening unspent Last Line: Can never e opened again COMEDY OF THIRST: V. CONCLUSION, by ARTHUR RIMBAUD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The pigeons trembling in the open field Last Line: Daylight leaves in heaps about the wood CONFESSIONS OF AN IDIOT OLD MAN, by ARTHUR RIMBAUD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Bless me father - %young, at our country fairs Last Line: That purple stole. %oh, childhood! %let's jack each other off CREDO IN UNAM, by ARTHUR RIMBAUD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The sun, the source of tenderness and life Last Line: The gods stand watching man and the unending world CREDO IN UNAM, by ARTHUR RIMBAUD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Free and proud, man raised his head! Last Line: -it is redemption! It is love! It is love! CROWS, by ARTHUR RIMBAUD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lord, when the open field is cold Last Line: That every victory is vain CROWS, by ARTHUR RIMBAUD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When your meadows lie cold, o lord Last Line: We can't escape, alas CROWS, by ARTHUR RIMBAUD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lord, when the meadowland is chilled Last Line: In the grass from which one cannot flee, %by defeat without prospects for the future CUSTOMS MEN, by ARTHUR RIMBAUD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Soldiers, sailors, imperial rabble, even pensioners Last Line: Hell for delinquents pressed by his palm! CUSTOMS MEN, by ARTHUR RIMBAUD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The redneck cops, the big fat ones who leer Last Line: God help you, when the customs grabs your ass DAWN, by ARTHUR RIMBAUD Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I have kissed the summer dawn Subject(s): Dawn; Sunrise DAWN, by ARTHUR RIMBAUD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I have kissed the summer dawn Last Line: When I woke, it was noon Subject(s): Dawn DAWN, by ARTHUR RIMBAUD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I embraced the summer dawn Last Line: When I awoke, it was noon Subject(s): Dawn; Dreams DEAD OF NINETY-TWO AND NINETY-THREE, by ARTHUR RIMBAUD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: -as cassagnac and sons invoke you once again! DEFILEMENTS / ARTHUR RIMBAUD, by STEPHEN BERG Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Ancient animals fucked running Last Line: Kneeling sucking on it weeping Subject(s): Erotic Love; Rimbaud, Arthur (1854-1891) DELIRIA II: ALCHEMY OF THE WORD, SELS, by ARTHUR RIMBAUD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: At last my spirit becomes Last Line: Smitten with the borage DELIRIUM, SELS., by ARTHUR RIMBAUD Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Imagination; Vision DEMOCRACY, by ARTHUR RIMBAUD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Toward that intolerable country Last Line: This is the real advance %forward %march DEMOCRACY, by ARTHUR RIMBAUD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The flag goes with the foul landscape, and our jargon muffles the drum Last Line: That's the system. Let's get going Subject(s): Imagination; Vision DEPARTURE, by ARTHUR RIMBAUD Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Enough seen. The vision has been met in all guises Last Line: Departure in new sympathy amid new sounds. DEPARTURE, by ARTHUR RIMBAUD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Everything seen Last Line: Departure in affection, and shining sounds DEPARTURE, by ARTHUR RIMBAUD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Seen enough: the vision has been met with in every air Last Line: Departure in new affection and new noise Subject(s): Imagination; Vision DESERTS OF LOVE, by ARTHUR RIMBAUD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This time it is the woman whom I saw in the city Last Line: Then, o despair! The wall became dimly the shadow of trees, and I was plunged in the amorous sadness Subject(s): Imagination; Vision DEVOTION, by ARTHUR RIMBAUD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: To sister louise vanaen voringhem: her blue habit flapping Last Line: But that's all over DOES SHE DANCE, by ARTHUR RIMBAUD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Does she dance? In the first blue hours Last Line: To feast at night upon the pure sea DOUBTLESS I PREFER..., by ARTHUR RIMBAUD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Black bottles cough, but never get them drunk DREAM IN WINTERTIME, by ARTHUR RIMBAUD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: All winter we'll wander in a red wagon Last Line: If it takes all week DRUCKEN BOAT, by ARTHUR RIMBAUD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I felt nae mair the haalyers airtin me Last Line: Or conter the prood pennants o' the fleets %or row aneth theprison-hulks' gash een Subject(s): Scottish Translations DRUNK BOAT, by ARTHUR RIMBAUD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As I went gliding down rivers that looked on Last Line: Swim under the prison-ships' horrible stares DRUNKEN BOAT, by ARTHUR RIMBAUD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As down the wide indifferent streams I went DRUNKEN BOAT, by ARTHUR RIMBAUD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Downstream on impassive rivers suddnely Last Line: Nor breast the arrogant oriflammes and banners, %nor swim beneath the leer of the pontoons DRUNKEN BOAT, by ARTHUR RIMBAUD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I felt my guides no longer carried me Last Line: Or swim beneath the guns of prison ships DRUNKEN BOAT, by ARTHUR RIMBAUD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I drifted on a river I could not control Last Line: Nor endure the slave ship's stinking hold DRUNKEN BOAT, by ARTHUR RIMBAUD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As I came down the impassable rivers Last Line: Nor cross the pride of pennants and of flags, %nor swim pass prison hulks' hateful eyes! Subject(s): Imagination; Vision DRUNKEN BOAT, by ARTHUR RIMBAUD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As I was going down impassive rivers, I suddenly felt I was no Last Line: Flames of battleships or swim under the horrible eyes of prison ships DRUNKEN BOAT, by ARTHUR RIMBAUD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As I was sailing down impassive rivers Last Line: Or sail across the pride of flags and pennants, %or pull past the horrible eyes of prison ships DRUNKEN BOAT, by ARTHUR RIMBAUD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As I proceeded down along impassive rivers Last Line: Nor swim beneath the convict-hulks' appalling eyes! DRUNKEN BOAT, by ARTHUR RIMBAUD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: No longer, borne down insensible rivers Last Line: I'll ply not again by the horrible eye of the pontons DRUNKEN BOAT, by ARTHUR RIMBAUD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As I went gliding down rivers that looked on Last Line: Swim under the prison ships' horrible stares DRUNKEN BOAT, by ARTHUR RIMBAUD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: While swept downstream on indifferent rivers Last Line: Nor swim beneath the killing stare of prison ships DRUNKEN BOAT, SELS., by ARTHUR RIMBAUD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Hearing the thunder of the intransitive weirs Last Line: As frail and pitiful as a moth in spring DRUNKEN MORNING, by ARTHUR RIMBAUD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, my beautiful! Oh, my good! Last Line: For this is the assassins' hour DRUNKS, by ARTHUR RIMBAUD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Mad %quean Last Line: Thigh! %whee! EIGHTEEN-SEVENTY, SELS., by ARTHUR RIMBAUD Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Franco-prussian War (1870-1871); Travel ENDS OF THE EARTH, by ARTHUR RIMBAUD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I traveled a bit. I went north: I will shut my brain off Last Line: Me with the cock's crow ERRANT MANUSCRIPT PHRASES, by ARTHUR RIMBAUD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Take heed, o absent life of mine! ETERNITY, by ARTHUR RIMBAUD Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I have recovered it / what? Eternity Last Line: Matched with the sun. ETERNITY, by ARTHUR RIMBAUD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It is found and won %again. What?--eternity Last Line: Again. What?