Puisque ma bouche a rencontré
Sa bouche, il faut me taire. Trêve
Aux mots creux. Je ne montrerai
Rien qui puisse trahir mon rêve.
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Il faut que je ne dise rien
De l’odeur de sa chevelure,
De son sourire aérien,
Des bravoures de son allure,
Rien des yeux aux regards troublants,
Persuasifs,...
“it was our wedding-day
A month ago,” dear heart, I hear you say.
If months, or years, or ages since have passed,
I know not: I have ceased to question Time.
I only know that once there pealed a chime
Of joyous bells, and then I held you fast,
And all stood back, and none my right denied,
And forth we walked: the world was free and wide...
A Poet loved a Star,
And to it whispered nightly,
“Being so fair, why art thou, love, so far?
Or why so coldly shine, who shin’st so brightly?
O Beauty wooed and unpossest!
O, might I to this beating breast
But clasp thee once and then die blest!”
That Star her Poet’s love,
So wildly warm, made human;
And leaving, for...
A la mémoire de Laura Lopez.
On se souvient de la chapelle des Goyaves
Où dorment deux mille dimanches des Antilles,
De la viduité harmonieuse du havre,
Et de la musique, du temps vieillot des résilles...
- Colonie d'où l'aventurier revenait pauvre ! -
Les enfants demi-nus jouaient, et leurs cris
Sourdaient, familiers comme les bougainvilliers...
Peril as a Possesssion
'Tis Good to hear
Danger disintegrates Satiety
There's Basis there —
Begets an awe
That searches Human Nature's creases
As clean as Fire.
