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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Keyword: mallarme Matches Found: 227 A FRAGMENT, by STEPHANE MALLARME Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: On battlemented morningside Last Line: The grasses and the leaves are still. Subject(s): Wind; Winter A THROW OF THE DICE NEVER WILL ABOLISH CHANCE, by STEPHANE MALLARME Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: A throw of the dice Last Line: All thought emits a throw of the dice Subject(s): Disasters; Fate; Luck; Shipwrecks; Destiny AFTER MALLARME, by ROBERT CREELEY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Stone, %like stillness Last Line: Without a sound AFTERNOON OF A FAUN, by STEPHANE MALLARME Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Those nymphs, I want to capture them Last Line: Adieu, you two. I shall see the shade you are AFTERNOON OF A FAUN, by STEPHANE MALLARME Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I would perpetuate these nymphs Last Line: Sweet pair, farewell. I shall see the shades you become AFTERNOON OF A FAUN, by STEPHANE MALLARME Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: These nymphs that I would perpetuate Last Line: Couple, farewell; I'll see the shade that now you are AFTERNOON OF A FAUN, by STEPHANE MALLARME Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I would immortalize these nymphs: so bright Last Line: Nymphs, I shall see the shade that you are now AFTERNOON OF A FAUN, by STEPHANE MALLARME Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: These nymphs I would perpetuate Last Line: Adieu, both! I shall see the shade you became AFTERNOON OF A FAUN: ECLOGUE, by STEPHANE MALLARME Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: These nymphs, whom I itch to perpetuate Subject(s): Nymphs AFTERNOON OF A FAUN: THE FAUN, by STEPHANE MALLARME Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Those nymphs, I want to capture them Last Line: Adieu, you two. I shall see the shade you are ALBUM LEAF, by STEPHANE MALLARME Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Suddenly half in jest Last Line: Child's laugh that charms the air ALBUM LEAVES, by STEPHANE MALLARME Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Suddenly and as in play Last Line: Childish laugh that charms the air ALL FAMILY PRIDE IS GLORIOUS AS A SUNSET, AND..., by STEPHANE MALLARME Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Such that, near some window, one oculd have been born a poet from its %belly ALMS, by STEPHANE MALLARME Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Take this purse, beggar! You only whine Last Line: And above all, brother, do not go to buy bread ANGEL IN THE HOUSE, by MARIA NEGRONI Poem Source First Line: I will make a poem-incantation following mallarme Last Line: Playfully/mounting my %silence ANGUISH, by STEPHANE MALLARME Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: I come not to conquer your body tonight, o creature Last Line: In terror of dying while sleeping alone. ANGUISH, by STEPHANE MALLARME Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I come not to ravish your body, o beast Last Line: Afraid of dying when I sleep alone ANOTHER FAN, by STEPHANE MALLARME Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: O dreamer, that I might Last Line: Against the fire of a bracelet ANOTHER FAN, by STEPHANE MALLARME Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: O dreamer, in order that I may dive Last Line: This closed white flight and you now place it %against the fire of a bracelet Subject(s): Love ANOTHER FAN (OF MADEMOISELLE MALLARME), by STEPHANE MALLARME Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O dreamy one, that I may plunge Last Line: Against the fire of a bracelet. Subject(s): Fans ANTHOLOGY OF LONELY DAYS, by FRANK O'HARA (1926-1966) Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The ubiquitous mallarme Last Line: And when you come you will be welcome, as you know APPARITION, by STEPHANE MALLARME Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: The moon grew sad. The tear-stained seraphim Last Line: Clusters of fragrant stars like gleaming snow. APPARITION, by STEPHANE MALLARME Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The moon was grieving. Seraphim in tears Last Line: Snowy bouquets of richly scented stars APPARITION, by STEPHANE MALLARME Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The moon grew sorrowful. Seraphim dreaming in tears Last Line: Of a spoiled child, always letting form her hands left ajar %snow white bouquets of scented stars APPARITION, by STEPHANE MALLARME Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The moon was languishing. Seraphim dreaming in tears Last Line: Snow white bouquets of perfumed stars ARTISTS COLONY, 1954, by WINSTON WEATHERS Poem Source First Line: In these enchanted woods, mallarme hides Last Line: Of being, once, so young & beautiful AT GAUTIER'S GRAVE, by STEPHANE MALLARME Poem Source Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: To you, gone emblem of man's happiness Last Line: Miserly silence and the massive night Subject(s): Gautier, Theophile (1811-1872); Mourning AUTUMN LAMENT, by STEPHANE MALLARME Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Since maria left me to go to another star Last Line: