La magie de l’enfant de lune dévoile toute sa puissance, et l’amour absolu brûle jour et nuit, brisant tous les tabous. CONTINUE READING / CONTINUER LA LECTURE…
Les fleurs nues de Russie et d’Ukraine
Category: Poetry
Love Lives Beyond the Tomb, by John Clare
Today, I present another beautiful little piece from the collection Asylum Poems that John Clare wrote while he was interned in a lunatic asylum. It is a message of hope, he tells us that love is everlasting, it “lives beyond the tomb, the earth, the flowers, and dew,” and it can be found with “the fond, the faithful, young and true.” The genuine heart-love of a young maiden brings the poet eternal happiness. The secret of a fruitful life is a young heart full of love. CONTINUE READING / CONTINUER LA LECTURE…
Plus belle, par Jean Aicard
Voici un beau poème d’amour, que j’ai choisi dans Le Livre d’Heures de l’Amour. L’auteur s’adresse à sa bien-aimée, qui reste insensible à ses sentiments et lui semble d’une beauté orgueilleuse. Il l’enjoint de se transformer de bien-aimée en amoureuse, elle en deviendrait plus heureuse, et cela ne pourrait qu’accroître sa beauté. CONTINUE READING / CONTINUER LA LECTURE…
Ad Domnulam Suam, by Ernest Dowson
This beautiful poem, whose title means “to his little lady” (or “mistress”), expresses the poet’s love for a young girl, and at the same time a desire to stop before this love could grow too strong. Anyway, the girl will soon leave the “fairy-land” of childhood and grow into adulthood, and this could spell the end of that love’s magic. CONTINUE READING / CONTINUER LA LECTURE…
Trois ans de liberté
Poets and Lovers vit depuis trois ans, et c’est un petit miracle. Partout se met en place une censure « préventive » d’Internet, où divers opérateurs invoquent toutes sortes de raisons pour bloquer des sites, tandis que des lobbies réactionnaires avides de pouvoir et de subsides publics, sous couvert de « protection des enfants », exigent des opérateurs la censure de divers contenus qu’ils qualifient arbitrairement de « maltraitance d’enfants ».
Dans un climat de haine, de chauvinisme et de militarisme, Poets and Lovers continuera à défendre la poésie, la liberté et l’amour. C’est la seule voie pour faire apparaître le merveilleux dans nos existences. CONTINUE READING / CONTINUER LA LECTURE…
A Love Letter
All the Year Round was a weekly literary magazine founded and owned by Charles Dickens, published between 1859 and 1895 throughout the United Kingdom. It was edited by Dickens until shortly before his death in 1870, and then his eldest son Charles Dickens, Jr. took over the magazine.
The following poem was published anonymously in its issue of August 21, 1886. It is a beautiful declaration of love addressed to a child. Although the author does never tell the child’s gender, the words “like a Queen” make it clear that it is a girl. CONTINUE READING / CONTINUER LA LECTURE…
A une jeune amie, par Jean Aicard
Dans ce poème provenant du recueil de vers Le Livre d’Heures de l’Amour, l’auteur s’adresse à une jeune fille, il lui demande de se détourner de lui, devenu trop vieux : « J’ai l’âge triste où l’on est sage, / Mon âme est une fleur fanée / Où ta lèvre boirait des pleurs ». Il lui recommande plutôt de suivre un papillon, de chercher les nids d’oiseaux, ou de cueillir des fleurs. CONTINUE READING / CONTINUER LA LECTURE…
Yvonne of Brittany, by Ernest Dowson
In his lifetime, Ernest Dowson published two volumes of poetry, Verses in June 1896, and Decorations: in Verse and Prose in December 1899, two months before his death. Except the poems in prose at the end of Decorations, they were included in The Poems and Prose of Ernest Dowson, With a Memoir by Arthur Symons, available on the web as a Project Gutenberg Ebook, and they can also be seen on ELCore.Net, Website of E. L. Core.
The volume Verses is dedicated to Adelaide Foltinowicz, a Polish girl born in 1878, with whom Dowson was in love. Having had hopes for a common future, many poems have a light and happy side, contrasting with the dark ones at the end of Decorations, written in bitter disappointment after Adelaide’s marriage with another man. CONTINUE READING / CONTINUER LA LECTURE…
John Clare’s Asylum Poems
John Clare (b. July 13, 1793; d. May 20, 1864) was an English farm labourer and poet. According to his biographer Jonathan Bate, Clare was “the greatest labouring-class poet that England has ever produced. No one has ever written more powerfully of nature, of a rural childhood, and of the alienated and unstable self.” CONTINUE READING / CONTINUER LA LECTURE…
Le cher parfum, par Jean Aicard
Provenant du recueil de vers Le Livre d’Heures de l’Amour (1887), voici un beau poème brûlant de sensualité. Goûter la bien-aimée comme un fruit, respirer son corps aux odeurs envoûtantes d’herbes et de fleurs, le désir du poète se pare de parfums, et quand la belle n’est pas là, ceux-ci viennent hanter ses souvenirs. CONTINUE READING / CONTINUER LA LECTURE…