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Tag Archives: Paul Verlaine
Using Poetry to Stand Up to Tyranny
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Autumn’s Sobbing Violins Wound My Heart
Paul Verlaine’s “Autumn Song” is a beautiful hymn to melancholy.
A Poem for a Dark, Dismal Day
Paul Verlaine’s “Tears Fall in My Heart” is a good poem for a rainy day.
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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