Perceiving that the instrument was not singing alone AZURE, by STEPHANE MALLARME Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The serene irony of the eternal sky Last Line: For I am haunted. The sky! The sky! The sky! BEAUTIFUL SUICIDE VICTORIOUSLY FLED, by STEPHANE MALLARME Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: From which would fall roses -- the emblem you bear BELL-RINGER, by STEPHANE MALLARME Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: While the bell awakens its voice clear and bright Last Line: I'll hang myself, satan, removing the stone BESTOWAL OF THE POEM, by STEPHANE MALLARME Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: I bring you the infant of idumaean night Last Line: Towards the lips which the air or the azure maid starves? Subject(s): Poetry And Poets - French BREEZE FROM THE SEA, by STEPHANE MALLARME Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The body's sad, and I've read everything Last Line: No masts, no fecund isles, no anything-- %but heart, just listen: how the sailors sing! Subject(s): Love CHARLES BAUDELAIRE'S TOMB, by STEPHANE MALLARME Poem Source Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: The shrouded temple divulges through Last Line: This shade a tutelary poison to be inhaled %forever if we perish from it CHASTENED CLOWN, by STEPHANE MALLARME Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Eyes, lakes with my simple intoxication to be Last Line: Not knowing, ingrate! %that that was all my consecration, %that paint drowned in the perfidious wate CHEERS -- BOTTOMS UP, by STEPHANE MALLARME Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Mere froth, these virgin verses Last Line: From sounding at this sumptuous feast Subject(s): Toasts CLOWN CHASTISED, by STEPHANE MALLARME Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Eyes, lakes with my simple lust to be reborn Last Line: This rouge drowned in the glacial waters of perfidy CLOWN REPROVED [LE PITRE CHATIE], by STEPHANE MALLARME Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Eyes, lakes with my simple rapture to be reborn CONCEALED FROM THE OVERWHELMING CLOUD, by STEPHANE MALLARME Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Will have drowned avariciously %the childish flank of a siren's body! DECLARATION AT A FAIR, by STEPHANE MALLARME Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Ah, silence! It is certain that stretched out beside me Last Line: Playfulness of a nocturnal breeze DEMON OF ANALOGY, by STEPHANE MALLARME Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Have unknown words ever sung on your lips Last Line: To bear the grief of the inexplicable penultimate DOES PRIDE AT EVENING ALWAYS FUME, by STEPHANE MALLARME Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Than the console glittering there ECCLESIASTIC, by STEPHANE MALLARME Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Spring impels the organism to acts which Last Line: Mysterious seal of modernity, at once baroque and beautiful EDGAR POE'S TOMB, by STEPHANE MALLARME Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Such as into himself eternity changes him finally Last Line: The black flights of blasphemy dispersed into the future ELEGANCE OF A WITHERED FLOWER, by NINA ZIVANCEVIC Poem Source First Line: Oh mallarme, I never liked you Last Line: Youth, has it gone away, forever? (and as I thought it over,%cared for, forsaken it?) ENTIRE SOUL EVOKED, by STEPHANE MALLARME Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Your art in its faint traces FAN, by STEPHANE MALLARME Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Frigid roses to survive Last Line: Aroma emitted from mery FAN, by STEPHANE MALLARME Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: With nothing else for speech Last Line: In your busy hands, my dear FAN, by STEPHANE MALLARME Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: With as for lanuage nothing but %a flutter Last Line: Thus may it appear for times limitless %between your hands without idleness FAUN'S AFTERNOON, by STEPHANE MALLARME Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: These nymphs, these I want to perpetuate Last Line: To open my mouth to the star that makes wines effectively! %adieu, couple; I'll visit the shade that FLIGHT OF FLAMING HAIR, by STEPHANE MALLARME Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The flight of flaming hair at the extreme Last Line: In the manner of a joyous and tutelary torch FLOWERS, by STEPHANE MALLARME Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: From golden showers of the ancient skies Last Line: For the weary poet withering on the husk FOR THE SAKE OF VOYAGING -- HEEDLESSLY, by STEPHANE MALLARME Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: The smile of some forsaken vasco FRECKLES, by JORGE GUILLEN Poem Source First Line: Mallarme, pen-brush %compares the dry leaves Last Line: It needs a shelter %of golden shadow FROM MALLARME: POEM IN PROSE, by STEPHEN RATCLIFFE Poem Source First Line: An idea floating away, one calls Last Line: The source of a mouth, ten FUNERAL TOAST; FOR THEOPHILE GAUTIER, by STEPHANE MALLARME Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: O fatal emblem, thou, of all our happiness! Last Line: The solid sepulcher where all things harmful lie, %and avaricious silence and