"Alas, the flesh is weary, and I've read all the books." Stéphane Mallarmé (1842-1898), French symbolist poet. Poésies (1887). Brise Marine, st. 1, Mallarmé: The Poems, trans. by and ed. Keith Bosley (1977). |
"Will lovely, lively, virginal today
Shatter for us with a wing's drunken blow
This hard, forgotten lake haunted in snow
By the sheer ice of flocks not flown away!" Stéphane Mallarmé (1842-1898), French symbolist poet. Poésies (1887). Plusieurs Sonnets, no. 2, st. 1, Mallarmé: The Poems, trans. by and ed. Keith Bosley (1977). |
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