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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Keyword: paul verlaine Matches Found: 301 A BAD SLEEPER, by PAUL VERLAINE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He is a bad sleeper and it is a joy to me Subject(s): Gays & Lesbians A CONFESSION, by PAUL VERLAINE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O my god, thou hast wounded me with love Subject(s): Religion; Theology A FORGOTTEN TUNE, by PAUL VERLAINE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A frail hand hovering sets the keys astir Last Line: Beyond the window where the garden blows? Subject(s): Longing; Music & Musicians A GREAT DARK SLEEP, by PAUL VERLAINE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: A sorry story Subject(s): Sleep ABOVE THE ROOF THE SKY IS FAIR, by PAUL VERLAINE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Tell me, what have you done, you there, %with youth's best years?' ACCOMPANYING A SKETCH, by PAUL VERLAINE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Verlaine, paul - artist: felix regamey Last Line: Digests his bacon slab and slice of cod AFTER THREE YEARS, by PAUL VERLAINE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thrusting open the narrow door, leaving it to swing ALLEGORY, by PAUL VERLAINE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Despotic, heavy, colorless, the summer Last Line: Extends its flowings and its flowings back... %wasps, here and there, are flying, yellow and black ALLEGORY, by PAUL VERLAINE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Despotic summer, heavy, colorless Last Line: Black, yellow dragonflies dart here, dart there ALLEGORY, by PAUL VERLAINE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A mountain summit - yellow, faint: and there Last Line: Counterfeit as my very destiny? AMONG THE TREES, by PAUL VERLAINE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: From realms above... %the hour for love AN EXCHANGE OF FEELINGS, by PAUL VERLAINE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the old park, deserted in the frost Last Line: And in the little garden die again? Subject(s): Love; Mourning; Bereavement AND GOD SAID TO ME: MY SON, YOU MUST LOVE ME. YOU SEE, by PAUL VERLAINE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: I sweated the sweat of your nighttimes, pitiable friend %whoseeks for me where I am? ANGUISH, by PAUL VERLAINE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Nature, thou movst me not at all, nor fields ANOTHER DRINK SONG, by PAUL VERLAINE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When all is said and done, I win Last Line: - yes, share (a little of) this fine schiedam divine! ANOTHER SONG WITHOUT WORDS, by PAUL VERLAINE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Too red, too red the roses were Last Line: And of all things but you . . . But you. . . . Subject(s): Flowers; Hair; Roses; Singing & Singers APATHY, by PAUL VERLAINE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I am the empire at the end of its decadence Last Line: Nothing but a nameless boredom to afflict you. Subject(s): Apathy; France ARS POETICA, by PAUL VERLAINE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: First and foremost comes musical line Last Line: And all the rest is literary ARS POETICA, by PAUL VERLAINE Poem Source Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Music first and foremost! In your verse Last Line: All the rest is nothing more than writing ARSEHOLE, by PAUL VERLAINE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It is shy as a gathered eyelet Last Line: I fed that famished mouth my ambergris Subject(s): Love - Erotic ARSEHOLE, by PAUL VERLAINE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It is shy as a gathered eyelet Last Line: I fed that famished mouth my ambergris Subject(s): Erotic Love ART OF POETRY, by PAUL VERLAINE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Music before everything, and for that reason, prefer lines of an un- Last Line: Smells of mint and thyme--and anything else in literature ART OF POETRY, by PAUL VERLAINE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Music before anything else, and for such composing Last Line: Which always smells of thyme and of mint... %and all the rest is literature AUTUMN SONG, by PAUL VERLAINE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The heavy thrall / of the sobbing call Last Line: Dead leaf. Subject(s): Autumn AUTUMN SONG, by PAUL VERLAINE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The long sobs of the autumn violins owund my heart with a melan- Last Line: Bears me now here, now there, like a dead leaf AUTUMN SONG, by PAUL VERLAINE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The sobs long drawn %of the autumn %violins Last Line: To this area %and that, like the %leaf that is dead AUTUMN SONG, by PAUL VERLAINE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Violins complain %of autumn again Last Line: And I rise and go %like a dead leaf AUTUMN SONG, by PAUL VERLAINE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The autumn's throbbing %strings moan, sobbing Last Line: Now here, now there - %aimless, lost AWAKENING, by PAUL VERLAINE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It's back to poetry for me! Last Line: It's back to poetry for me BAD SLEEPER, by PAUL VERLAINE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He is a bad sleeper and it is a joy to me Last Line: Am I hapy? Totus in benigo positus! Subject(s): Homosexuality BEAUTE DES FEMMES, LEUR FAIBLESSE, ET CES MAINS, by PAUL VERLAINE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography BEAUTIFUL FALSELIGHT GLEAMS ALL DAY, MY SOUL, by PAUL VERLAINE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography BEAUTY OF WOMEN, WEAKNESS, PALE SOFT SKIN, by PAUL VERLAINE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: When death arrives, what lasts when we are gone? BEFORE YOU DEPART, by PAUL VERLAINE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: --quick, quick, for here comes %the golden sun.