--eternity. %it is the sea %gone off with the sun ETERNITY, by ARTHUR RIMBAUD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: And out of joy, I became a fabulous opera EVENING PRAYER, by ARTHUR RIMBAUD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I spend my life sitting, like an angel in a barber's chair Last Line: That consecrates a patch of flowering fern EVENING PRAYER, by ARTHUR RIMBAUD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I lived seated, like an angel in a barber's hands Last Line: I piss toward the brown skies, to high and distant scopes, %with the assent of the large heliotropes EVENING PRAYER, by ARTHUR RIMBAUD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I live my life sitting, like an angel in a barber's chair Last Line: Heliotropes blessing me below EVENINGS, by ARTHUR RIMBAUD Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It is rest full of light, neither fever nor languor, on the bed or on the road Last Line: -and the dream breaks afresh. Subject(s): Evening; Sunset; Twilight EVIL, by ARTHUR RIMBAUD Poem Source Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: While the red-stained mouths of machine guns ring Last Line: And their last small coin into his coffer falls EVIL, by ARTHUR RIMBAUD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Whilst the red spittle of the grape-shot sings Subject(s): War EVIL, by ARTHUR RIMBAUD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When the gobs spat by flaming cannon Last Line: And give him a big penny tied in a kerchief EVIL, by ARTHUR RIMBAUD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When the cannon's red spittle Last Line: Offering him pennies from their pockets EXILE, by ARTHUR RIMBAUD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My dear conneau Last Line: Against a wind children call bari-barou! FAIRY, by ARTHUR RIMBAUD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: For helen %the ornamental saps conspired in the virgin dark Last Line: Or the pleasures of the certain hour, the unique place FALLEN CHERUB, by ARTHUR RIMBAUD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Bluish roofs and white doors Last Line: Like a delicate bog of dirty blood FALSE CONVERSION, by ARTHUR RIMBAUD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Unhappy day! I swallowed a great gulp of poison. The rage of despair Last Line: Go mad. O mary, holy virgin false feeling, false prayer FAREWELL, by ARTHUR RIMBAUD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Autumn already! - but why regret the everlasing sun Last Line: Be able now to possess the truth within one body and one soul FAREWELL, by ARTHUR RIMBAUD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Autumn already! - but why regret an eternal sun Last Line: And I shall be free to possess truth in one soul and one body Subject(s): Imagination; Vision FAUN'S HEAD, by ARTHUR RIMBAUD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Among the leaves, green curtain stained with gold Last Line: The golden kiss of the woods is left in peace FAUN'S HEAD, by ARTHUR RIMBAUD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the bower, green jewel box flecked with gold Last Line: And by a bullfinch frightened one sees %the golden kiss of the woods, musing silently FAUN'S HEAD, by ARTHUR RIMBAUD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Within the leaves, this gilded bower Last Line: By a bullfinch, resolves once again to rest FEAST OF LOVE, by ARTHUR RIMBAUD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In dreams, babbit Last Line: Which, tricked, %reels FEELING, by ARTHUR RIMBAUD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: On blue summer evenings, I'll go on the paths Last Line: And I'll go far, quite far, like a bohemian, %through nature,--as happy as if with a woman FEELINGS, by ARTHUR RIMBAUD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: On a blue summer night I will go through the fields Last Line: Throughout nature -- happy as if I had a girl FETE GALANTE, by ARTHUR RIMBAUD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Scapin from habit Last Line: And by and by %it sits up FIRST COMMUNION, by ARTHUR RIMBAUD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Be honest, these village churches are a joke Last Line: To the earth, in shame, in migraine, in agony FIRST COMMUNIONS, by ARTHUR RIMBAUD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They're ugly, those churches in country towns Last Line: Or else thrown down upon their backs, in pain FIRST DELIRIUM: THE FOOLISH VIRGIN THE INFERNAL BRIDEGROOM, by ARTHUR RIMBAUD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Let us hear the confession of an old friend in hell Last Line: One hell of a household FIRST EVENING, by ARTHUR RIMBAUD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Her clothes were almost off Last Line: To see what it could see FIRST NIGHT, by ARTHUR RIMBAUD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She was almost undressed Last Line: Against the panes, so near, so near FIRST TWILIGHT / ARTHUR RIMBAUD, by STEPHEN BERG Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Huge indiscrete cunning trees Last Line: She wore almost nothing Subject(s): Erotic Love; Rimbaud, Arthur (1854-1891) FLOWERBEDS OF AMARANTHS..., by ARTHUR RIMBAUD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: I know you, and stare at you in silence FLOWERS, by ARTHUR RIMBAUD Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: From a golden stadium Last Line: Sturdy young roses to the marble terraces. FLOWERS, by ARTHUR RIMBAUD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: On a slope of gold Last Line: Invite a throng of roses, young and strong FOR ARTHUR RIMBAUD, by PAUL VERLAINE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Human, an angel, and a demon - or Last Line: White feet, in triumph, poised on envy's head FOUR SEASONS, by ARTHUR RIMBAUD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O the seasons and chateaux Last Line: O seasons, o chateaux FRAGMENTS FROM THE BOOK OF JOHN, by ARTHUR RIMBAUD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A few people in samaria had shown their faith in him. Last Line: Witched him cross the gallery with a singularly confident step and disappear into the city FRENZIED BOAT, by ARTHUR RIMBAUD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As I sailed on, down the impassive rivers Last Line: Nor swim beneath the frightful eyes of hulks FROM BAD BLOOD, SELS, by ARTHUR RIMBAUD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Yes it's one of my vices, which stops and which walks with me Last Line: Oh that, I would lead a french life, and I would follow the path of %honor FROM EIGHTEEN-SEVENTY, by ARTHUR RIMBAUD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the centre of the poster, napoleon Subject(s): War FROZEN IN FEAR, by ARTHUR RIMBAUD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In snow and fog %against a basement grate aglow Last Line: And their underwear flutters %in the winter wind GENIE, by ARTHUR RIMBAUD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He is love and the present because he has opened our house Last Line: His breathing, his body, the light of his day GENIE, by ARTHUR RIMBAUD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He is affection and the present since he has made the house open Last Line: To follow his views, his breaths, his body, his day Subject(s): Imagination; Vision GIRLS LOOKING FOR LICE, by ARTHUR RIMBAUD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When the child's forehead, pinched and tortured red Last Line: He feels, as fast ro slow caresses come, %rising and falling, a desire to cry Subject(s): Love GOLDEN AGE, by ARTHUR RIMBAUD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: One of the voices %always angelically Last Line: Sisters! Voices not public at all! %encircle me %with humbleglory...Etc... GOLDEN AGE, by ARTHUR RIMBAUD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In this worldly laws it was my eternal life, unwritten, unsung Last Line: The terror came! I dreamt everywhere GOOD MORNING THOUGHTS, by ARTHUR RIMBAUD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: At four in the morning, in summer Last Line: For swimming in the noontime sea GROCERS' GRIPES, by ARTHUR RIMBAUD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Let him enter the store, when the moon reflects Last Line: Let him grab the boxes of endive while we watch H, by ARTHUR