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Paul Verlaine's Poetry, by title

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  • 'Tis The Feast Of Corn
    'Tis the feast of corn, 'tis the feast of bread,
    On the dear scene returned to, witnessed again!
    20 lines, 1 comment
  • A La Promenade
    The milky sky, the hazy, slender trees,
    Seem smiling on the light costumes we wear,--
    20 lines, 1 comment
  • A Une Femme
    To you these lines for the consoling grace
    Of your great eyes wherein a soft dream shines,
    14 lines
  • Apres Trois Ans
    When I had pushed the narrow garden-door,
    Once more I stood within the green retreat;
    16 lines
  • Ariettes Oubliees
    It weeps in my heart
    As it rains on the town.
    39 lines, 4 comments
  • Autumn Song
    With long sobs
    the violin-throbs
    42 lines, 4 comments
  • Before Your Light Quite Fail
    Before your light quite fail,
    Already paling star,
    20 lines
  • Birds In The Night
    You were not over-patient with me, dear;
    This want of patience one must rightly rate:
    90 lines
  • Bruxelles
    Hills and fences hurry by
    Blent in greenish-rosy flight,
    13 lines
  • Chanson D'Automne
    Leaf-strewing gales
    Utter low wails
    19 lines
  • Clair De Lune
    Your soul is as a moonlit landscape fair,
        Peopled with maskers delicate and dim,
    13 lines, 65,535 comments
  • Colloque Sentimental
    In the deserted park, silent and vast,
    Erewhile two shadowy glimmering figures passed.
    22 lines
  • En Sourdine
    Tranquil in the twilight dense
    By the spreading branches made,
    20 lines
  • Epilogue
    The sun, less hot, looks from a sky more clear;
    The roses in their sleepy loveliness
    104 lines
  • Give Ear Unto The Gentle Lay
    Give ear unto the gentle lay
    That's only sad that it may please;
    28 lines
  • Green
    See, blossoms, branches, fruit, leaves I have brought,
    And then my heart that for you only sighs;
    12 lines
  • Heavy, My Despair
    Oh, heavy, heavy my despair,
    Because, because of One so fair.
    16 lines
  • Hope Shines
    Hope shines--as in a stable a wisp of straw.
    Fear not the wasp drunk with his crazy flight!
    14 lines
  • I've Seen Again The One Child
    I've seen again the One child: verily,
    I felt the last wound open in my breast,
    14 lines
  • Il Bacio
    Kiss! Hollyhock in Love's luxuriant close!
      Brisk music played on pearly little keys,
    18 lines
  • Il Pleure dans mon Coeur
    Il pleure dans mon coeur
    Comme il pleut sur la ville.
    42 lines, 2 comments
  • Impression Fausse
    Dame mouse patters
    Black against the shadow grey;
    28 lines
  • It Is You
    It is you, it is you, poor better thoughts!
    The needful hope, shame for the ancient blots,
    22 lines
  • It Rains in My Heart (Il pleure dans mon coeur)
    It rains in my heart
    As it rains on the town,
    44 lines
  • It Shall Be, Then, Upon A Summer's Day
    It shall be, then, upon a summer's day:
      The sun, my joy's accomplice, bright shall shine,
    13 lines
  • It Weeps In My Heart
    It weeps in my heart
    As it rains on the town.
    18 lines
  • Jadis - Prologue
    Off, be off, now, graceless pack:
    Get you gone, lost children mine:
    23 lines
  • L' Allee
    Powdered and rouged as in the sheepcotes' day,
    Fragile 'mid her enormous ribbon bows,
    13 lines
  • L'amour Par Terre
    The wind the other night blew down the Love
      That in the dimmest corner of the park
    18 lines
  • Langueur
    I am the Empire in the last of its decline,
    That sees the tall, fair-haired Barbarians pass,--the while
    16 lines
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