night's immensity Subject(s): Gautier, Theophile (1811-1872) FUTILE PETITION, by STEPHANE MALLARME Poem Source Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Princess! In envy of the fate of a hebe Last Line: Princess, name us shepherd of your smiles GAUGUIN, by ROBERT MEZEY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: His journalist father %wrote some remarkable articles Last Line: The incomprehensible poems of stephane mallarme GAUGUIN, by MANUEL VAZQUEZ MONTALBAN Poem Source First Line: His journalist %father Last Line: And above all %the incomprehensible verses of stephane mallarme GIFT OF THE POEM, by STEPHANE MALLARME Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I bring you the child of an idumaean night Last Line: For lips starved from the air the virginal azure blows GIFT OF THE POEM, by STEPHANE MALLARME Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I bring you the child of a night of idumaea! Last Line: Through which flows in sibylline whiteness the woman for %the lips starving for the air of the virgi GIFT OF THE POEM, by STEPHANE MALLARME Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I bring you the child of an idumaean night, black Last Line: For lips spurned by this virgin air? GLAZIER, by STEPHANE MALLARME Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The pure sun puzzled Last Line: Off the glazier's back GLORY, by STEPHANE MALLARME Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Glory! Until yesterday I didn't know it Last Line: Somewhere, the train which had left me there alone HAIR, by STEPHANE MALLARME Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The hair aflame, %desire's west spreading Last Line: Doubt destroyed %as by a joyous guardian torch HAIR..., by STEPHANE MALLARME Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The hair flight of a flame at he far west Last Line: Of sowing with ruby the doubt that she grazes or %peels off just like a joyous and tutelary torch HER PURE NAILS ON HIGH DISPLAYING THEIR ONYX, by STEPHANE MALLARME Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: The scintillations of the one-and-six HERODIADE, by STEPHANE MALLARME Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: For whom, consumed with anguish, do you keep the unseen splendor Last Line: Its frigid jewels becoming separate at last. HERODIADE: 1. ANCIENT OVERTURE OF HERODIADE, by STEPHANE MALLARME Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Abolished, and its frightful wing in the tears Last Line: Of a moribund star, which never more shall shine HERODIADE: 2. THE NURSE -- HERODIADE, by STEPHANE MALLARME Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Are you a living princess or her shadow Last Line: Being broken off at last amidst its dreams HERODIADE: 3. CANTICLE OF SAINT JOHN, by STEPHANE MALLARME Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The sun as it's halted Last Line: It extends a salutation HERODIAS, SELECTION, by STEPHANE MALLARME Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ay, for myself, myself I flower forlorn! Last Line: Its chill gems part at last. Subject(s): Dreams; Virginity; Youth; Nightmares; Vestals HERODIAS--SCENE, by STEPHANE MALLARME Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The nurse, herodias. N: you are still alive! Or am I seeing the ghost Last Line: Tery and of your cries, is feeling, in the midst of its reveries, its cold %jewels finally part HOMAGE (TO PUVIS DE CHAVANNES), by STEPHANE MALLARME Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Even a dawn too numb Last Line: Before the unveiled nymph who makes %your glory known HOMAGE (TO RICHARD WAGNER), by STEPHANE MALLARME Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The silence already funereal spreads a pall Last Line: Unmuted even by the ink in sobbings sibylline HUSHED TO THE CRUSHING CLOUD, by STEPHANE MALLARME Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: The flank of a young siren girl HYMN FOR DES ESSEINTES, by STEPHANE MALLARME Poem Source Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Hyperbole! Can you not rise triumphantly from my memory, now Last Line: The name of pulcheria and half-hidden by some too huge gladiolus I HAVE VICTORIOUSLY AVOIDED THE SAME SUICIDE AS THE SUN..., by STEPHANE MALLARME Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: From which roses fall to form your face IMPORTANCE OF DICTIONARIES, by JAMES LAUGHLIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Mallarme told degas that poems Last Line: More colorful and stimulating Subject(s): Degas, Edgar (1834-1917); Dictionaries; Language; Mallarme, Stephane (1842-1898); Paintings And Painters IN AN ACT OF CONSECRATON, THIS MIDNIGHT, THE LAMP..., by STEPHANE MALLARME Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Fixed the seven sparkling stars of the big dipper IN MEMORIAM: STEPHANE MALLARME, by FRANCIS VIELE-GRIFFIN Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If they said to you: 'master!' Last Line: To utter words—against the tomb. Subject(s): Mallarme, Stephane (1842-1898) IN THE FORGOTTEN WOODS, WHEN SOMBER WINTER GLOWERS, by STEPHANE MALLARME Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: With which all evening you have called my name INSERT MYSELF WITHIN YOUR STORY, by STEPHANE MALLARME Poet's Biography INTERRUPTED PERFORMANCE, by