RIMBAUD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The mirror of the movements of hortense Last Line: Seek out hortense H, by ARTHUR RIMBAUD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Every monstrosity violates the atrocious gestures of hortense Last Line: O terrible shudder of novice loves on the bloody ground and in the transparent hydrogen! - find hort Subject(s): Imagination; Vision HANDS OF JEANNE-MARIE, by ARTHUR RIMBAUD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Jeanne-marie has powerful hands Last Line: To drench your hands in blood HANGED MEN DANCE, by ARTHUR RIMBAUD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: On old one-arm, black scaffolding Last Line: The devil's skinny advocates %dead soldiers' bones HANGED MEN, DANCING, by ARTHUR RIMBAUD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Cheerful, one-armed, and black Last Line: Dancing bones of saladins HEAR HOW IN APRIL NEAR, by ARTHUR RIMBAUD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: --sicily, germany, %in this sorrowful haze %grown pallid, justly! HEAR HOW IN APRIL, NEAR THE ACACIAS, THE PEAS' GREEN..., by ARTHUR RIMBAUD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: They remain, sicily, germany, in this sad and wan fog, rightly! HEAR HOW IT BELLOWS, by ARTHUR RIMBAUD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Mist, and justly HEART BENEATH A CASSOCK, by ARTHUR RIMBAUD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O thimothina labinette! Last Line: O sweet jesus! I will keep those socks on my feet until I reach the holy gates of paradise HIDDEN AND WRINKLED LIKE A BUDDING VIOLET, by ARTHUR RIMBAUD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Promised land in sticky femininity HISTGORIC EVENING, by ARTHUR RIMBAUD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: All in some night, let's say, where a simple tourist stands Last Line: Though the entire effect will be scarcely one of legend HUMANITY TIED..., by ARTHUR RIMBAUD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Humanity tied the shoes of progress, that enormous child HUNGER, by ARTHUR RIMBAUD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I thought about the happiness of animals Last Line: From the natural light. It's very %serious HUNGER CELEBRATED, by ARTHUR RIMBAUD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My hunger, anne, anne Last Line: Flee on your mule if you can I SAT IN A THIRD-CLASS RAILWAY CAR; AN OLD PRIEST, by ARTHUR RIMBAUD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Laid open for travelers -- by soissons, near aisne I WAS IN A THIRD-CLASS COMPARTMENT..., by ARTHUR RIMBAUD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: A town in aisne I'D PROBABLY PREFER, COME SPRING, AN OPEN-AIR, by ARTHUR RIMBAUD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: The coughing of black bottles never gets them drunk IDOL, by ARTHUR RIMBAUD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Hidden, wrinkled as a flush violet wedged Last Line: -astarte of the dews enclosed! IMPOSSIBLE, by ARTHUR RIMBAUD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ah! My life as a child, the open road in every weather Last Line: What a crippling misfortune IN APRIL, LISTEN..., by ARTHUR RIMBAUD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Despite pallor, fog and rain: %naturally! IN BACK, THE PORTER LEAPT..., by ARTHUR RIMBAUD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Having swallowed a rose IN THOSE DAYS..., by ARTHUR RIMBAUD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: And with sad eyes, said 'oh great god, may your holy will be done!' INVOCATION TO VENUS, by ARTHUR RIMBAUD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O godly delights, mortal delights Last Line: Nor love: to your work my own aspires IS IT AN ORIENTAL DANCER? IN THE FIRST BLUE HOURS WILL..., by ARTHUR RIMBAUD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Nighttime festivities on the pure sea IS SHE A DANCER...?, by ARTHUR RIMBAUD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: In evening celebrations on a pure dark sea! IT RAINED SOFTLY..., by ARTHUR RIMBAUD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: It rained softly on the city IT WAS SPRING..., by ARTHUR RIMBAUD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: And thrice crowning me with laurel IT WAS SPRINGTIME, by ARTHUR RIMBAUD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It was springtime; a malady immobilized orbilius Last Line: Three times uttering omens, three times crowning me with laurels IT'S ONLY A HUMBLE HANDMADE BRUSH, TOO SMALL, by ARTHUR RIMBAUD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: O moon, where the spirit of our dead sister hides JACK BENNY, by ROBERT LONG Poem Source First Line: In five days it will be arthur rimbaud's Last Line: Before meaning took over JEANNE-MARIE'S HANDS, by ARTHUR RIMBAUD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Jeanne-marie has strong hands Last Line: By making your fingers bleed KIDS IN A DAZE, by ARTHUR RIMBAUD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Black against the fog and snow Last Line: In a wind like ice KINDLY MORNING THOUGHT, by ARTHUR RIMBAUD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: At four in the morning in summer, love's sleep still lasts. In the Last Line: Brandy to the workmen, so thta their strngth will be at peace, until %their swim in the sea at noon LADIES WHO LOOK FOR LICE, by ARTHUR RIMBAUD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When the child's forehead, red and full of pain Last Line: Rising, falling, an endless desire to cry LE MAL, by ARTHUR RIMBAUD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: While the red spewings of the shot Last Line: Proffer him a fat penny tied up in their rag Subject(s): Conscientious Objectors LES CORBEAUX, by ARTHUR RIMBAUD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lord, when a chill is in the meadows Last Line: Those chained by defeat without destiny LETTER TO ERNEST DELAHAYE, OCTOBER 14, 1875, SELS, by ARTHUR RIMBAUD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The barracks at night: 'dream' Last Line: Lefevbre and I are one etc LETTER TO GEORGE IZAMBARD, by ARTHUR RIMBAUD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And so you're a professor again. You've said before that we owe something Last Line: With affection, ar. Rimbaud LETTER TO PAUL DEMENY, by ARTHUR RIMBAUD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I resolved to provide you with an hour of new literature Last Line: Maybe %au revoir, a. Rimbaud LETTER TO PAUL DEMENY, by ARTHUR RIMBAUD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Look-don't be mad-at these notions for some funny doodles: an antidote Last Line: I wish you a good day, which is something LETTER TO THEODORE DE BANVILLE, by ARTHUR RIMBAUD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Monsieur and maitre Last Line: Am I progressing? LETTER TO THEODORE DE BANVILLE, by ARTHUR RIMBAUD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Cher maitre, %these are the months of love; I'm seventeen, the time of hope and Last Line: Help me, maitre: help me find my footing: I am young give me your %hand LICE HUNTERS, by ARTHUR RIMBAUD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When the child's forehead full of red torments Last Line: Feels an urge to cry, welling and dying, endlessly LICE HUNTERS, by ARTHUR RIMBAUD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When the child's brow swollen with scarlet storms Last Line: Well up and die endlessly a desire to weep LICE-HUNTERS, by ARTHUR RIMBAUD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The child, feverish, frowning, only saw red Last Line: And dying of his ceaseless wish to cry LIGHTNING, by ARTHUR RIMBAUD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Human labor! That explosion lights up my abyss from time to time Last Line: Oh! Poor dear soul, eternity then might not be lost LILIES, by ARTHUR RIMBAUD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O lilies! O garden swing! O silver enema bags! Last Line: The heavens descend to vaseline your stems! LILY, by ARTHUR RIMBAUD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O swaying lilies! O silver enemas! Last Line: A heavenly sweetness butters your stamens! LINES, by ARTHUR RIMBAUD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When the world comes down to this one dark wood Last Line: My