-- BLONDE? BROWN? WHICH IS YOUR HAIR?, by PAUL VERLAINE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: My pleasure, serve my being's most treasured need! BON CHEVALIER MASQUE QUI CHEVAUCHEEN SILENCE, by PAUL VERLAINE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography BOURNEMOUTH, by PAUL VERLAINE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Le long bois de sapins se tord jusqu'au rivage BRIGHT IN THE EVENING'S GRAY AND PINKISH BLUR, by PAUL VERLAINE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: You, who will soon be dying, over by %the window open on the greenery? BRUSSELS, by PAUL VERLAINE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The fleeting hills and slopes are pink and greenish, in a half-light of Last Line: Side. The fields around--oh! Why is our love not nestled there! BRUSSELS, MERRY-GO-ROUND, by PAUL VERLAINE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Go round, go round, good merry-go-round Last Line: Now the lover and his mistress depart. %go round to the joyful sound of the drums! C'EST L'EXTASE LANGOUREUSE, by PAUL VERLAINE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It is the ecstasy of languor Subject(s): Conscientious Objectors C'EST L'EXTASE LANGOUREUSE, by PAUL VERLAINE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It is the ecstasy of languor Last Line: Through this tepid evening, so low Subject(s): Conscientious Objectors CHANSON D'AUTOMNE, by PAUL VERLAINE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The autumn wind wails thin, / like a sobbing violin Last Line: When the winter gusts begin to and fro Subject(s): Wind; Grief; Winter CHANSON D'AUTOMNE, by PAUL VERLAINE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The long-drawn sighs CHARLEROI, by PAUL VERLAINE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The kobolds come! %grass, black. And deep Last Line: The winds. They weep. %or so think some CIRCUMSPECTION, by PAUL VERLAINE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Give me your hand, hold still your breath, let's sit Last Line: Nature, that fearsome god, ferocious, mute CITY!' GAUDY CLUSTER OF WHITE STONES, by PAUL VERLAINE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Harbors a soul, racked, weeping, rent in two CLAIR DE LUNE, by PAUL VERLAINE Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Your soul is a moonlit landscape fair Subject(s): Moon CLAIR DE LUNE, by PAUL VERLAINE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Your soul is a sealed garden, and there go Last Line: And the slim fountains sob into the air %among the marble statues in the glade Subject(s): Moon CLAIR DE LUNE, by PAUL VERLAINE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Your soul is a moonlit landscape fair Subject(s): Moon COLLOQUE SENTIMENTAL, by PAUL VERLAINE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the deserted park, silent and vast Last Line: And night alone o'erheard the things they said. COLLOQUE SENTIMENTAL, by PAUL VERLAINE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the old, desolate park, in frost Last Line: Their talk only the night has caught COLLOQUE SENTIMENTALE, by PAUL VERLAINE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the old park, solitary and vast COLOMBINE, by PAUL VERLAINE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The foolish leander COLOMBINE, by PAUL VERLAINE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The dimwitted leander, %the hood-headed cassander Last Line: Her legion d'amour %of dupes? CONFESSION, by PAUL VERLAINE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O my god, hou hast wounded me with love Subject(s): Religion CORTEGE, by PAUL VERLAINE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A silver-vested monkey trips Last Line: Indifferent or unaware. Subject(s): Monkeys CORTEGE, by PAUL VERLAINE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: An ape, in brocade jacket dressed Last Line: Brash tribute that her pets are paying COVERING THE LAND, by PAUL VERLAINE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Blurring the terrain, snow haze gleams like sand CRIMEN AMORIS (THE CRIME OF LOVE), by PAUL VERLAINE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In a palace, silk and gold, in ecbatana Last Line: Adores, expands in an ecstasy and beseeches %the merciful god who will keep us form evil DAHLIA, by PAUL VERLAINE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Hard-bosomed courtesan, magnificent Last Line: Irksome, among the jasmines, who abhor you! DEATH, by PAUL VERLAINE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Our swords commands are silent now, expect Last Line: Death that, in victory, sings its affirmation DREAM, by PAUL VERLAINE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: No! No more poetry! I'm through! Last Line: For a reason: for tomorrow I'm %inheriting a sack of gold DRINK SONG, by PAUL VERLAINE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A drunken sot, that's what I am! Last Line: I can't go fetch a glass or two to treat you to E'S FINCH, by PAUL VERLAINE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Incredible: that pretty finch of e's Last Line: You added this, as bright a mot as that: %'perhaps he'd have gone better on my hat!' Subject(s): Love ECOUTEZ LA CHANSON BIEN DOUCE, by PAUL VERLAINE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography EN SOURDINE, by PAUL VERLAINE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Calm where the twilight leaves have stilled Last Line: The delight of our despair Subject(s): Love ERE THY SOFT RAY BE LOST, by PAUL VERLAINE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Behold! The first sunbeam Subject(s): Dawn EXCHANGE OF FEELINGS, by PAUL VERLAINE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the old park, deserted in the frost Last Line: So they walk on in the self-seeding grass %with only night to hear them as they pass Subject(s): Love; Mourning EXILE, by PAUL VERLAINE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O sad, o sad my spirit was Subject(s): Love FALL SONG, by PAUL VERLAINE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Low notes drawn long, %fall's fiddlesong Last Line: Like a leaf %once alive FALLING DUSK, by PAUL VERLAINE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The rising moon glows red through fitful sleep Last Line: Come, love, watch venus rise, for it is night FALSE IMPRESSION, by PAUL VERLAINE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Madam mouse trips by Last Line: Up, you dawdler, you! FAUN, by PAUL VERLAINE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Antique clay faun FAUN, by PAUL VERLAINE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: An old terra-cotta faun laughs out Last Line: Unto this hour whose fligt whirls to %the sound of the tambourins FAUN, by PAUL VERLAINE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: An ancient terra cotta faun %laughs on the green: sign, probably Last Line: To this one hour, now spun and gone %midst tambourines' cacophony FEMME ET CHATTE, by PAUL VERLAINE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O she was playing with her cat Last Line: By four bright stars of phosphorus Subject(s): Animals; Cats FEMME ET CHATTE, by PAUL VERLAINE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They were just playing, lady and cat Last Line: Four dazzling points of phosphor gleamed Subject(s): Animals; Cats FEMME ET CHATTE, by PAUL VERLAINE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O she was playing with her cat Subject(s): Animals; Cats FETES GALANTES: A CLYMENE, by PAUL VERLAINE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Mystical strains unheard Last Line: So let it be! FETES GALANTES: CYTHERE, by PAUL VERLAINE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: By favourable breezes fanned Last Line: The folly of love's sacrifices. FETES GALANTES: FANTOCHES, by PAUL VERLAINE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Scaramouche waves a threatening hand Last Line: Of the loud languorous nightingale. FETES GALANTES: L'ALEE, by PAUL VERLAINE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As in the age of shepherd king and queen Last Line: The slightly simpering sparkle of the eye. FETES GALANTES: L'AMOUR PAR TERRE, by PAUL VERLAINE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The wind the other evening over threw Last Line: Brightening the littered leaves upon the ground? FETES GALANTES: LES INDOLENTS, by PAUL VERLAINE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Bah! Spite of fate, that says us nay Last Line: Ha! Ha! Ha! What fantastic lovers! FETES GALANTES: MANDOLINE, by PAUL VERLAINE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The singers of serenades Last Line: Ecstasy of the moon. Subject(s): Musical Instruments FETES GALANTES: PANYOMIME, by PAUL VERLAINE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Pierrot, no sentimental swain Last Line: And in her heart a voice that sighs. Subject(s): Pantomime FETES GALANTES: ROMANCES SANS PAROLE, SELECTION, by PAUL VERLAINE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Tears in my heart that weeps Last Line: Why thou hast all this woe. Subject(s): Grief; Sorrow; Sadness FETES GALANTES: ROMANCES SANS PAROLE: 4, by PAUL VERLAINE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O sad, sad was my soul, alas Last Line: We are divided or together Subject(s): Love FETES GALANTES: ROMANCES SANS PAROLE: 7, by PAUL VERLAINE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The roses were all red Last Line: And all but you, alas Subject(s): Love FETES GALANTES: ROMANCES SANS PAROLE: 7, by PAUL VERLAINE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The roses were all red Last Line: And all but you, alas Subject(s): Love FOG!, by PAUL VERLAINE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Our paris fog is dull; one might Last Line: I worship her, and she loves me 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 FOR BIBI-PUREE, by PAUL VERLAINE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Curious bird, %bibi-puree Last Line: Your paupery, your opulence? FOR CHARLES BAUDELAIRE, by PAUL VERLAINE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I do not know you now, or like you, nor Last Line: A simple death, eh? We, brothers in sin FOR CLYMENE, by PAUL VERLAINE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Songs of the gondolier, %vague, wordless airs; my dear Last Line: My tenuous heart, amen! %so be it then! FOR EDMOND LEPELLETIER, by PAUL VERLAINE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My oldest friend, last of that score Last Line: Heart; for won't we, too, join their number? FOR GEORGES VERLAINE, by PAUL VERLAINE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This book will reach you as, in bygone time Last Line: Fear god, hate none, bear well your name that I, %in proper fashion, bore FOR MADEMOISELLE, by PAUL VERLAINE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Rustic belle, indiscreet, %dark-corner debauchee Last Line: I envy all those clods %who get to lie with you FROM SAGESSE, by PAUL VERLAINE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Slumber dark and deep Last Line: Silence, like the grave. Subject(s): Dreams; Rest; Silence; Sleep; Nightmares GARDEN WAY, by PAUL VERLAINE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Fair as a queen in mock-heroic days Last Line: Sets off the sparkle in her pale blue eyes GERMAIN NOUVEAU, by PAUL VERLAINE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ce fut a londres, ville ou l'anglaise domine GOD SPAKE AND SAID, by PAUL VERLAINE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Thy neighbor in the dark o hapless fried Subject(s): God GREAT BLACK SOMNOLENCE FALLS OVER MY LIFE. SLEEP..., by PAUL VERLAINE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Bad--such a misfortune! I am a cradel rocked by a hand in the depths of %a vault. Silence, silence! GREAT DARK DROWSINESS, by PAUL VERLAINE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: A hand is rocking in %the pit of a burial vault: %be silent,be silent! GREEN, by PAUL VERLAINE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here fruit and flowers I bring to thee; green leaves and sprays I proffer Last Line: And sleep awhile, when thy fond love its haven shall have found. Subject(s): Flowers; Kisses; Love; Nature; Soul GREEN, by PAUL VERLAINE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here you have fruits and flowers and boughs with leaves Last Line: In a brief sleep, since you too are at rest GREEN, by PAUL VERLAINE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here are some fruits, some flowers, some branches and Last Line: Let it calm down from the good tempest, %and let me sleep a little since you are resting GREEN, by PAUL VERLAINE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here, take these boughs, leaves, fruits, and flowers. And take Last Line: Me sleep a little, even as you rest HEDGES BILLOW LIKE THE SEA'S, by PAUL VERLAINE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Up, up, into the milk-white sky HOPE SHINES LIKE A BLADE OF STRAW IN THE CATTLE STABLE, by PAUL VERLAINE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Hope shines like a pebble in a pit. Ah, when %will the roses of september flower again? HOPE SHINES LIKE A WISP OF STRAW IN THE STABLE. WHAT DO..., by PAUL VERLAINE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Hope shines like a stone in a hole on the road. Ah, hwen will the sep- %tember roses flower