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The Rooks
The Rooks
Lord, when the meadowland is cold,
and when in the downcast hamlets the long Angeluses are silent..
down on Nature barren of flowers let
…
The Seekers Of Lice
The Seekers Of Lice
When the child's forehead, full of red torments,
Implores the white swarm of indistinct dreams,
There come near his bed two tall char…
The Orphans' New Year's Gift
The Orphans' New Year's Gift
The room is full of shadow; you can hear, indistinctly, the sad soft whispering of two
children.
Their foreheads lean forwar…
The Parisian Orgy
The Parisian Orgy
O cowards! There she is!
Pile out into the stations!
The sun with its fiery lungs blew clear
the boulevards that, one evening,
The Customs Men
The Customs Men
Those who say Gord Struth; those who say Swelp Me pensioned
soldiers and sailors, the wreckage of Empire are
nothing, nothing at all, com…
The Famous Victory Of Saarbrucken
The Famous Victory Of Saarbrucken
At centre, the Emperor, blue-yellow, in apotheosis,
Gallops off, ramrod straight, on his fine gee-gee,
Very happy – sin…
The Bridges
The Bridges
Skies the gray of crystal.
A strange design of bridges,
some straight, some arched,
others descending at oblique angles to the first; <…
The Accursed Cherub
The Accursed Cherub
Bluish roofs and white doors
As on nocturnal Sundays,
At the town's end,
the road without Sound is white,
and it is night…
Tartufe's Punishment
Tartufe's Punishment
Raking, raking, his amorous thoughts
underneath his chaste robe of black,
happy, his hand gloved,
one day as he went along, fe…
Sun And Flesh (Credo In Unam)
Sun And Flesh (Credo In Unam)
Birth of Venus
I
The Sun, the hearth of affection and life,
Pours burning love on the delighted earth,
And when…
Stages (Scenes)
Stages (Scenes)
Ancient Comedy pursues its harmonies and divides its Idylls:
Raised platforms along the boulevards.
A long wooden pier the length of a ro…
Stolen Heart
Stolen Heart
My sad heart slobbers at the poop
my heart covered with tobacco-spit
They spew streams of soup at it
My sad heart drools at the poop <…
Shame
Shame
So long as the blade has not
Cut off that brain,
That white, green and fatty parcel,
Whose steam is never fresh,
Ah ! He, should …
Song Of The Highest Tower
Song Of The Highest Tower
Idle youth
Enslaved to everything,
By being too sensitive
I have wasted my life.
Ah ! Let the time come
When …
Sensation
Sensation
In the blue summer evenings, I will go along the paths,
And walk over the short grass, as I am pricked by the wheat:
Daydreaming I will f…
Ruts
Ruts
To the right the summer dawn
wakes the leaves and the mists
and the noises in this corner of the park,
and the left-hand banks
hol…
Poets At Seven Years
Poets At Seven Years
And the mother, closing the work-book
Went off, proud, satisfied, not seeing,
In the blue eyes, under the lumpy brow,
The soul…
Romance
Romance
When you are seventeen you aren't really serious.
-One fine evening, you've had enough of beer and lemonade,
And the rowdy cafes with…
People In Church
People In Church
Penned between oaken pews,
in corners of the church which their breath stinkingly warms,
all their eyes on the chancel dripping with gol…
Parisian War Song
Parisian War Song
Spring is evidently here;
for the ascent of Thiers
and Picard from the green Estates lays
its splendours wide open! O May!
…
Ophelia
Ophelia
I
On the calm black water where the stars are sleeping
White Ophelia floats like a great lily ;
Floats very slowly, lying in he…
O Seasons, O Chateaux
O Seasons, O Chateaux
1. (From: Fetes de la Patience)
O seasons, O chateaux,
Where is the flawless soul?
O seasons, O chateaux,
The mag…
My Little Lovelies
My Little Lovelies
A tearful tincture washes
Cabbage-green skies;
Beneath the dribbling bushes
Your raincoats lie;
Pale white in …
Nina's Reply (Les Reparties De Nina)
Nina's Reply (Les Reparties De Nina)
HE - Your breast on my breast,
Eh ? We could go,
With our nostrils full of air,
Into the cool light