Tag Archives: Paul Verlaine

Autumn’s Sobbing Violins Wound My Heart

Paul Verlaine’s “Autumn Song” is a beautiful hymn to melancholy.

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A Poem for a Dark, Dismal Day

Paul Verlaine’s “Tears Fall in My Heart” is a good poem for a rainy day.

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The Violins of Autumn

I still remember memorizing, as a child in a French school, Paul Verlaine’s deliciously sad “Chanson d’automne.”

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