Les Phares (the Beacons) Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB BABA ACAC AAAA DADA ACAC AAAA ACAB AEAE AAAA FCFC A AGHH BACH IADA DJAA ADDA AACA AADA ADAB AAAE AAAA AHKH B A BHBH CBCB BABA AAAA DADA ADAD CACA LBLB AAAA BCBC ECEC M A DNDN AOAO MAPA CACA CACA ACAC AQAQ DBDB ACRubens fleuve d'oubli jardin de la paresse | A |
Oreiller de chair fra che o l'on ne peut aimer | B |
Mais o la vie afflue et s'agite sans cesse | A |
Comme l'air dans le ciel et la mer dans la mer | B |
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L onard de Vinci miroir profond et sombre | B |
O des anges charmants avec un doux souris | A |
Tout charg de myst re apparaissent l'ombre | B |
Des glaciers et des pins qui ferment leur pays | A |
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Rembrandt triste h pital tout rempli de murmures | A |
Et d'un grand crucifix d cor seulement | C |
O la pri re en pleurs s'exhale des ordures | A |
Et d'un rayon d'hiver travers brusquement | C |
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Michel Ange lieu vague o l'on voit des Hercules | A |
Se m ler des Christs et se lever tout droits | A |
Des fant mes puissants qui dans les cr puscules | A |
D chirent leur suaire en tirant leurs doigts | A |
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Col res de boxeur impudences de faune | D |
Toi qui sus ramasser la beaut des goujats | A |
Grand coeur gonfl d'orgueil homme d bile et jaune | D |
Puget m lancolique empereur des for ats | A |
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Watteau ce carnaval o bien des coeurs illustres | A |
Comme des papillons errent en flamboyant | C |
D cors frais et l gers clair s par des lustres | A |
Qui versent la folie ce bal tournoyant | C |
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Goya cauchemar plein de choses inconnues | A |
De foetus qu'on fait cuire au milieu des sabbats | A |
De vieilles au miroir et d'enfants toutes nues | A |
Pour tenter les d mons ajustant bien leurs bas | A |
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Delacroix lac de sang hant des mauvais anges | A |
Ombrag par un bois de sapins toujours vert | C |
O sous un ciel chagrin des fanfares tranges | A |
Passent comme un soupir touff de Weber | B |
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Ces mal dictions ces blasph mes ces plaintes | A |
Ces extases ces cris ces pleurs ces Te Deum | E |
Sont un cho redit par mille labyrinthes | A |
C'est pour les coeurs mortels un divin opium | E |
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C'est un cri r p t par mille sentinelles | A |
Un ordre renvoy par mille porte voix | A |
C'est un phare allum sur mille citadelles | A |
Un appel de chasseurs perdus dans les grands bois | A |
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Car c'est vraiment Seigneur le meilleur t moignage | F |
Que nous puissions donner de notre dignit | C |
Que cet ardent sanglot qui roule d' ge en ge | F |
Et vient mourir au bord de votre ternit | C |
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The Beacons | A |
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Rubens river of oblivion garden of indolence | A |
Pillow of cool flesh where one cannot love | G |
But where life moves and whirls incessantly | H |
Like the air in the sky and the tide in the sea | H |
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Leonardo dark unfathomable mirror | B |
In which charming angels with sweet smiles | A |
Full of mystery appear in the shadow | C |
Of the glaciers and pines that enclose their country | H |
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Rembrandt gloomy hospital filled with murmuring | I |
Ornamented only with a large crucifix | A |
Lit for a moment by a wintry sun | D |
Where from rot and ordure rise tearful prayers | A |
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Angelo shadowy place where Hercules' are seen | D |
Mingling with Christs and rising straight up | J |
Powerful phantoms which in the twilights | A |
Rend their winding sheets with outstretched fingers | A |
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Boxer's wrath shamelessness of Fauns you whose genius | A |
Showed to us the beauty in a villain | D |
Great heart filled with pride sickly yellow man | D |
Puget melancholy emperor of galley slaves | A |
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Watteau carnival where the loves of many famous hearts | A |
Flutter capriciously like butterflies with gaudy wings | A |
Cool airy settings where the candelabras' light | C |
Touches with madness the couples whirling in the dance | A |
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Goya nightmare full of unknown things | A |
Of fetuses roasted in the midst of witches' sabbaths | A |
Of old women at the mirror and of nude children | D |
Tightening their hose to tempt the demons | A |
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Delacroix lake of blood haunted by bad angels | A |
Shaded by a wood of fir trees ever green | D |
Where under a gloomy sky strange fanfares | A |
Pass like a stifled sigh from Weber | B |
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These curses these blasphemies these lamentations | A |
These Te Deums these ecstasies these cries these tears | A |
Are an echo repeated by a thousand labyrinths | A |
They are for mortal hearts a divine opium | E |
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They are a cry passed on by a thousand sentinels | A |
An order re echoed through a thousand megaphones | A |