darlings, my queens LIVES, by ARTHUR RIMBAUD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oh the enormous avenues of the hold land, the terraces of the temple Last Line: Accept no new commitments. LIVES, by ARTHUR RIMBAUD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, the enormous avenues of the holy land - the terraces of the temple Last Line: And can do nothing for you LIVES, by ARTHUR RIMBAUD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O the enormous avenues of the holy land, the temple terraces! Last Line: That is not even to be thought of any longer. %I am relly from beyond the tomb, and no messages Subject(s): Imagination; Vision LONG AGO..., by ARTHUR RIMBAUD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: To overflowing with fruits and fragrant flowers LOUSE-CATCHERS, by ARTHUR RIMBAUD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When the child's brow, with torment flushing red Subject(s): Lice LOVELY THOUGHTS FOR MORNING, by ARTHUR RIMBAUD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: At four in the morning, in summertime Last Line: And take their bath at noonday, in the sea MARINE, by ARTHUR RIMBAUD Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The chariots of silver and copper Last Line: Whose angle is struck by the whirlwinds of light. Subject(s): Sea; Ocean MARTIAL LAW?, by ARTHUR RIMBAUD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The cold conductor on his small platform of tin Last Line: A soiled reveler yelps in the dark empty square MAY BANNERS, by ARTHUR RIMBAUD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the lindens' bright %boughs a sickly mort is dying Last Line: But I don't want to laugh at anything myself; %and may this misfortune by unconfined MEMORIES OF SIMPLE-MINDED OLD MEN / ARTHUR RIMBAUD, by STEPHEN BERG Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: If there's a god, forgive me! Last Line: I reach down: lord, let's both of us jack off! Subject(s): Incest; Rimbaud, Arthur (1854-1891) MEMORY, by ARTHUR RIMBAUD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Clear water; like the salt of childhood's tears Last Line: On the bottom of this rimless eye . . . In what mud! MEMORY, by ARTHUR RIMBAUD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Bright water; like the salr of childhood's tears; the women's white Last Line: Mud at the bottom of this limitless eye of water? MEMORY, by ARTHUR RIMBAUD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Clear water; like the salt of children's tears, the Last Line: Ago! My dingy, always still; and its cable stretched %to the bottom of this shoreless eye of water,- MEMORY, by ARTHUR RIMBAUD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Clear water; like the salt of my childhood tears Last Line: In the depths of that rimless watery eye - from what mud? MEMORY, by ARTHUR RIMBAUD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Clear water; like salt from childhood's tears Last Line: At what muddy bottom of this edgeless watery eye? MEMORY, by ARTHUR RIMBAUD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I found myself ripe for death, and my weakness drew me to the Last Line: Left nearly the whole soul with a (...) on a skiff coursed for dread METAMORPHOSES: 17. APOLLO (ARTHUR RIMBAUD), by WAYNE KOESTENBAUM Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In rio she met my chariot halfway Subject(s): Rimbaud, Arthur (1854-1891) METAMORPHOSES: 17. APOLLO (ARTHUR RIMBAUD), by WAYNE KOESTENBAUM Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In rio she met my chariot halfway Last Line: Boots for sale in the dream gone for farthings Subject(s): Rimbaud, Arthur (1854-1891) METROPOLITAN, by ARTHUR RIMBAUD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: From the indigo straits to the oceans of ossian Last Line: This is your strength MICHAEL AND CHRISTINE, by ARTHUR RIMBAUD Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Blast! If the sun desert these shores Last Line: Michael and christine-and christ-the idyll's end. MICHAEL AND CHRISTINE, by ARTHUR RIMBAUD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Damn, damn! Suppose the sun leaves these shores Last Line: Michael and christine -- and christ! The idyll's end MICHEL AND CHRISTINE, by ARTHUR RIMBAUD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It would stink if the sun left our shores! Last Line: #name? MORNING, by ARTHUR RIMBAUD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Hadn't I once a youth that was lovely, heroic, fabulous Last Line: The song of the heavens, the marching of nations! We are slaves; let us not curse life MORNING, by ARTHUR RIMBAUD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography MORNING, by ARTHUR RIMBAUD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Had I not once a lovely youth, heroic, fabulous, to be written Last Line: The song of the heavens, the marching of peoples! Slaves, let us not curse life Subject(s): Imagination; Vision MORNING OF DRUNKENESS, by ARTHUR RIMBAUD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O my good! O my beautiful! Atrocious fanfare where I never falter Last Line: The time of the assassins is here Subject(s): Imagination; Vision MOVEMENT, by ARTHUR RIMBAUD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A winding movement on the slope beside the rapids of the river Last Line: And sing, upon their watch MY BOHEMIA, by ARTHUR RIMBAUD Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Fists in torn pockets I departed Last Line: One foot against my heart. MY BOHEMIA, by ARTHUR RIMBAUD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Underway, my pockets split only with fist Last Line: Like lyres, one approaching my heart MY BOHEMIA, by ARTHUR RIMBAUD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And so off I went, fists thrust in the torn pockets Last Line: Of my wounded shoes, one foot beneath my heart MY LITTLE LOVELIES, by ARTHUR RIMBAUD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A tearful tincture washes Last Line: Flap your scabby kneecaps apart %my ugly whores MY LITTLE LOVERS / ARTHUR RIMBAUD, by STEPHEN BERG Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Something like human tears Last Line: My dried saliva glistens on your brow Subject(s): Rimbaud, Arthur (1854-1891) MY LITTLE LOVES, by ARTHUR RIMBAUD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A teary tincture slops %over cabbage-green skies Last Line: Knock your knees together %my ugly little dears! MY MOUTH IS OFTEN JOINED AGAINST HIS MOUTH, by ARTHUR RIMBAUD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Feminine canaan in the protruding halves Subject(s): Homosexuality MYSTIQUE, by ARTHUR RIMBAUD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: On the side of the slope, angels revolving Last Line: And turns the abyss beneath us a flowering blue NEWLYWEDS, by ARTHUR RIMBAUD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The chamber is open to the turquoise sky. Ther is no room: trunks Last Line: O holy white ghosts of bethlehem, enchant, rather, their blue window! NEWLYWEDS AT HOME, by ARTHUR RIMBAUD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The bedroom lies open to the turquoise sky Last Line: Enchant instead the sky in their window NIGHT IN HELL, by ARTHUR RIMBAUD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I have just swallowed a terrific mouthful of poison Last Line: And as the damned soul rises, so does the fire NIGHT OF HELL, by ARTHUR RIMBAUD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I have swallowed a monstrous does of poison Last Line: It is the fire that flares up again with its damned Subject(s): Imagination; Vision NINA REPLIES, by ARTHUR RIMBAUD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He: -your breast on my breast Last Line: She: and miss work? NONSENSE, PART 2: 1. DRUNK DRIVER, by ARTHUR RIMBAUD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Dirtbag %drinks Last Line: Bleeds: %moan %groan NONSENSE: 1. PIGLET, by ARTHUR RIMBAUD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Silky %beanie %ivory %weenie Last Line: Rod, at ready, %with %the runs NONSENSE: 2. PARIS, by ARTHUR RIMBAUD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Al. Godillot, gambier Last Line: At home!