STEPHANE MALLARME Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: How far civilization is from procuring Last Line: Had been superior, and even the true one IT WOULD BE NICE TO TRANSLATE MALLARME, by GYORGY PETRI Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: This world with its grim winters JINX, by STEPHANE MALLARME Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Gleaming above the bewildered human herd Last Line: Go hang themselves from lampposts in the street LACE CURTAIN SELF-DESTRUCTS, by STEPHANE MALLARME Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Give birth to you like a son LACE SWEEPS ITSELF ASIDE, by STEPHANE MALLARME Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Filial, might have been born LANGUOR, by STEPHANE MALLARME Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Mingling a potion for his thirst the sun LE LIVRE, SELS., by STEPHANE MALLARME Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: End %conscience Last Line: And the book Subject(s): Books LES FENETRES, by STEPHANE MALLARME Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Las du triste hopital et de l'encens fetide LINES, by STEPHANE MALLARME Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: The moon grew pale. -- the weeping seraphim Last Line: A fall of stars which perfumed all the night. Subject(s): Kisses; Vision LITTLE AIR (MARTIAL), by STEPHANE MALLARME Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: It suits me not to hold my peace Last Line: That wild emotion rankly breeds LITTLE AIR: 1, by STEPHANE MALLARME Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Somehow a solitude / with neither swan nor quay Last Line: Your naked jubilation. Subject(s): Solitude; Loneliness LITTLE AIR: 2, by STEPHANE MALLARME Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Inexorably bound / as my hope launching high Last Line: On some path to stay! Subject(s): Despair LITTLE AIR: I, by STEPHANE MALLARME Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Some sort of solitude Last Line: Naked jubilation grown LITTLE AIR: II, by STEPHANE MALLARME Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Indomitably must Last Line: He still pursue some chosen way LITTLE TUNE, by STEPHANE MALLARME Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Some place or other isolated %without the swan nor the quay Last Line: In the wave become your incarnation %your naked jubilation LONG AFTER (MALLARME), by RUTH DANON Poem Source First Line: Irony and pity, some ghosts, some Last Line: Poem zero. Hello MAGIC, by STEPHANE MALLARME Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Huysmans, in a work whose purpose was quite different from that of Last Line: Ize them in a marginal magic, separate from it delicious, chaste--yet expressible %metaphors MALLARME AS PHILOLOGIST, DYING, by ROSMARIE WALDROP Poem Source First Line: Even the purest writer is not entirely in his work, we must admit. A Last Line: His breath stops, and we are all speechless MALLARME IN HIS BOAT AT VALVINS, by ROBIN SCOFIELD Poem Source First Line: The poet of the void %could afford Last Line: And flings its bright neant upon the trees MALLARME INSPIRES SOME ALARM, by HENRY G. FISCHER Poem Source First Line: No flesh now; we've but fowl and fish Last Line: Come of this, yet some alarm may MALLARME OVER HIROSHIMA, by DAVID MIDDLETON Poem Source First Line: I glowed in saffron robes, a mystic of the east Last Line: A hothouse rose unfolding from its name, %pure in science and art and pure in flame MALLARME: SAINT, by GEORGE FREDERICK MORGAN Poem Source First Line: At the window harboring MEMO, by WILLIAM STONEKING Poem Source First Line: At the very least, uncle mallarme Last Line: There is kinship between us %and the flames Subject(s): Labor And Laborers MEMORIAL FOR STEPHANE MALLARME, FR. THE VEIL AND THE SMILE, by TAKIS VARVITSIOTIS Poem Source First Line: How much silk in the veils of time! Last Line: The poet acknowledged eternity in himself MY OLD BOOKS CLOSED ONCE MORE ON PAPHOS' NAME, by STEPHANE MALLARME Poet's Biography MY OLD BOOKS CLOSED UPON PAPHOS' NAME, by STEPHANE MALLARME Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Of an ancient amazon with cauterized breast NEGRESS, by STEPHANE MALLARME Poem Source Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: A negress roused by demons is on fire Last Line: Pale and rosy as an ocean shell NOTE TO WHISTLER, by STEPHANE MALLARME Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Not gusts of wind that hold the streets Last Line: From her skirt might fan whistler O SO DEAR FROM FAR AWAY, SO NEAR AND WHITE, by STEPHANE MALLARME Poet's Biography OF THE SOUL ALL THINGS, by STEPHANE MALLARME Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Too precise a meaning erases your %vague literature OLD-CLOTHES WOMAN, by STEPHANE MALLARME Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Your lively look that pierces them Last Line: And nude as a god I go. Subject(s): Nudity; Nakedness OLD-CLOTHES WOMAN, by STEPHANE MALLARME Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Her eye that glances piercely ON MALLARME'S PLAN, by JAY P. WHITE Poem Source First Line: More lives. Who doesn't carry this hunger OTHER POEMS AND SONNETS I, by STEPHANE MALLARME Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Does every pride of