Classic and Contemporary Poetry
APOTHEOSIS, by JULES LAFORGUE Poet's Biography First Line: In all senses, forever, the silence palpitates Last Line: Long he dreams there, then turns to a sonnet to compose it. | ||||||||
In all senses, forever, the silence palpitates With clusters of gold stars interweaving their rounds. One might take them for gardens sanded with diamonds, But each in desolation, very solitary, scintillates. Now far down, in this corner unknown which vibrates With a furrow of rubies in its melancholy bounds, One spark with a twinkle of tenderness astounds: A patriarch guiding his family with lights. His family: a swarm of heavy globes; each a star is. And on one, it is Earth, a yellow point, Paris, Where a lamp is suspended and, on watch, a poor devil: In the universal order frail, unique human marvel. He himself is its mirror of a day and he knows it. Long he dreams there, then turns to a sonnet to compose it. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...ANOTHER BOOK by JULES LAFORGUE ANOTHER LAMENT OF LORD PIERROT by JULES LAFORGUE COMPLAINT OF FORGETTING THE DEAD by JULES LAFORGUE COMPLAINT OF THE LAD WITH HEART-DISEASE by JULES LAFORGUE DIALOGUE BEFORE SUNRISE by JULES LAFORGUE FOR THE BOOK OF LOVE by JULES LAFORGUE GULF LIGHTNING by JULES LAFORGUE LAMENT OF THE ORGANIST OF NOTRE-DAME DE NICE by JULES LAFORGUE LAMENT OF THE PIANOS ... OVERHEARD IN WELL-TO-DO QUARTERS by JULES LAFORGUE LAMENT OF THIS GOOD MOON by JULES LAFORGUE |
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