-be good christians! NOSTALGIA, by ARTHUR RIMBAUD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The sucking river was the child's salt tears Last Line: The lidless eye, still water, filled with mud NOVEL, by ARTHUR RIMBAUD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: No one's serious at seventeen Last Line: When lindens line the promenade O SAISONS, O CHATEAUX, by ARTHUR RIMBAUD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O seasons, o chateaux Last Line: Seasons o, and o chateaux O SEASONS, O CASTLES, WHAT SOUL IS WITHOUT FAULTS?..., by ARTHUR RIMBAUD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Castles!--lines added on the manuscript and crossed out.] O SEASONS, O CHATEAUS, by ARTHUR RIMBAUD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: It blows my words away! %o seasons, o chateaus O SEASONS, O CHATEAUX, by ARTHUR RIMBAUD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: To the quickest death would deliver me! %--o seasons, o chateaux!] O SEASONS, O CHATEAUX, by ARTHUR RIMBAUD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: O seasons, o chateaux OH IF THE BELLS ARE BRONZE, by ARTHUR RIMBAUD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: While cursing desdouets! OLD GUARD, by ARTHUR RIMBAUD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Long live the emperor's peasants Last Line: For blessed is the fruit of thy womb, eugenie OLD WOMAN'S OLD MAN!, by ARTHUR RIMBAUD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: To the peasants of the emperor! Last Line: When eugenie's sky blessed her womb ON SUMMER NIGHTS, BEFORE THE SHINING SHOP WINDOWS, by ARTHUR RIMBAUD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: And that the winter wind spares nothing left outside ON SUMMER NIGHTS..., by ARTHUR RIMBAUD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: #name? ONCE, IF MY MEMORY SERVES ME WELL, by ARTHUR RIMBAUD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Few foul pages from the diary of a damned soul OPHELIA, by ARTHUR RIMBAUD Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: On the calm black wave where the stars sleep Last Line: White ophelia floating, like a great lily. OPHELIA, by ARTHUR RIMBAUD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Where the stars sleep in the calm black stream Last Line: Like some great lily, pale ophelia float OPHELIA, by ARTHUR RIMBAUD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: On still black waters where the stars lie sleeping OPHELIA, by ARTHUR RIMBAUD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: On clam black waters filled with sleeping stars Last Line: He saw white ophelia floating like a lily OPHELIA, by ARTHUR RIMBAUD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Where stars sleep on the calm, black water, pale Last Line: Ophelia, like a lily floating by OPHELIA: 1, by ARTHUR RIMBAUD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: On the calm black water where the stars sleep ORDINARY NOCTURNE, by ARTHUR RIMBAUD Poem Source Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: One breath tears operatic rents in these partitions Last Line: One breath dispels the limits of the hearth ORPHANS' NEW YEAR, by ARTHUR RIMBAUD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The room is full of shadows Last Line: And the words 'to our mother' engraved in gold ORPHANS' NEW YEAR'S GIFTS, by ARTHUR RIMBAUD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The room is full of shadow; you vaguely hear Last Line: Each with three words, graven in gold: %'to our mother!' OUR ASSES AREN'T LIKE THEIRS, by ARTHUR RIMBAUD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Free to whisper glorious sobs OUR ASSHOLES ARE DIFFERENT FROM THEIRS. I USED TO WATCH, by ARTHUR RIMBAUD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: To whisper -- both of us -- in ecstasy PARADE, by ARTHUR RIMBAUD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Strange, well-built young men Last Line: Only I have the key to this savage parade PARIS, by ARTHUR RIMBAUD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Al. Godillot, gambier Last Line: Let's all love one another PARISIAN ORGY, by ARTHUR RIMBAUD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Cowards, behold her now! Pour from your trains Last Line: Stridencies resound in your trumpet of bronze PARISIAN ORGY OR THE REPOPULATION OF PARIS, by ARTHUR RIMBAUD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Cowards, behold! Spill from the stations! Last Line: Sinister flares against a paling blue! PARISIAN WAR CRY, by ARTHUR RIMBAUD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Spring is at hand, for lo Last Line: And, far off, a shivering scarlet clash PATIENCE CELEBRATED: 1. MAY BANNERS, by ARTHUR RIMBAUD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The call of the kill dies feebly Last Line: And all this misfortune is free PATIENCE CELEBRATED: 2. SONG FROM THE TALLEST TOWER, by ARTHUR RIMBAUD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Idle youth, %slave to all Last Line: When hearts will be one PATIENCE CELEBRATED: 3. ETERNITY, by ARTHUR RIMBAUD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Rediscovered. %what?-eternity Last Line: Sea and sun %as one PATIENCE CELEBRATED: 4. GOLDEN AGE, by ARTHUR RIMBAUD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: One of these voices %-speaking about me Last Line: In modest glory. Etc PLUNDERED HEART, by ARTHUR RIMBAUD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My sad heart's slobbering at the poop Last Line: When they've dried up the quids they're chewing %how ot act,o plundered heart? POET AT SEVEN, by ARTHUR RIMBAUD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When the timeless, daily, tedious affair Last Line: Violently breaking into sail POETS SEVEN YEARS OLD, by ARTHUR RIMBAUD Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And the mother, closing the exercise book Last Line: Canvas, with a violent premonition of sails! . . . Subject(s): Children; Poetry And Poets - French; Childhood POETS, AGE SEVEN, by ARTHUR RIMBAUD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And the mother, closing the workbook Last Line: He had a violent vision of setting sail POOR AT CHURCH, by ARTHUR RIMBAUD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Parked on oak benches in church corners Last Line: Dipping their long yellow fingers in the stoups POOR PEOPLE IN CHURCH, by ARTHUR RIMBAUD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Bent on wooden benches, in church corners Last Line: Trailing yellowed fingers in the holy water founts PROMONTORY, by ARTHUR RIMBAUD Poem Source Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The golden dawn and a shivering evening Last Line: The face of promontory palace RECOLLECTION, by ARTHUR RIMBAUD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The year the dear, dear prince imperial was born Last Line: With the holy spaniard, quite neat in his black clothes RECOLLECTION, by ARTHUR RIMBAUD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The year the imperial prince was born Last Line: And proper, with the holy spaniardesse, at night REJOICINGS IN MISFORTUNE: 1.BANNERS OF MAY, by ARTHUR RIMBAUD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the bright branches of he linden trees, a sickly death cry grows Last Line: Sun is laughing ot parents. But I want to laugh at nothing. And let my %misfortune be free REJOICINGS IN MISFORTUNE: 2. SONG OF THE HIGHEST TOWER, by ARTHUR RIMBAUD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In my useless youth, a slave to every concern, by thoughtfulness for Last Line: Every concern, by thoughtfulness for others I lost my life. Ah! Let the %time come, when hearts are REJOICINGS IN MISFORTUNE: 3. ETERNITY, by ARTHUR RIMBAUD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It has been found. What? Eternity. It is the sea strethcing out under Last Line: Nity. It is the sea stretching out under the sun REJOICINGS IN MISFORTUNE: 4. GOLDEN AGE, by ARTHUR RIMBAUD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: One of the ever angelic voices, talking about me, sharply expresses Last Line: Big brother! Etc. I sing also: multiple sisters! Private voices! Surround %me with chaste glory, etc REMARKS ADDRESSED TO THE POET, APROPOS FLOWERS, by ARTHUR RIMBAUD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: So: endlessly bordering the black azure Last Line: -it's illustrated-and available from hachette! REMARKS TO A POET ON THE SUBJECT OF FLOWERS, by ARTHUR RIMBAUD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Forever thus, in azure darkness Last Line: It's cheaper ordered by the year REMEMBRANCE, by ARTHUR