evening smoke Last Line: There blazes no other conflagration %than the console which fulgurates OTHER POEMS AND SONNETS II, by STEPHANE MALLARME Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Risen from the rump and the bounding up Last Line: To exhale anything that announces %a rose in the darkness OTHER POEMS AND SONNETS III, by STEPHANE MALLARME Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: A lace annuls itself totally %in the supreme games's uncertainty Last Line: To no womb but its own womb, filial %on eoculd have been born PAPHOS, by STEPHANE MALLARME Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Paphos...I close my old books on the name Last Line: On the other -- the ancient amazon's charred breast PARIS SUITE: 5. UNFINISHED LINES, by DANIEL BERRIGAN Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: A bronze head of mallarme by picasso Last Line: No one's familiar, listen and look long PERUSING MALLARME IN MAINE, by MARSDEN HARTLEY Poem Source First Line: Mallarme %with this equestrian cliff clutching PHENOMENON OF THE FUTURE, by STEPHANE MALLARME Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: A pale sky, hovering over a world that is dying Last Line: They exist in an age tht has outlived beauty PIPE, by STEPHANE MALLARME Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Yesterday I found my pipe while pondering a long Last Line: When saying goodbye forever PIPE, by STEPHANE MALLARME Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Yesterday I found my pipe, dreaming of a long evening of work Last Line: Terrible kerchief that is waved in saying goodbye forever POOR PALE CHILD, by STEPHANE MALLARME Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Poor pale child, why do you bawl out your sharp Last Line: Oh! Poor little head! PROSE, by STEPHANE MALLARME Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Hyperbole! Can you not rise Last Line: This sacred name: 'pulcheria!' %hidden by the too large lily flower PROSE, by STEPHANE MALLARME Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Hyperbole! From my memory %can't you arise triumphantly Last Line: At bearing this name: pulcherie! %by the too large gladiolus concealed PROSE FOR DES ESSEINTES, by STEPHANE MALLARME Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Hyperbole! Can't you arise Last Line: Is hidden by the enormous bloom READINGS IN FRENCH, by THOMSON WILLIAM GUNN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Refining mallarme at last destroyed Last Line: Particularities which furnish hell Alternate Author Name(s): Gunn, Thom Subject(s): Poetry And Poets - French REMEMBRANCE OF BELGIAN FRIENDS, by STEPHANE MALLARME Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: At certain hours when barely a breeze has blown Last Line: To light the winged spirit to its home REMINISCENCE, by STEPHANE MALLARME Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Orphan, I was wandering in black and with an eye Last Line: Suddenly dismayed at not having parents RENEWAL, by STEPHANE MALLARME Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Lucid winter, season of art serene Last Line: And wakened birds bloom twittering in the sun RONDELS, by STEPHANE MALLARME Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Nothing you have when you awake Last Line: We'll love each other if you choose SADNESS OF SUMMER, by STEPHANE MALLARME Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Mingling a potion for his thirst in the sun Last Line: Take on the hardness of these azure spheres SAINT, by STEPHANE MALLARME Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: At the window ledge concealing Last Line: Musician of silences. SAINT, by STEPHANE MALLARME Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: At the window frame concealing Last Line: Musician of silences SAINT, by STEPHANE MALLARME Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: At the window containing/concealing Last Line: She balances on the instrumental %plumage, she the musician of silence SAINT, by STEPHANE MALLARME Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: At the window holding Last Line: On the instrumental plumage- %musician of silence SALUTATION, by STEPHANE MALLARME Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Nothing, this foam, virgin verse Last Line: Our sheet's white care in setting forth SALUTATION, by STEPHANE MALLARME Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Nothing, this foam, virgin verse Last Line: To whatever was worth %the white care of our sail cloth SEA BREEZE, by STEPHANE MALLARME Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: The flesh is sad, alas! And I have read all the books Last Line: Still, o my heart, listen to the sailors' song! SEA BREEZE, by STEPHANE MALLARME Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The flesh is sad, alas! And I have read Last Line: But, o my sad heart, hear the sailors' song SEA BREEZE, by STEPHANE MALLARME Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The flesh is sad, alas, and there's nothing but words Last Line: But oh, my heart, listen to the sailors sing SEA BREEZE, by STEPHANE MALLARME Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The flesh is say, alas! And I have read all the books. To flee! Last Line: Without masts, without masts, or fertile islets... %but, o my