Arthur Rimbaud Poems

While the red-stained mouths of machine guns ring
Across the infinite expanse of day;
While red or green, before their posturing King,
The massed battalions break and melt away;
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I

On the calm black water where the stars are sleeping
White Ophelia floats like a great lily ;
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Reality being too thorny for my great personality.
--I found myself nevertheless at my lady's,
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On the black gallows, one-armed friend,
The paladins are dancing, dancing
The lean, the devil's paladins
The skeletons of Saladins.
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It has been found again.
What ? - Eternity.
It is the sea fled away
With the sun.
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And so the Mother, shutting up the duty book,
Went, proud and satisfied. She did not see the look
In the blue eyes, or how with secret loathing wild,
Beneath the prominent brow, a soul raged in her child.
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As soon as the idea of the Deluge had subsided,
A hare stopped in the clover and swaying flowerbells,
and said a prayer to the rainbow,
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O cowards! There she is!
Pile out into the stations!
The sun with its fiery lungs blew clear
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On a brilliant morning, in a city of lovely people,
A wonderful man and a wonderful woman
Were shouting out loud, in the middle of town:
'Oh, my friends... I wanter her to be queen! '
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My sad heart slobbers at the poop
my heart covered with tobacco-spit
They spew streams of soup at it
My sad heart drools at the poop
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