RIMBAUD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Water, clear as the salt of children's tears Last Line: Deep in this edgeless eye of water - into what mud? REMEMBRANCES OF AN OLD IDIOT, by ARTHUR RIMBAUD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Forgive me, father! Last Line: -let's just yank on our dicks! RIGHTEOUS MAN..., by ARTHUR RIMBAUD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: O righteous men, we shit in your bellies of stone RIVER CASSIS, by ARTHUR RIMBAUD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Unnoticed, the river cassis streams Last Line: Who toast with vestigial arms RIVER OF CORDIAL, by ARTHUR RIMBAUD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The river of cordial rolls ignored Last Line: And the old claw he shows ROMANCE, by ARTHUR RIMBAUD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Nobody's serious when they're seventeen Last Line: And there are linden trees on the promenade ROYALTY, by ARTHUR RIMBAUD Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: One fine morning, in a land full of mild-mannered folk Last Line: Were truly kings. ROYALTY, by ARTHUR RIMBAUD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: On a brilliant morning, in a city of lovely people Last Line: When they appeared at the edge of the gardens of palms RUNT OF A DREAM, by ARTHUR RIMBAUD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Maybe there is an evening meant Last Line: Not even allowed in, there Subject(s): Dreams SALE, by ARTHUR RIMBAUD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: For sale %whatever the jews have left unsold Last Line: Salesmen may turn in their accounts later SALE, by ARTHUR RIMBAUD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: For sale what the jews have not sold Last Line: No danger that travelers will be called to account in a hurry Subject(s): Imagination; Vision SATURNINE HYPOTYPOSES, VIA BELMONTET, by ARTHUR RIMBAUD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: So what is this dark and impenetrable mystery? Last Line: Oh! What distinction streams through your manly mustache. Belmontet, %parnassian archetype SAVIOR BUMPED UPON HIS HEAVY BUTT, by ARTHUR RIMBAUD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: In a luminous river of fiery stars SCENES, by ARTHUR RIMBAUD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The old comedy pursues its conventions and divides Last Line: At the intersection of ten panels hung from the balcony %to the footlights SCHOOL NOTEBOOK, SELS, by ARTHUR RIMBAUD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Aristomanes lifted himself up, extended Last Line: More likely that the artisan is insufficient for the task than the task for %the artisan SCRAPS, by ARTHUR RIMBAUD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Beneath dark walls, beating the skinny dogs Last Line: Moonlight, when the bell struck twelve SEA BREEZE, by ARTHUR RIMBAUD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My flesh I sad, alas, and I have read the books Last Line: But, o my heart, listen to the sailors' song! SEALED LIPS; SEEN IN ROME, by ARTHUR RIMBAUD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In papal rome, in the sistine Last Line: A large pinch of schismatic snuff SEASCAPE, by ARTHUR RIMBAUD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Silver and copper the cars Last Line: In an angle attacked by tornados of light SEASON IN HELL: DELIRIOUS. II ALCHEMY OF LANGUAGE, by ARTHUR RIMBAUD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My turn. The story of one of my crazy spells Last Line: My character became embittered. I said goodbye to the world in ballads of a kind SEASON IN HELL: LIVES III, by ARTHUR RIMBAUD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In an attic where I was shut when I was twelve I Last Line: Beyond the grave, and at liberty SEASON IN HELL: MARINE, by ARTHUR RIMBAUD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The chariots of silver and copper Last Line: Where it is bending wounded with whirlpools of light SEASON IN HELL: PROGRESS, by ARTHUR RIMBAUD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The flicking shoelace of falls along the bank Last Line: And sing and take their station SEASON IN HELL: RAVINGS II, by ARTHUR RIMBAUD Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Depression, Mental SEASON IN HELL: WORKERS, by ARTHUR RIMBAUD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oh that warm february morning! The unseasonable Last Line: Hardened arm to drag a dear image along any more SEASON OF HELL, by ARTHUR RIMBAUD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Once, I I remember well, my life was a feast where all hearts opened Last Line: Few, hideous pages from my notebook of one of the damned Subject(s): Imagination; Vision SEATED ONES, by ARTHUR RIMBAUD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Black with wens, pock-marked, their eyes encircled with green Last Line: Through the sword grasses--and their members are excited %bythe beards of the ears of corn SECOND DELIRIUM: THE ALCHEMY OF THE WORD, by ARTHUR RIMBAUD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My turn now. The story of one of my insanities Last Line: All that is over. Today, I know how to celebrate beauty SEEN IN ROME, by ARTHUR RIMBAUD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In rome, in the sistine Last Line: Inside occult decay SENSATION, by ARTHUR RIMBAUD Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: On summer evenings blue, pricked by the wheat Last Line: Happy as one walks by a woman's side. SENSATION, by ARTHUR RIMBAUD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: On blue summer evenings I'll go down the pathways Last Line: Into nature - happy, as if with a woman SENSATION, by ARTHUR RIMBAUD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: On summer evenings blue, where ears of wheat SENSATION, by ARTHUR RIMBAUD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Through blue summer nights I will pass along paths Last Line: In nature-as happily as with a woman SEVEN-YEAR-OLD POETS, by ARTHUR RIMBAUD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The mother closed the copybook, and went away Last Line: Canvas sheets, a turbulent vision of sails SEVEN-YEAR-OLD-POET, by ARTHUR RIMBAUD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And so the mother, shutting up the duty-book Last Line: Raw canvas, prophesying strongly of the sail! SHAME, by ARTHUR RIMBAUD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As long as the blade has never / yet pierced his brain Last Line: One prayer should rise! SHAME, by ARTHUR RIMBAUD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As long as a knife has not cut Last Line: Let someone say a prayer SHAME, by ARTHUR RIMBAUD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As long as the blade has not cut through Last Line: At his death however, o %my god! Let there arise some prayer! SHAME, by ARTHUR RIMBAUD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If the knife has yet Last Line: May someone say a prayer SIDEBOARD, by ARTHUR RIMBAUD Poem Source Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It is a high, carved sideboard made of oak Last Line: As we slowly open your old dark door SIDEBOARD, by ARTHUR RIMBAUD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A broad carved sideboard; its dark, aged oak Last Line: Your big black doors slowly swing open SIRE, TIME HAS ABANDONED HIS RAINCOAT..., by ARTHUR RIMBAUD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: God blesses the merciful: let the world bless the poets SISTERS OF CHARITY, by ARTHUR RIMBAUD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The young man with shining eyes and brown skin Last Line: O sister of charity, o mystery, o death! SISTERS OF CHARITY, by ARTHUR RIMBAUD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This youth, his brilliant eye and shining skin Last Line: O sister of charity, o mystery, o death SITTERS, by ARTHUR RIMBAUD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Black with warts, picked with pox, eyelids all green Last Line: And the prickle of straw makes their cocks hard SITTING MEN, by ARTHUR RIMBAUD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Black wens, pockmarks, green bags Last Line: Are stirred by the sharp straw of their seats SLEEPER IN THE VALLEY, by ARTHUR RIMBAUD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A green hole where a