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poems of Paul Verlaine ✨

Ariette
Il pleure dans mon coeur
Comme il pleut sur la ville.
Quelle est cette langueur
Qui pénètre mon coeur?
O bruit doux de la pluie
Par terre et sur les toits!
Pour un coeur qui s'ennuie,
O le chant de la pluie!
Il pleure sans raison
Dans ce coeur qui s'écoeure.
Quoi! nulle trahison?
Ce deuil est sans raison.
C'est bien la pire peine
De ne savoir pourquoi,
Sans amour et sans haine,
Mon coeur a tant de peine.

Translation

Ariette

It is raining gently over the city.
(Arthur Rimbaud)
He is crying in my heart
As it rains over the town.
What is this languor
Who penetrates my heart?
Oh sweet sound of rain
Ground and on rooftops!
For a heart that is bored,
O the song of the rain!
He cries for no reason
In this sickening heart.
What! no treason?
This mourning is without reason.
It's the worst sentence
To not know why,
Without love and without hatred,
My heart hurts so much.

Chanson D’Automne

Les sanglots longs
Des violons
De l’automne
Blessent mon cœur
D’une langueur
Monotone.

Tout suffocant
Et blême, quand
Sonne l’heure,
Je me souviens
Des jours anciens
Et je pleure;

Et je m’en vais
Au vent mauvais
Qui m’emporte
Deçà, delà,
Pareil à la
Feuille morte.

Translation

Autumn song
The long sobs
Violins
Of autumn
Hurt my heart
Languidly
Monotone.
All suffocating
And pale when
Strikes the hour,
I remember
Old days
And I cry;
And I'm leaving
In the bad wind
Who takes me away
Here, beyond,
Same as the
Dead leaf.

paul verlaine has a lot of erotic poems, but i chose the "serious" part of his poetry to share, the main characteristics of symbolist poetry, such as the importance of musicality, the taste for the preciousness of words, the idea that poetry should suggest - ideas, images, sensations - instead of declaring, etc. They are all characteristics that guide much of Verlaine's poetry!

The melodic and romantic “Autumn Song” is undoubtedly his most famous and musicized poem in more than one voice (from Charles Trenet and Leo Ferré to a contemporary shoegaze band called Les Discrets), I already mentioned the band in another post, in my favorite artists and bands.

it's a song to feel and analyze its lyrics and its meaning, it's not just to listen vaguely, at least for me, I put feeling and depth in the things I do, you should try ✨💚🍀

Les Discrets - Chanson D'automne

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