again! HOPE SHINES SMALL, A SPLINTER OF STRAW IN THE STABLE, by PAUL VERLAINE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography HORN'S SOUND IN THE WOOD SOBS DOLEFULLY, by PAUL VERLAINE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Spreads, lanquid, its caress over the land HOUR OF THE SHEPHERD, by PAUL VERLAINE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The moon hanging red on the fog HUNTING HORN GRIEVES TOWARDS THE FOREST WITH, by PAUL VERLAINE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: For such sweetness on this monotonous evening dwells %in which a sluggish landscape coddles itself I DREAMED OF YOU LAST NIGHT; AND YOU, by PAUL VERLAINE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: But more our festive lustfulness! I KNOW NOT WHY, by PAUL VERLAINE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: On restless, frantic pinions Subject(s): Soul I USED TO WANDER AIMLESSLY, by PAUL VERLAINE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Joined us as one in joyousness I'M POORER THAN I'VE EVER BEEN, by PAUL VERLAINE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: My very senses lie in thrall %to your command? I'VE HAD NO LUCK WITH WOMEN, by PAUL VERLAINE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: You love me, don't you? And I love you IL BACIO, by PAUL VERLAINE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Kiss! Hollyhock in love's luxuriant close! Last Line: Red lips of one I know, a light and smile! Subject(s): Kisses IL PLEUT DOUCEMENT SUR LA VILLE, by PAUL VERLAINE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Tears fall within mine heart Last Line: Mine heart is desolate. Subject(s): Desolation; Grief; Sorrow; Sadness IN MARY'S HUMBLE EAR, by PAUL VERLAINE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: His every wish and whim: %and that's enough for him IN MUTED TONE, by PAUL VERLAINE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Gently, let us steep our love Last Line: Our despair will, solemn, sing IN MY HEART THERE IS WEEPING, by PAUL VERLAINE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Without love or hate to explain %my heart feels so much pain! IN THAT CAFE CROWDED WITH FOOLS WE STOOD, by PAUL VERLAINE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Under the table jetted great white sneezes IN THE ENDLESS ENNUI, by PAUL VERLAINE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Of the meadowland %snow falling unsteadily %glistens like sand IN THE INTERMINABLE, by PAUL VERLAINE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography IN THE STYLE OF PAUL VERLAINE, by PAUL VERLAINE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It's the moonlight's fault if I put on Last Line: Not without its pains, injected me IN THE UNDENDING / TEDIUM OF THE PLAIN, by PAUL VERLAINE Poet Analysis Poet's Biography IN THE WOODS, by PAUL VERLAINE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Other people - innocents or lunatics / find in the woods only pallid charms Last Line: Sound like waiting assassins plotting to strike. Subject(s): Fear; Forests; Night; Woods; Bedtime INNOCENCE, by PAUL VERLAINE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: High heels and trailing skirts confront strong winds Last Line: We thought our very being throbbed with love INNOCENT BOYS, by PAUL VERLAINE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: High heels caught in a swirl of lace INNOCENTS WE, by PAUL VERLAINE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Their long skirts and high heels battled away Last Line: Lies that still set our souls trembling with awe IT'S THANKS TO YOU I SEE HOW I, by PAUL VERLAINE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Drawn by a double magnet toward %the devil...Or whatever IT'S THE LANGUOROUS ECSTASY, by PAUL VERLAINE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Love, this balmy eventide, %in a humble, soft refrain KALEIDOSCOPE, by PAUL VERLAINE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: On a street in the heart of a dream city, it will be just as if one had Last Line: The shimmering sound of a bee in flight KALEIDOSCOPE, by PAUL VERLAINE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: On a street, in the heart of a dream city Last Line: In the summer's grass, to the moire noise of the flight of a bee L'ALLEE, by PAUL VERLAINE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Strawberry juice cheeks and dusted eyes (something LA MER DE BOURNEMOUTH, by PAUL VERLAINE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: La me est plus belle LA PROMENADE, by PAUL VERLAINE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The sky so pale, and the trees, such frail things Last Line: With a shy pity pouting in the mouth LAME SONNET, by PAUL VERLAINE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ah, it's really sad, ah, really it's ending too badly. It shouldn't be Last Line: Ending too badly, it's sad. O the fire from heaven on this city from the %bible! LANE, by PAUL VERLAINE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Face painted, powdered, as in olden days' Last Line: The slightly daft flamboyance of her glances LANGUOR, by PAUL VERLAINE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I am the empire at the end of its decadence LANGUOR, by PAUL VERLAINE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I am the empire at the end of the decadence, watching the tall white Last Line: Lascivious slave hwo neglects me, nothing but a weariness of heaven knows-what afflicting me LANGUOR, by PAUL VERLAINE Poem Source Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I am the empire at the end of its decadence LANGUOR, by PAUL VERLAINE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I am the empire as the decadence Last Line: Only a vague ennui's dim, obscure anguish LANGUOR, by PAUL VERLAINE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I am the empire at the end of decadence Last Line: As rest from ennui, an empty spirit's play LAST 'FETE GALANTE', by PAUL VERLAINE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Once and for all, enough! Let's bid adieu Last Line: With howl and hoot, for sodom and gomorrah LAST HOPE, by PAUL VERLAINE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Beside a humble stone, a tree Last Line: Will your love keep my memory fresh? LAST STANZA, by PAUL VERLAINE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Belgium, whom I owe my harsh leisure to Last Line: Open your stolid prison: let me be! LATE WISDOM, by PAUL