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Richard Wilbur: “Some Words Inside of Words (for children and others)”
Posted by matt on 9 January 2010
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Guillaume Apollinaire: “Le Pont Mirabeau / The Mirabeau Bridge”
Posted by matt on 26 August 2008
LE PONT MIRABEAU
Sous le pont Mirabeau coule la Seine
Et nos amours
Faut-il qu’il m’en souvienne
La joie venait toujours après la peine
Vienne la nuit sonne l’heure
Les jours s’en vont je demeure
Les mains dans les mains restons face à face
Tandis que sous
Le pont de nos bras passe
Des éternels regards l’onde si lasse
Vienne la nuit sonne l’heure
Les jours s’en vont je demeure
L’amour s’en va comme cette eau courante
L’amour s’en va
Comme la vie est lente
Et comme l’Espérance est violente
Vienne la nuit sonne l’heure
Les jours s’en vont je demeure
Passent les jours et passent les semaines
Ni temps passé
Ni les amours reviennent
Sous le pont Mirabeau coule la Seine
Vienne la nuit sonne l’heure
Les jours s’en vont je demeure
–Guillaume Apollinaire (b. 26 August 1880)
Listen to Apollonaire read his poem in this 1913 recording, thanks to uBuweb (opens in new window)…
Photo: Vienne la nuit sonne l’heure by нσвσ
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Richard Wilbur: “The Sirens”
Posted by matt on 11 December 2007
I never knew the road
From which the whole earth didn’t call away,
With wild birds rounding the hill crowns,
Haling out of the heart an old dismay,
Or the shore somewhere pounding its slow code,
Or low-lighted towns
Seeming to tell me, stay.
Lands I have never seen
And shall not see, loves I will not forget,
All I have missed, or slighted, or foregone
Call to me now. And weaken me. And yet
I would not walk a road without a scene.
I listen going on,
The richer for regret.
Photo credit: Cleaving the Earth by Stuck in Customs
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