river sings Last Line: Two red holes on his right side SLEEPER IN THE VALLEY, by ARTHUR RIMBAUD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This is the green wherein a river chants Last Line: Upon one side there are two spots of red SLEEPER OF THE VALLEY, by ARTHUR RIMBAUD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Through a green gorge the river like a fountain Subject(s): War SLEEPER OF THE VALLEY, by ARTHUR RIMBAUD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It's a gap of greenness where a singing river Last Line: Breast. In his right side he has two red holes SONG OF THE HIGHEST TOWER, by ARTHUR RIMBAUD Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Idle youth / by all availed Last Line: When hearts entwine! Subject(s): Memory; Old Age SONG OF THE HIGHEST TOWER, by ARTHUR RIMBAUD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Idle young days %to everything enslaved Last Line: Have lost my life. %ah! Let the time come %when hearts with love are overcome! SONNET, by ARTHUR RIMBAUD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Dead men of 'ninety-two Subject(s): War SONNET TO AN ASSHOLE, by ARTHUR RIMBAUD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Dark and wrinkled like a violet carnation Last Line: A womanly canaan surrounded in moisture SONNET: TO THE ASSHOLE, by ARTHUR RIMBAUD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Dark, puckered hole: a purple carnation Last Line: It's a heavenly jam-pot, the promised land %which with other milk and honey overflows! Subject(s): Homosexuality SQUATTING, by ARTHUR RIMBAUD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Later, when he feels his stomach upset Last Line: An odd nose traces venus through the night SQUATTING, by ARTHUR RIMBAUD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Later, when he feels his stomach grumble Last Line: Surreal: a nose seeking venus in the deep dark sky STAR WEPT PINK..., by ARTHUR RIMBAUD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The star wept pink in the core of your ears Last Line: And man at your sovereign bled black STAR WEPT..., by ARTHUR RIMBAUD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: And man bled black onto your sovereign side STOLEN HEART, by ARTHUR RIMBAUD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My sad heart drools on deck Last Line: When they've shot their wads? STOLEN HEART, by ARTHUR RIMBAUD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My sad heart slobbers at the poop Last Line: How will I act, o stolen heart STOLEN HEART, by ARTHUR RIMBAUD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My weeping heart on the deck drools spit Last Line: How will I act, my stolen heart STOLEN HEART, by ARTHUR RIMBAUD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My sad heart drivels at the poop STUNNING VICTORY AT SAARBRUCKEN, by ARTHUR RIMBAUD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the middle, the emperor, in an apotheosis Last Line: Gets to his feet, flashes his can, and says: 'long live this' SUN AND FLESH, by ARTHUR RIMBAUD Poem Source Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The sun, hearth of tenderness and life Last Line: #name? SUN HAS WEPT ROSE, by ARTHUR RIMBAUD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The sun has wept rose in the shell of your ears Last Line: And man has bled black at your sovereign side TALE, by ARTHUR RIMBAUD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A prince was annoyed that he had forever devoted himself Last Line: Our desire lacks the music of the mind TALE, by ARTHUR RIMBAUD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A prince was vexed at having devoted himself only to the perfection Last Line: Skilled music is lacking to our desire Subject(s): Imagination; Vision TARTUFE CHASTISED, by ARTHUR RIMBAUD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Fanning flames in a lovesick heart beneath Last Line: Ugh! Tartufe stood naked from head to toes TARTUFE UNDONE, by ARTHUR RIMBAUD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: One day as he walked happily along, raking Last Line: Leaving tartufe naked-ugh!-head to toe! TEAR, by ARTHUR RIMBAUD Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Far from the birds, the cattle herds, the village girls Last Line: Weeping, I saw gold-and could not drink. TEAR, by ARTHUR RIMBAUD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Far from flocks, from birds and country girls Last Line: Never deny that my thirst has caused me pain TEAR, by ARTHUR RIMBAUD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Far away from birds, herds, and village girls Last Line: But! Like a fisher for gold or shellfish, %to think that I knew no need to drink! TEAR, by ARTHUR RIMBAUD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Far from birds, flocks, and village girls, I was drinking, squatting in Last Line: Shells in the sunset, just imagine, I didn't care to drink! TEAR, by ARTHUR RIMBAUD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Far from birds, herds, and village girls Last Line: Like a panner for gold or diver for shells TEASE, by ARTHUR RIMBAUD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the dark brown dining room, whose heavy air Last Line: Real low: 'feel that: my cheek has got so cold - ' THE DRUNKEN BOAT, by ARTHUR RIMBAUD Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As I descended black, impassive rivers Last Line: Nor swim beneath the horrible eyes of prison ships. THE LICE SEEKERS, by ARTHUR RIMBAUD Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When the child's forehead full of red torments Last Line: Spring up and die unceasingly a wish to cry. Subject(s): Lice THE POOR MAN THINKS, by ARTHUR RIMBAUD Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Perhaps some evening yet Last Line: Unlock for me the door. Subject(s): Poverty THE SLEEPER OF THE VALLEY, by ARTHUR RIMBAUD Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There's a green hollow where a river sings Last Line: Tranquil -- with two red holes in his right side. Subject(s): Nature; Soldiers THIRST, by ARTHUR RIMBAUD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We are your grandparents Last Line: I said: to drain all the vessels! Subject(s): Drinks And Drinking TO A REASON, by ARTHUR RIMBAUD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Your finger strikes the drum, dispersing all its sounds Last Line: Come from always, you will go away everywhere TO BEDSIDE BOOKS..., by ARTHUR RIMBAUD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Isn't it? Dr. Venutti's treatise on conjugal love TO MUSIC, by ARTHUR RIMBAUD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Pruned into stingy plots of grass, the public square Last Line: #name? TO MY BEDSIDE BOOKS, THOSE EXQUISITE EDITIONS, by ARTHUR RIMBAUD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Venetti -- study of venereal disease TORTURED HEART, by ARTHUR RIMBAUD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Over the stern, my sad heart, drool Last Line: What can I do, my cheated heart? Subject(s): Homosexuality TRIUMPH OF HUNGER, by ARTHUR RIMBAUD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Hunger, hunger, sister anne Last Line: Leave me if you can TRIUMPH OF PATIENCE: A SONG FROM THE HIGHEST TOWER, by ARTHUR RIMBAUD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Idle children Last Line: When all hearts fall in love TRIUMPH OF PATIENCE: BANNERS OF MAY, by ARTHUR RIMBAUD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the bright branches of the willow trees Last Line: And I will be free in this misfortune TRIUMPH OF PATIENCE: ETERNITY, by ARTHUR RIMBAUD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It is recovered Last Line: Of sun become sea TRIUMPH OF PATIENCE: GOLDEN AGE, by ARTHUR RIMBAUD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: One of these voices Last Line: In your bashful light - etc TWO IN HARAR: ARTHUR RIMBAUD, 1886-1888, by JOHN MATTHIAS Poem Source First Line: And was harar for sale? And were le voyant's visions Last Line: Travelers would not render their commission for a while UNDER SIEGE?, by ARTHUR RIMBAUD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The poor driver, beneath the tin canopy Last Line: Debaucher yaps away in the dark intersection! VAGABONDS, by ARTHUR RIMBAUD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Pitiful brother! Last Line: While I searched continually to find the place and the formula