VERLAINE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Above the roof, the sky expands Last Line: Of long ago. Subject(s): Life; Tears LETTRE (FROM FETES GALANTES), by PAUL VERLAINE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Far from your side removed by thankless Last Line: Be worth the trouble it took to write? Subject(s): Love LETTRE (FROM FETES GALANTES), by PAUL VERLAINE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Far from your side removed by thankless Last Line: Be worth the trouble that it took to write Subject(s): Love LIGHT OF THE MOON, by PAUL VERLAINE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Your soul is a rare landscape Last Line: And jets of water weep with joy, %thin jets of water among marble statues LIKE CITY'S RAIN, MY HEART, by PAUL VERLAINE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: As simply not to know %why my heart suffers so LIMBO, by PAUL VERLAINE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Queen imagination - she %of the outspread wings: her gown Last Line: Now queen madgination reigns %solitary in her glory LISTEN TO THE GENTLE SONG, WHICH WEEPS ONLY TO PLEASE..., by PAUL VERLAINE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Message is clear. Listen to the wise song LOINS, by PAUL VERLAINE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Last night two women came to me, a pair Last Line: Astonished at my utter apathy LONDRES, by PAUL VERLAINE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Un dimanche d'ete quand le soleil s'en mele LOVE CAST DOWN, by PAUL VERLAINE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The wind, one night, laid cupid's statue low Last Line: Flitting above love's bower-blown remains LOVE OVERTURNED, by PAUL VERLAINE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The rude wind the other night cast down poor love LOVER'S HOUR, by PAUL VERLAINE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Behind a film of mist the moon is red Last Line: White venus now comes out, and it is night LOVER, WHEN YOU LOOK FOR LICE, by PAUL VERLAINE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: I'll come out the winner! LOVERS' CHAT, by PAUL VERLAINE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the drear park, beneath a chill, bleak sky Last Line: And night alone heard what they had to say LUST, by PAUL VERLAINE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Flesh, sole fruit tasted of earthly orchards, bitter and sweet fruit that Last Line: Overcome the dreamer, a holy hour or not, what does it matter to your %ecstasy, love and flesh? Subject(s): Lust MANDOLIN, by PAUL VERLAINE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The serenaders and %the beautiful listeners bandy Last Line: Of a moon that is pink and gray, %and the mandolin chatters away %amid the shivers of the breeze MANDOLIN, by PAUL VERLAINE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There, beneath the echoing trees Last Line: Twangs the breezes with its tune MANDOLINS, by PAUL VERLAINE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The strolling minstrels sing Last Line: Strum half-remembered tunes MON REVE FAMILIER, by PAUL VERLAINE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Je fais souvent ce reve etrange et penetrant MOON SHINES WHITE, by PAUL VERLAINE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Made iridescent %by the star... %it's the exquisite hour MOONLIGHT, by PAUL VERLAINE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Your soul is a landscape rare Last Line: To the tall fountains, slender among the statuary Subject(s): Moon; Gardens & Gardens & Gardening; Soul; Love; Landscape MOONLIGHT, by PAUL VERLAINE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Your soil is a chosen landscape Last Line: The great, slim fountains between the statues MOONLIGHT, by PAUL VERLAINE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Your soul is a selected landscape that maskers Last Line: And the fountains weep with ecstasy, %the great svelte fountains amid the marble statues MOONLIGHT, by PAUL VERLAINE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Your soul is like a landscape fantasy Last Line: Slender jet-fountains - sob their ecstasies MORNING STAR, BEFORE YOU PALE, by PAUL VERLAINE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: See? The golden sun comes peeping! MY APOLOGY, by PAUL VERLAINE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I am a strange man, just a criminal Last Line: But, lord, keep me from the foolishness of pride MY FAMILIAR DREAM, by PAUL VERLAINE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Often I have this dream, strange and penetrating Last Line: The tone of dear voices, those that have died Subject(s): Dreams; Love; Nightmares MY FAMILIAR DREAM, by PAUL VERLAINE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I often have this strange and penetrating dream Last Line: For her voice, distant, and calm, and grave, she has %the inflection of beloved voices that have bec MY FAMILIAR DREAM, by PAUL VERLAINE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I often have a strange and penetrating dream Last Line: The inflection of dear voices that have become silent MY FAMILIAR DREAM, by PAUL VERLAINE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Often I dream this poignant fantasy Last Line: The music of dear voices heard no more MYSTCIAL EVENING TWILIGHT, by PAUL VERLAINE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Memory, with the twilight's dusky light Last Line: Memory, with the twilight's dusky light Subject(s): Evening; Memory; Sunset; Twilight MYSTICAL DIALOGUE, by PAUL VERLAINE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My god said: 'love me, son! Dost thou not see' Subject(s): Love MYSTICAL EVENING TWILIGHT, by PAUL VERLAINE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Memory, with the twilight's dusky light MYSTICAL EVENING TWILIGHT, by PAUL VERLAINE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Memory, with the twilight's dusky light Last Line: Memory, with the twilight's dusky light NEVERMORE, by PAUL VERLAINE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Memory, what wilt thou with me? Autumn gales Last Line: "the first-heard ""yes"" from the belovéd lips." Subject(s): Evening; Memory NEVERMORE, by PAUL VERLAINE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Memory, memory, what do you want from me? Last Line: What a charming murmur there rustling slips %the first yes that issues from beloved lips NEVERMORE, by PAUL