Sleep, darksome, deep,
Doth on me fall:
Vain hopes all, sleep,
Sleep, yearnings all!

Lo, I grow blind!
Lo, right and wrong
Fade to my mind….
O sorry song!

A cradle, I,
Rocked in a grave:
Speak low, pass by,
Silence I crave!

(C) Paul Verlaine
01/01/2000


Best Poems of Paul Verlaine

• Mon Reve Familier [english]
• It Weeps In My Heart
• Langueur [english]
• Green
• Il Bacio
• En Sourdine
• A Poor Young Shepherd
• Cauchemar
• Birds In The Night
• Marine
• Il Bacio [english]
• Nocturne Parisien
• Langueur
• En Bateau
• Amoureuse Du Diable
• What Sayst Thou, Traveller, Of All Thou Sawst Afar?
• Before Your Light Quite Fail
• Colloque Sentimental
• Beams
• A Horatio
• çavitri