He started writing poetry at an early age and his first collection, Poemes saturniens was published in 1867. search. In One Hundred And One Poems By Paul Verlaine the reader is introduced to the original French texts as well as to the English translations. Paul Marie Verlaine is a French poet, one of the originators of literary impressionism and symbolism. Norman Shapiro does an excellent job at translating the sonorous tonalities of Verlaine's native vernacular. More Paul Verlaine > sign up for poem-a-day Receive a new poem in your inbox daily. ', 'Your soul is a chosen landscape Where charming masked and costumed figures go Playing the lute and dancing and almost Sad beneath their fantastic disguises. .It rains in my heartAs it rains on the townWhat languor so dark. Paul Verlaine and Arthur Rimbaud are two French poets who have made a huge contribution to the world literature. Tears are shed in my heart like the rain on the town. Verlaine was a very controversial figure in his time but his poems (in the original text) are beautiful - also in terms of meter, rhyme, alliteration of the words (in French). Paul Verlaine was born on March 30, 1844 and became one of the greatest and most popular of French poets. It Rains In My Heart (Il Pleure Dans Mon Coeur) by Paul Verlaine. Poems. In Verlaine’s lyric, the surrounding world, its phenomena including nature are not real and are just some signals of internal state of mind. The French poet, Symbolist leader, and Decadent Paul-Marie Verlaine was born on March 30, 1844. Born in Metz, he was educated in Paris and began a post in the civil service. Though by no means an expert on the poems of Paul Verlaine, I like his generous and lush adjectives and descriptions of insights into love and nature. Find and share the perfect poems. Their relationship is called passionate, disastrous, “wrong.” Paul Verlaine was a man of subtle spiritual organization, easily succumbed to someone else’s influence, and Rimbaud was called a young genius scoundrel. The friendship and respect between Verlaine and Arthur Rombard can be understood as their love for language surpasses differences in style and technique. Paul Verlaine Poems and Poetry... French Symbolists... Excerpts including the most important works of one of the most influential poets of France... Paul Verlaine Poems and Poetry. I didn't really bother reading them in English as I worried my full appreciation of his poems would be diluted or lost in translation. Page 49 quotes from Paul Verlaine: 'Il pleure dans mon coeur Comme il pleut sur la ville.