VERLAINE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Memory, memory, what do you want from me? Last Line: The first yes that issued from those beloved lips NEVERMORE, by PAUL VERLAINE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Come, my poor heart, come, old friend true and tried Last Line: #name? NIGHT SCENE, by PAUL VERLAINE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Night, rain, spires, empty-windowed turrets, jutting Last Line: Glistening athwart the javelins of the rain NIGHT SCENE, by PAUL VERLAINE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Night. Rain. Spires, empty-windowed turrets, jutting Last Line: Glistening athwart the javelins of the rain O HEARKEN THE SO GENTLE PLAINT, by PAUL VERLAINE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: O! Hearken the celestial song Subject(s): Singing & Singers; Soul ODE: TO MY LOVERS, by PAUL VERLAINE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My lovers %(simple chaps) Last Line: And make a feast of shit and cum, of ass and thighs! Subject(s): Homosexuality OH SAD, SAD WAS MY SOUL, by PAUL VERLAINE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: We were exiled far and long ago? Subject(s): Grief; Love – Complaints ON A COPY OF LES FLEURS DU MAL, by PAUL VERLAINE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: These poems, strange, are, to my mind Last Line: If he could speak the angels' tongue ON THE BALCONY, by PAUL VERLAINE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Both watched the uncertain swallows sudden farewell Last Line: The tumbled, odorous bed, wide-opening in the gloom. Subject(s): Flowers; Love; Romance; Roses ON THE GRASS, by PAUL VERLAINE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Marquis, your wig is crooked.' 'mine?' Last Line: Good evening, moon!...' 'fa, mi, re, do...' OTHER, by PAUL VERLAINE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The jail yard: marigolds, like woes Last Line: In peace a-plenty, %relishing our %dolce far niente PANTOMIME, by PAUL VERLAINE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Pierrot - no swain clitander, he Last Line: And voices whispering in her heart PARISIAN SKETCH, by PAUL VERLAINE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lacquering moon PARSIFAL, by PAUL VERLAINE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Parsifal has vanquished the maidens, their sweet chatter and amusing Last Line: Glory and symbol, in which the real blood shines--and, oh those boys' %voices singing in the dome! PARSIFAL, by PAUL VERLAINE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Parsifal has overcome the lemans Last Line: The chalice in which glows the real blood, %-oh, all that children's singing from the minister! PAUL VERLAINE AT THE GRAVE OF LUCIEN LETINOIS, by BIN RAMKE Poem Source First Line: What does the world with its lung of ocean breathe Last Line: He could not buy his bones Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social PAUL VERLAINE IN LINCOLNSHIRE, by JOHN MATTHIAS Poem Source First Line: For a while he had that famous friendship Last Line: Acted on his conscience %like a rudder PAUL VERLAINE VISITS LENIN'S PARK IN HAVANA, CUBA, by VIRGIL SUAREZ Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O great poet, if only your longing could conjure Last Line: Pomp and show. Indigo colors your dying days PAYSAGE EN LINCOLNSHIRE, by PAUL VERLAINE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: L'echelonnement des haies PEACEFUL EYES MY ONLY WEALTH, by PAUL VERLAINE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Orphans; Foundlings PENNY PICTURES, by PAUL VERLAINE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: From all sweet sorrows I put together my magic! Paul, with red Last Line: Credit is in charge of ticket sales. Step right up! PENSIONNAIRES, by PAUL VERLAINE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The one was fifteen years old, the other sixteen Last Line: And, blushing, smiled innocently Subject(s): Gays & Lesbians PENSIONNAIRES, by PAUL VERLAINE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The one was fifteen years old, the other sixteen Last Line: And blushingly, smiled innocently Subject(s): Homosexuality PIANO THAT A FRAIL HAND KISSES GLEAMS, by PAUL VERLAINE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: That towards the slightly opened window will die %above the little garden by and by? PIERROT, by PAUL VERLAINE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: No more the old song's moonlight dreamer he Last Line: That sharp-nosed near-death mask, so ghastly, grim PROLOGUE, by PAUL VERLAINE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Dim-lit, those visions born of night Last Line: Unto the heavens' blue-arching span PUPPETS, by PAUL VERLAINE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Polichinelle and his colleague Last Line: The longings of a heart distressed PUPPETS, by PAUL VERLAINE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Scaramouche and pulchinella Last Line: Singing dull songs with loud distress QUATRAIN, by PAUL VERLAINE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: With neither joy nor penitence Last Line: Comes from a grinning skeleton RECOLLECTION OF MANCHESTER, by PAUL VERLAINE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A glimpse of salford, just a corner, was Last Line: My utter reverence for shakekspeare's verse REFLECTIONS IN THE FOGBOUND RIVULET, by PAUL VERLAINE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Your drowned hopes, wailful, weep their grief! RESIGNATION, by PAUL VERLAINE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Tout enfant, j'allais revant ko-hinnor RESIGNATION, by PAUL VERLAINE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sleep, darksome, deep SAILING, by PAUL VERLAINE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The evening star flickers and glints Last Line: Over the water, dreaming, dark SAINT SET IN HER STAINED-GLASS GLOW, by PAUL VERLAINE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: That carolingian name she bears SEASCAPE, by PAUL VERLAINE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The moon, in mourning, eyes Last Line: Roars with its mighty thunder SEASHELLS, by PAUL VERLAINE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Each seashell in the walls where we Last Line: But one there was that fired my blood SENTIMENAL COLLOQUY, by PAUL VERLAINE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the old, lonely park all white with frost Last Line: And only night can hear the words they say