heart, to the sailors' singing, listen SEA BREEZE, by STEPHANE MALLARME Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The flesh is sad, alas! And I have read Last Line: But, o my sad heart, hear the sailors' song SEA BREEZE [BRISE MARINE], by STEPHANE MALLARME Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The flesh is sad, alas! And I've read all the books SEA WIND, by STEPHANE MALLARME Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The flesh is sad, alas! And all the books are read Last Line: But, o my heart, hear thou, hear thou the sailors' song! Subject(s): Sea; Ocean SEVERAL SONNETS I, by STEPHANE MALLARME Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: When the shadow menaced with its fatal law a cerain old dream Last Line: Itself revolves in that ennui some vile fires as witnesses %that the genius of a festive star has li SEVERAL SONNETS II, by STEPHANE MALLARME Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Will the virgin, hardy and beautiful present time Last Line: He immobilizes himself in the cold dream of scorn put on %amid his useless exile by the swan SEVERAL SONNETS III, by STEPHANE MALLARME Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Victoriously the beautiful suicide fled Last Line: Your head like a martial helmet of a child empress %from which to image you there would tumble roses SEVERAL SONNETS IV, by STEPHANE MALLARME Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Her pure nails consecrating on high their onyx Last Line: In the oblivion enclosed by the frame, there fixes %itself with scintillations at once the septet SIGH, by STEPHANE MALLARME Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Towards your brow where an autumn dreams Last Line: In one long lingering ray crawl on. SIGH, by STEPHANE MALLARME Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: My soul, calm sister, ascends toward your brow Last Line: Let the sun be drawn out in a long ray of yellow SIGH, by STEPHANE MALLARME Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: My soul rises toward your brow, o clam sister, on which dreams a Last Line: In their tawny death drift before the wind and trace a cold wake SONNET, by STEPHANE MALLARME Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: When winter on forgotten woods moves somber Last Line: "my name in murmurs evening-long repeated." SONNET, by STEPHANE MALLARME Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: So dear from far and near and white, and so Last Line: Spoken so softly by the kiss in your hair SONNET, by STEPHANE MALLARME Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Lady %who burns without being burnt or trying Last Line: Our whole unvarying, natural intimacy SONNET, by STEPHANE MALLARME Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Le vierge, le vivace et le bel aujourd'hui SONNET, by STEPHANE MALLARME Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: From afar so loved and near, so cloudless fair, so Last Line: That alone my kiss breathed on thy hair, is telling SONNETS TO BE WRITTEN FROM PRISON: 1, by ROBERT+(1) ADAMSON Poem Source First Line: O to be 'in the news' again - now as fashion runs Last Line: Mallarme's: still-life with bars and shitcan SPRING, by STEPHANE MALLARME Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Spring has chased winter away Last Line: And all those flowering birds chirping in the sun SPRINGTIME, by STEPHANE MALLARME Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The sickly spring has sadly driven away SPRUNG FROM THE CROUP AND THE FLIGHT, by STEPHANE MALLARME Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: That a rose in the darkness should live STEPHANE MALLARME (1842-1898):(AN IMITATION): LYING UNDER AN ARBOR...., by JUDITH VOLLMER Poem Source First Line: My body was sad and I'd read all my books Last Line: Lead to the dizzy sea STEPHANE MALLARME: WINDOWS, by ROBERT SAMUEL GWYNN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Sick of the ward, sick of the fetid smell Last Line: Risking the plunge into eternity? Alternate Author Name(s): Gwynn, R. S. Variant Title(s): Mallarme: Window STILL BY THE CLOUD STRICKEN / LOW WITH LAVA AND ASH, by STEPHANE MALLARME Poet's Biography STILL LIFE WITH BRIOCHE 1880 EDOUARD MANET, by BEATRICE G. HOLT Poem Source First Line: From %the dark emerges a perfect Last Line: Line from %mallarme's pen STREET SONGS: 1. THE SHOEMAKER, by STEPHANE MALLARME Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Without the wax, what can one do Last Line: If that was what you wanted, feet! STREET SONGS: 2. THE WOMAN SELLING AROMATIC HERBS, by STEPHANE MALLARME Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Don't think I'm willing to pay cash Last Line: The very first fruits of your lice STREET SONGS: 3. THE ROADMENDER, by STEPHANE MALLARME Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: You break pebbles for your sins Last Line: Each day and year by year STREET SONGS: 4. THE SELLER OF GARLIC AND ONIONS, by STEPHANE MALLARME Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The boredom of paying a call Last Line: If onions I should grate STREET SONGS: 5. THE WORKMAN'S WIFE, by STEPHANE MALLARME Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Wife and child and soup being brought Last Line: Into the habit of being married STREET SONGS: 6. THE