They are a beacon lighted on a thousand citadels | A |
A call from hunters lost deep in the woods | A |
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For truly Lord the clearest proofs | A |
That we can give of our nobility | H |
Are these impassioned sobs that through the ages roll | K |
And die away upon the shore of your Eternity | H |
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Translated by William Aggeler | B |
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The Beacons | A |
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Rubens the grove of case Nepenthe's river | B |
Couch of cool flesh where Love may never be | H |
But where life ever flows and seems to quiver | B |
As air in heaven or in the sea the sea | H |
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Da Vinci dusky mirror and profound | C |
Where angels smiling mystery appear | B |
Shaded by pines and glaciers that surround | C |
And seem to shut their country in the rear | B |
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Rembrandt sad hospital of murmurs where | B |
Adorned alone by one great crucifix | A |
From offal heaps exhales the weeping prayer | B |
That winter shoots a sunbeam to transfix | A |
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Vague region Michelangelo where Titans | A |
Are mixed with Christs and strong ghosts rise in crowds | A |
To stand bolt upright in the gloom that lightens | A |
With gristly talons tearing through their shrouds | A |
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Rage of the boxer mischief of the faun | D |
Extracting beauty out of blackguards' looks | A |
The heart how proud the man how pinched and drawn | D |
Puget the mournful emperor of crooks | A |
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Watteau the carnival where famous hearts | A |
Go flitting by like butterflies that burn | D |
While through gay scenes each chandelier imparts | A |
A madness to the dancers as they turn | D |
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Goya's a nightmare full of things unguessed | C |
Of foeti stewed on nights of witches' revels | A |
Crones ogle mirrors children scarcely dressed | C |
Adjust their hose to tantalise the devils | A |
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A lake of gore where fallen angels dwell | L |
Is Delacroix by firwoods ever fair | B |
Where under fretful skies strange fanfares swell | L |
Like Weber's sighs and heartbeats in the air | B |
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These curses blasphemies and lamentations | A |
These ecstasies tears cries and soaring psalms | A |
Through endless mazes their reverberations | A |
Bring to our mortal hearts divinest balms | A |
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A thousand sentinels repeat the cry | B |
A thousand trumpets echo Beacon tossed | C |
A thousand summits flare it through the sky | B |
A call of hunters in the jungle lost | C |
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And certainly this is the most sublime | E |
Proof of our worth and value Oh Divinity | C |
That this great sob rolls on through ageless time | E |
To die upon the shores of your infinity | C |
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Translated by Roy Campbell | M |
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Les Phares | A |
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Rubens great river of oblivion | D |
garden of ease cool flesh no lovers crave | N |
but where the floods of life unceasing run | D |
like wind on wind or wave on ocean wave | N |
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Da Vinci deep and sombre looking glass | A |
enchanting angels haunt with subtle smile | O |
all mystery charged while shadows dark amass | A |
and pines and ice cliffs bound their prison isle | O |
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Rembrandt a piteous murmuring hospital | M |
where ordure streams in tears and orisons | A |
stripped to the crucifix on one bare wall | P |
illumed by one chill dart from wintry suns | A |
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vast desert void o Michael Angelo | C |
where TItans mix with Christs and twilight clouds | A |
where mighty spectres rise up stark and slow | C |
whose opening fingers rend their mouldered shrouds | A |
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the rage of boxers and the satyrs' lust | C |
thou who hast found a grace in toiling knaves | A |
great heart in a poor bilious body thrust | C |
Puget the gloomy king of galley slaves | A |
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Watteau bright carnival where courtly pairs | A |
like butterflies in satin flit about | C |
flaming in misty groves 'neath resin flares | A |
which pour their madness on the whirling rout | C |
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Goya who in a nightmare horde unfurls | A |
hags boiling foetuses in witches' milk | Q |
beldames before the glass and naked girls | A |
for demon lovers tightening hose of silk | Q |
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and Delacroix dark lake of blood forlorn | D |
'mid fadeless firs where evil angels fare | B |
a sullen sky wherefrom a faery horn | D |
floats faint as Oberon's horn through muffling air | B |
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these curses blasphemies and these laments | A |
these ecstasies cries tears hossanas fro | C |
Charles Baudelaire
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