Variant Title(s): Sentimental Dialogue; Sentimental Conversation Subject(s): Love SENTIMENAL COLLOQUY, by PAUL VERLAINE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the old, lonely park all white with frost Subject(s): Love SENTIMENTAL COLLOQUY, by PAUL VERLAINE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the ancient park, solitary and vast Last Line: And only the night heard the words they said SENTIMENTAL COLLOQUY, by PAUL VERLAINE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the deserted old park now frozen fast Last Line: In the wild oatsthus their steps they led, %and night alone heard the words they said SENTIMENTAL CONVERSATION, by PAUL VERLAINE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In a lonely, frozen park Subject(s): Supernatural SENTIMENTAL STROLL, by PAUL VERLAINE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The sunset darted low its splendorous rays Last Line: Great lilies, lying tranquil, on the pond SHEPHERD'S HOUR, by PAUL VERLAINE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The rising moon shines reddish through the mist Last Line: White, venus sallies forth, and it is night SKELETON, by PAUL VERLAINE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Two boisterous ruffians, a besotted pair Last Line: Know with a gesture that they're free to go! SKY IS, ABOVE THE ROOF, by PAUL VERLAINE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Tell, what have you done, you there, %with your youthful years? SO SAD MY HEART, SO SAD IT WAS, by PAUL VERLAINE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: She lets us flee...But not forget.' SONG FOR THE LADIES, by PAUL VERLAINE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They tell me you're a blonde; they say Last Line: Them on my breast), and everywhere SONG OF AUTUMN, by PAUL VERLAINE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When a sighing begins Last Line: A dead leaf. Variant Title(s): Chansons D'automne Subject(s): Death; Grief; Memory; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness SONNET, by PAUL VERLAINE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And I have seen again the marvellous child - it seemed Subject(s): Prayer; Sin; Sonnet (as Literary Form) SONNET, by PAUL VERLAINE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And I have seen again the marvellous child - it seemed Last Line: Beautiful little hands, hands that will close our eyes Subject(s): Mourning SONNET BOITEUX, by PAUL VERLAINE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ah! Vraiment c'est triste, ah! Vraiment ca finit trop mal SONNET TO WEEP OVER, by PAUL VERLAINE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Magistrate more than insolent Last Line: Your weight, your gait...Or how I hate you! SPLEEN, by PAUL VERLAINE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Around were all the roses red Last Line: Of everything alas! Save thee. SPLEEN, by PAUL VERLAINE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The roses were the reddest red Last Line: To everything, alas, but you SPRING, by PAUL VERLAINE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Tender, the young auburn woman Last Line: And the wild sheets. O to your bed! Subject(s): Gays & Lesbians SPRING, by PAUL VERLAINE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Tender, the young auburn woman Last Line: The beautiful pillow that slips so %and the wild sheets. O to your bed! Subject(s): Homosexuality SPRING, by PAUL VERLAINE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The woman, young, red-haired of head Last Line: As dawn's rays the blue heavens do.' STREETS, by PAUL VERLAINE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Let us dance! Last Line: Let us dance! STREETS, by PAUL VERLAINE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Let's dance the jig! %I loved above all her pretty eyes Last Line: And that's the best of my possessions. %let's dance the jig! STREETS: 1, by PAUL VERLAINE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Let's dance a jig! %I loved above all else her eyes Last Line: Of all my wealth, most precious these. %let's dance a jig! STREETS: 2, by PAUL VERLAINE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Strange river, sprung from who knows where! Last Line: The black and yellow bungalows STROLLING, by PAUL VERLAINE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The sky so pale, the trees so spindly, bare Last Line: Purse in a coy and all-forgiving pout SUMMER, by PAUL VERLAINE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And this, the maiden's hushed reply Last Line: Blood-red, blows on the slow night air.' SUNSET, by PAUL VERLAINE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A feeble blade SUNSETS, by PAUL VERLAINE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Dim-dawning glow %of breaking morn Last Line: Sunsets a-stroll %astride the sea SUR L'HERBE, by PAUL VERLAINE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The abbe rambles.' - 'you, marquis' Last Line: "do, mi.""—""the moon!—hey, how d'ye do?" Subject(s): Courtship; Kisses TANTALIZED, by PAUL VERLAINE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The prison wing that I am quartered in Last Line: O trains that can go rolling, rolling free! TEARS FALL IN MY HEART, by PAUL VERLAINE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: My heart is so full if pain Subject(s): Grief; Tears; Love – Absence Of; Pain; Sorrow; Sadness TEARS FALL IN MY HEART, by PAUL VERLAINE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: My heart has such pain! Subject(s): Grief TEARS FALL IN MY HEART, by PAUL VERLAINE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Why my grief is so great Subject(s): Grief THAT FIRM-FLESHED BELLY THAT HAS NEVER BORNE, by PAUL VERLAINE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: #name? THE ART OF POETRY; TO CHARLES MORICE, by PAUL VERLAINE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Music must be paramount Last Line: And everything else is mere literature. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets THE GOODLY SONG, by PAUL VERLAINE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sad and lost I walked where wide Last Line: Us to each other in delight. Subject(s): Hope; Love; Singing & Singers; Voices; Optimism THE NIGHTINGALE, by PAUL VERLAINE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Like a clamorous flock of startled birds Last Line: The quivering tree and the weeping bird. Subject(s): Birds; Nightingales THE SHPEHERD'S HOUR, by PAUL VERLAINE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The moon is red through horizon's fog Last Line: Pale, venus appears, and it is night. Subject(s): Night; Bedtime THE SKY ABOVE THE ROOFING LIES, by PAUL VERLAINE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: With thy lost years? Subject(s): Time; Mortality; God; Sky THE SKY IS UP ABOVE THE ROOF, by PAUL VERLAINE Poet Analysis Poet's Biography THE SONG OF THE INGENUES, by PAUL VERLAINE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We are the ingenues Last Line: Of libertines. Subject(s): Hearts; Ingenuity; Singing & Singers THE SPELL, by PAUL VERLAINE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The keyboard, over which two slim hands float Last Line: A little open on the garden small? Subject(s): Music & Musicians THE WHITE MOON, by PAUL VERLAINE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: It is the exquisite hour Subject(s): Moon; Time; Dreams THERE, by PAUL VERLAINE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Angels! Seul coin luisant dans ce londres du soir THOUSANDS AND THREE, by PAUL VERLAINE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My lovers do not belong to the two rich classes Last Line: Passions of the present, future that grows and unites %cherished ones without number and never enoug Subject(s): Homosexuality THREE YEARS AFTER, by PAUL VERLAINE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I pushed the gate that swung to silently Subject(s): Gardens And Gardening TIME FOR LOVERS, by PAUL VERLAINE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The moon upon the hazy horizon is red Last Line: And the zenith fills with muted lights. %white, venus emerges, and it is night TO HORATIO, by PAUL VERLAINE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My friend, it's no more feathers and guitars Last Line: For once tomorrow cannot be put off! 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 PAUL VERLAINE, by FRANCIS GOLFFING Poem Source First Line: The outraged boulder which the north wind rolled Subject(s): Verlaine, Paul (1844-1896) TRUE, WE DON'T KNOW WHEN TO QUIT, by PAUL VERLAINE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Let's love simply - no designs - %wench mine! TURN, TURN, GOOD WOODEN HORSES, TURN A HUNDRED TIMES..., by PAUL VERLAINE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: The church rings a sad knell. %turn to the joyous sound of the drums! UTTERLY SMALL, UTTERLY LOVELY, by PAUL VERLAINE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography VAST, BLACK LETHARGY, by PAUL VERLAINE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: A hand rocks me to sleep: %no sound, no sound! VERSES TO BE SLANDERED, by PAUL VERLAINE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This evening I bent over you in your sleep. Your whole body slept Last Line: Laugh. Quick, wake up! Tell me, is the soul immortal? WALCOURT, by PAUL VERLAINE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Bricks, tiles...How sweet %such cozy cover Last Line: What pleasures rare, %my wandering jews! WHAT HAVE YOU DONE?, by PAUL VERLAINE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The sky is up above the roof Last Line: The youth away Subject(s): Aging; Life; Mourning; Youth; Bereavement WHEN WE GO - IF I SEE HER YET AGAIN, by PAUL VERLAINE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: God will be there to work the waking WHITE MOON SHINES IN THE WOODS; FROM EACH BOUGH..., by PAUL VERLAINE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Firmament in which the star glimmers--it is the exquisite hour WIND IN THE WOOD, by PAUL VERLAINE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It is the sigh of languid bliss Subject(s): Love WIND WHIPS THROUGH THE BUSHES, GREEN, by PAUL VERLAINE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: My soul, trust in his glorydom! WINTER DREAM, by PAUL VERLAINE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: During winter we will ride in a little red carriage Last Line: What a marvelous ride! WITH MUTED STRINGS, by PAUL VERLAINE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Calm in the twilight that %the high branches make above Last Line: Falls from the black oaks, voice fo our hopelessness, %the nightingale will sing WOMAN AND CAT, by PAUL VERLAINE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They were just playing, lady and cat Last Line: Four dazzling points of phosphor gleamed Subject(s): Animals; Cats; Crime & Criminals; Murder; Nails (body) WOMAN AND CAT, by PAUL VERLAINE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They were just playing, lady and cat Last Line: Four dazzling points of phosphor gleamed Subject(s): Animals; Cats WOMAN AND CAT, by PAUL VERLAINE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It was a joy to watch as she Last Line: Gleaming four orbs of phosphorescence WOMEN'S LOVELINESS, by PAUL VERLAINE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Women's loveliness, their frailty, and those pale hands Last Line: And what in truth, remains, when death has come our way? Subject(s): Women; Beauty; Love WOMEN'S LOVELINESS, by PAUL VERLAINE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Woman's loveliness, their frailty, and those pale hands WOMEN'S LOVELINESS, by PAUL VERLAINE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Women's loveliness, their frailty, and those pale hands Last Line: And what, in truth, remains, when death has come our way Subject(s): Love YES, DESPITE YOUR CRUEL EXCESS, by PAUL VERLAINE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: That false air I relish, quite, %love me for my artlessness YOU BELIEVE IN SUPERSTITIONS, by PAUL VERLAINE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: That, by everything, I vow %that you are all I live for now YOU'VE OFTEN BEEN UNKIND, by PAUL VERLAINE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Bound to love me a bit, %the way we love a toy YOUNG FOOLS, by PAUL VERLAINE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: High-heels were struggling with a full-length dress Last Line: That ever since our stunned soul has been trembling YOUNGLINGS, by PAUL VERLAINE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: High heels in a struggle with a long skirt Last Line: That our souls forever hold their eager qualms. Subject(s): Youth YOUR VOICE WAS DEEP AND LOW, by PAUL VERLAINE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Appears asleep, but lies %in quiet contemplation |
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