GLAZIER, by STEPHANE MALLARME Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The pure sun -- throwing off Last Line: Its shirt on the back of the glazier STREET SONGS: 7. THE NEWSPAPER VENDOR, by STEPHANE MALLARME Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Always, whatever the title Last Line: Of the early edition news STREET SONGS: 8. THE OLD-CLOTHES WOMAN, by STEPHANE MALLARME Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The piercing eye with which you see Last Line: And naked I go as a deity SUMMER SADNESS, by STEPHANE MALLARME Poem Source Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: O wrestler, the sun on the sand as you sleep Last Line: The indifference of the azure and of stone SWAN (VARIATION ON MALLARME), by THOMAS STURGE MOORE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Blithe-fronted, lofty, young too, wilt thou, day Alternate Author Name(s): Moore, T. Sturge THE AFTERNOON OF A FAUN, by STEPHANE MALLARME Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Those nymphs, I would perpetuate them Last Line: I am to see the shadow into which ye grew. THE AZURE, by STEPHANE MALLARME Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: In serene irony the infinite azure Last Line: I am obsessed. The azure! The azure! The azure! The azure! THE CHASTENED CLOWN, by STEPHANE MALLARME Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Eyes, lakes withal my simple drunkenness to be reborn Last Line: This grease paint drowned in the glacial water of perfidy. THE TOMB OF CHARLES BAUDELAIRE, by STEPHANE MALLARME Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Through its sepulchral sewer mouth, ozzing mud and rubies Last Line: Always for us to breathe even if we perish from it. Subject(s): Baudelaire, Charles (1821-1867); French Poetry - Symbolism; Poetry & Poets THE TOMB OF EDGAR POE, by STEPHANE MALLARME Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Just as eternity transforms him at last unto himself Last Line: To the foul flights of straggling blasphemy in the future. Subject(s): Poe, Edgar Allan (1809-1849) THE WHITE WATER LILY, by STEPHANE MALLARME Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I had been rowing for a long time with a sweeping, rhythmical, drowsy stroke Last Line: Sometimes and lingers by a spring which must be crossed or by a lake. THIS DAY, THIS PURE, ENDURING, BEAUTIFUL TODAY, by STEPHANE MALLARME Poet's Biography THROW OF THE DICE, by STEPHANE MALLARME Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Will never %even when launched in eternal %circufmstances Last Line: All thought emits a throw of the dice THROW OF THE DICE, by STEPHANE MALLARME Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Though %the %deep %whitened %at slack water Last Line: All thought casts a throw of the dice TO INSERT MYSELF INTO YOUR STORY, by STEPHANE MALLARME Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Of my sole chariot of evening TO MALLARME, by JUDITH BISHOP Poem Source First Line: The lamp %the blank paper Last Line: Have no answer %your mistress indifference Subject(s): Mallarme, Stephane (1842-1898); Man-woman Relationships; Women's Rights TOAST, by STEPHANE MALLARME Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: This bit of foam, this nothing, a verse purely Last Line: The white solicitude of the cloth of our sail. TOAST, by STEPHANE MALLARME Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Zero, this spume -- a virgin verse Last Line: The white endeavor of our sail TOMB, by STEPHANE MALLARME Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The black rock angered that the north wind rolls Last Line: Without drinking from it or exhausting its breath %a shallow, calumniated rivulet death TOMB (OF PAUL VERLAINE), by STEPHANE MALLARME Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: The dark rock angered to be blown by the blast Last Line: A stream not very deep and calumniated death. Subject(s): Poetry And Poets - French; Verlaine, Paul (1844-1896) TOMB (OF VERLAINE), by STEPHANE MALLARME Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The black rock raging that the wind has rolled Last Line: A shallow stream calumniated death TOMB OF CHARLES BAUDELAIRE, by STEPHANE MALLARME Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The buried temple empties through its bowels Last Line: We breathe in always though it bring us death Subject(s): Baudelaire, Charles (1821-1867); French Poetry - Symbolism; Poetry And Poets TOMB OF EDGAR ALLAN POE, by STEPHANE MALLARME Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Appearing such as eternity has transformed him into real self, the Last Line: Black flights of blasphemy scattered in the future Subject(s): Poe, Edgar Allan (1809-1849) TOMB OF EDGAR POE, by STEPHANE MALLARME Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: As to himself at last eternity changes him Last Line: To the dark flights of blasphemy hurled to the future Subject(s): Poe, Edgar Allan (1809-1849) TOMB OF EDGAR POE (VERSION A), by STEPHANE MALLARME Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Even as eternity brings him at last to himself Last Line: To the black flights that blasphemy may spread thereafter Subject(s): Poe, Edgar Allan (1809-1849) TOMB OF POE, by STEPHANE MALLARME Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: At last