Poems

One O’Clock in the Morning At last! I am alone! Nothing can be heard but the rumbling of a few belated and weary cabs. For a […]

Overcast Are they blue, gray or green? Mysterious eyes (as if in fact you were looking through a mist) in alternation tender, dreamy, grim to match […]

Sorrows of the Moon Tonight the moon dreams in a deeper languidness, And, like a beauty on her cushions, lies at rest; While drifting off to […]

Spleen I am like the king of a rainy country Rich, and yet powerless, young and yet most old Who, distrustful of the bows his tutors […]

Spleen (IV) Quand le ciel bas et lourd pèse comme un couvercle Sur l’esprit gémissant en proie aux longs ennuis, Et que de l’horizon embrassant tout […]

The Albatross Often to pass the time on board, the crew will catch an albatross, one of those big birds which nonchalantly chaperon a ship across […]

The Bad Monk On the great walls of ancient cloisters were nailed Murals displaying Truth the saint, Whose effect, reheating the pious entrails Brought to an […]

The Blessing When, by a decree of the sovereign power, The poet makes his appearance in a bored world, With fists clenched at the horror, his […]

The Carcass Remember that object we saw, dear soul, In the sweetness of a summer morn: At a bend of the path a loathsome carrion On […]

The End of the Day In all its raucous impudence Life writhes, cavorts in pallid light, With little cause or consequence; And when, with darkling skies, […]