Chanson D'Automne Poem by Paul Verlaine

Chanson D'Automne



Leaf-strewing gales
Utter low wails
Like violins,--
Till on my soul
Their creeping dole
Stealthily wins....

Days long gone by!
In such hour, I,
Choking and pale,
Call you to mind,--
Then like the wind
Weep I and wail.

And, as by wind
Harsh and unkind,
Driven by grief,
Go I, here, there,
Recking not where,
Like the dead leaf.

COMMENTS OF THE POEM
B.J.Burden 10 September 2018

Lousy translation. James Elroy Flecker's version is much better.

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Brian Burden 10 September 2018

Terrible translation. The best one I know is a paraphrase by James Elroy Flecker in a poem about his childhood on Leckhampton Hill

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