the poet, changed by eternity Last Line: To black flights of blasphemy in the future TOMB OF STEPHANE MALLARME, by CHARLES SIMIC Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Beginning to know Last Line: Death's great amateur %night %the childhood of parmenides %oh yeah TUESDAY AT 87 RUE DE ROME, by JAMES LAUGHLIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: M. Mallarme has put a curse on me Last Line: Punishment by particulars I now must suffer Subject(s): Mallarme, Stephane (1842-1898) UNDER THE OVERWHELMING STORM CLOUD, IN A SHOAL..., by STEPHANE MALLARME Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Drowned, as if hungry, only a child siren, in the white streak of foam %remaining? VARIATIONS ON HALF OF A LINE BY MALLARME, by AUGUST KLEINZAHLER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Helas, the flesh is sad and money Last Line: Spoor no money no place %our refuge %rain and flesh sad flesh VARIATIONS ON SOME STIRRINGS OF MALLARME, by ROBERT KELLY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The chest is open and I elude all the leaves Last Line: A friend obsessed with you is calling your name %godlike even to create a world in which you answer VIRGIN, BRIGHT AND BEAUTIFUL TODAY, by STEPHANE MALLARME Poem Source Poet's Biography VIRGIN, BRIGHT, AND BEAUTIFUL TO-DAY, by STEPHANE MALLARME Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Immobile in the cold, where dreams deride, %clothed in the useless exile of the swan Subject(s): Scottish Translations VIRGINAL, VIBRANT, AND BEAUTIFUL DAWN, by STEPHANE MALLARME Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: That clothes the useless exile of the swan VIRGINAL, VIVID, BEAUTIFUL, WILL THIS BE, by STEPHANE MALLARME Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Such dreams as in his exile clothe the swan VIRGINAL, VIVID, BEAUTIFUL, WILL THIS BE, by STEPHANE MALLARME Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Such dreams as in his exile clothe the swan WEARY OF BITTER SLEEP, by STEPHANE MALLARME Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Weary of bitter sleep in which my indolence Last Line: To three large celia nearby, of emerald color, reeds WHAT BALM OF TIME, by STEPHANE MALLARME Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: What balm of time, %silk of subdued chimaera Last Line: Into your huge coiffure %with my stifled cry WHAT SILK STEEPED IN THE BALMS OF TIME, by STEPHANE MALLARME Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: The cry of glories he would stem WHEN THE SHADOW MENACED WITH ITS FATAL LAW, by STEPHANE MALLARME Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: That genius has been kindled by a festive star WHEN, WITH ITS FATEFUL REGULARITY, THE SHADOW OF NIGHT..., by STEPHANE MALLARME Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Denied, rolls wearily iwth its vile stars, bearing witness that the genius %of a festive planet has WHITE WATER LILY, by STEPHANE MALLARME Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I had rowed for a long time, with a clean, sweeping Last Line: A spring that must be crossed, or of some other body of water WHOLE SOUL SUMMED UP, by STEPHANE MALLARME Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: To rub out your vague literature WILL THE PURE, HARDY, BEAUTIFUL NEW DAY TEAR ME FREE..., by STEPHANE MALLARME Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Tempt for other regions, the dream he is wrapped in during his useless %exile WIND FROM THE SEA, by STEPHANE MALLARME Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Weary is the flesh, alas! With many books the eyes are dim Last Line: But hearken, o my heart, the singing mariners that hoist the sails! Subject(s): Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Wind; Ocean WINDOWS, by STEPHANE MALLARME Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Tired of the sad hospital and the fetid smell Last Line: Wings -- at the risk of falling through eternity WINDOWS, by STEPHANE MALLARME Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Tired of the gloomy hospital and of the fetid incense rising along th e Last Line: Wings--at the risk of falling for all eternity? WINDOWS (VERSION A), by STEPHANE MALLARME Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Disgusted with the dreary hospital, and the rank fumes Last Line: -even at the risk of falling in eternity? Subject(s): Self-hate WINDOWS (VERSION B), by STEPHANE MALLARME Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Sick of the dreary hospital, and the rank of fumes WINTER SHIVER, by STEPHANE MALLARME Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: That dresden clock, which runs slow and strikes Last Line: (these spiderwebs are shivering on top of the high casements) WITH MY BOOKS CLOSED AGAIN ON THE NAME OF PAPHOS, by STEPHANE MALLARME Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: The other one, about the burned breast of an ancient amazon WORKMAN'S WIFE, by STEPHANE MALLARME Poem Source Poet's Biography WREATHED IN STORM-CLOUDS OVERHANGING, by STEPHANE MALLARME Poem Source Poet's Biography YET ANOTHER FAN, by FRANK O'HARA (1926-1966) Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It's a great shame %madame mallarme Last Line: Our freckles into %coral and grass |
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