VAGABONDS, by ARTHUR RIMBAUD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Pitiful brother! What atrocious vigils I owe him! Last Line: We wandered, I impatient to find the place and the formula! Subject(s): Imagination; Vision VENUS ANADYOMENE, by ARTHUR RIMBAUD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Out of what seems a coffin made of tin Last Line: She bends and shows the ulcer on her anus VENUS ANADYOMENE, by ARTHUR RIMBAUD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Af from a green tin coffin, a woman's head Last Line: --and this whole body moves and bends its broad rump hideously %beautiful with an ulcer on the anus VENUS ANADYOMENE, by ARTHUR RIMBAUD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As if from a green tin coffin, a woman's head Last Line: For view: a repellent frame for the ulcer on her anus VERSES FOR BATHROOM WALLS, by ARTHUR RIMBAUD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The hole of this seat so poorly made Last Line: Are truly worthy of this besieged throne VERY BIG BABY WAS BORN..., by ARTHUR RIMBAUD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: For the genius of arab shores will be revealed!' VIA LABARRIERE, by ARTHUR RIMBAUD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: ...Are these %...(barrels?)... That we burst? Last Line: And the drunken poet tells off the universe! VIGILS, by ARTHUR RIMBAUD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This is a place of rest and light Last Line: Ah! Wells of magic; this time, a single sight of dawn VIGILS, by ARTHUR RIMBAUD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It is repose in the light, neither fever nor languor, on a bed or on a meadow Last Line: In any case nothing of what it seems at present Subject(s): Imagination; Vision VOWEL SONNET, by ARTHUR RIMBAUD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A black, e white, I red, u green, o blue Last Line: O omega, violet ray of her eyes. Subject(s): Sonnet (as Literary Form); Vowels VOWELS, by ARTHUR RIMBAUD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A black, e white, I red, u green, o blue Last Line: -omega, the violet ray of his eyes! VOWELS, by ARTHUR RIMBAUD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Black a, white e, red I, green u, blue o -- vowels Last Line: O - omega - the violet light of his eyes VOWELS, by ARTHUR RIMBAUD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Black a, white e, red I, green u, blue o - vowels Last Line: O, omega, violet ray of her eyes! VOWELS, by ARTHUR RIMBAUD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A black, e white, I red, u green, o blue: vowels Last Line: Silences traversed of worlds and of angels: %-o the omega, violet ray of hid eyes! VOWELS, by ARTHUR RIMBAUD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A black, e white, I red, u green, o blue: vowels Last Line: O omega, his eyes' violet rays VOWELS, by ARTHUR RIMBAUD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A black, e white, I red, u green, o blue: vowels Last Line: O, the omega, of those eyes the violet beam! VOWELS, by ARTHUR RIMBAUD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Black a, white e, red I, green u, blue o: vowels Last Line: -o the omega, the violet beam from his eyes! VOWELS [OR, VOYELS], by ARTHUR RIMBAUD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A black, e white, I red, u green, o blue - I'll tell VOYELLES, by ARTHUR RIMBAUD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A black, e white, I red, u green, o blue, vowels Last Line: X-ray of her eyes; it equals sex Subject(s): Vowels WAIFS AND STRAYS, by ARTHUR RIMBAUD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Black in the fog and in the snow WAR, by ARTHUR RIMBAUD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When I was a child Last Line: It is as simple as a musical phrase WASTELANDS OF LOVE, by ARTHUR RIMBAUD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This, I am sure, is the same countryside. Last Line: I cried more than all the children in the world WHAT DO WE CARE, MY HEART, by ARTHUR RIMBAUD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What do we care, my heart, for streams of blood Last Line: It's nothing; I'm here -- I'm still here WHAT NINA ANSWERED, by ARTHUR RIMBAUD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He: just the two of us together Last Line: She: and be late for work WHAT TO US, MY HEART, ARE THE POOLS OF BLOOD, by ARTHUR RIMBAUD Poet Analysis Poet's Biography WHEEL RUTS, by ARTHUR RIMBAUD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: On the right the summer morning stirs the leaves Last Line: And out trot great fat blue black mares WHEN THE IRANIAN CARAVAN STOPPED..., by ARTHUR RIMBAUD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Gold. Their chief cried out (...)decided to suppress (...) some accepted WINTER DREAM, by ARTHUR RIMBAUD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: One winter, we'll take a train, a little rose-colored car Last Line: -and we'll take our time finding the beast %-while it roams WINTER FESTIVAL, by ARTHUR RIMBAUD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Behind the comic-opera huts, the sound of a waterfall Last Line: Chinese ladies out of boucher WOMEN WHO SEEK FOR LICE, by ARTHUR RIMBAUD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When the boy's forehead, full of red tempests Last Line: The slowness of their caresses, welling and dying %unceasingly a desire to cry WORKERS, by ARTHUR RIMBAUD Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ah, that warm february morning. The untimely south wind came Last Line: Cherished image behind. WORKERS, by ARTHUR RIMBAUD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A warm morning in february Last Line: This hardened arm will drag along no more 'sweet memories' YOU DEAD OF NINETY-TWO AND NINETY-THREE, by ARTHUR RIMBAUD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: And now our newspapers praise you to the skies YOU LIED..., by ARTHUR RIMBAUD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: This femur worked for forty years! YOUNG COUPLE, by ARTHUR RIMBAUD Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The room is open to the turquoise sky Last Line: Charm the blue of their window instead! Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives YOUNG COUPLEDOM, by ARTHUR RIMBAUD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The bedroom stands open to the turquoise sky Last Line: Bless their window's blue view instead! YOUNG GLUTTON, by ARTHUR RIMBAUD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Two sick %young fruits Last Line: Come quick!' %he shoots YOUTH: 1. SUNDAY, by ARTHUR RIMBAUD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Problems put by, the inevitable descent of heaven Last Line: Let us resume our study to the noise of the devouring work that is assembling and rising in the mass Subject(s): Imagination; Vision YOUTH: 2. SONNET, by ARTHUR RIMBAUD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Man of ordinary constitution, was not the flesh a fruit hung in the orchard Last Line: Might and right reflect your dance and your voice, only appreciated at present Subject(s): Imagination; Vision YOUTH: 3. TWENTY YEARS OLD, by ARTHUR RIMBAUD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Instructive voices exiled Last Line: Quickly, indeed, the nerves take up the chase Subject(s): Imagination; Vision YOUTH: 4. WAR, by ARTHUR RIMBAUD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When a child, certain skies refined my vision Last Line: It is as simple as a musical phrase Subject(s): Imagination; Vision YOUTH: I. SUNDAY, by ARTHUR RIMBAUD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: All calculations set to one side Last Line: That forms and ferments in the masses Subject(s): Youth YOUTH: II. SONNET, by ARTHUR RIMBAUD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Man of average constitution, was the flesh not once Last Line: That only the present can appreciate YOUTH: III. TWENTY YEARS OLD, by ARTHUR RIMBAUD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Exiled the voices of instruction Last Line: (of course, our nerves are quickly shot to hell!) YOUTH: IV, by ARTHUR RIMBAUD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You are playing still at the temptation of saint anthony Last Line: Nothing, nothing at all like its present appearance |
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