L’amour brise toutes les barrières et rapproche les plus éloignés. Lui seul a ce pouvoir. CONTINUE READING / CONTINUER LA LECTURE…
Neuf Fleurs (deuxième version)
Tag: love
Sonnets of a Little Girl, V, by Ernest Dowson
This beautiful poem, probably written in 1885, is the most fitting epitaph for this poet, who died too soon. CONTINUE READING / CONTINUER LA LECTURE…
Les sons de l’amour chez Émile Blémont
Le poème qui suit est ma dernière sélection du recueil Les pommiers en fleur : idylles de France et de Normandie d’Émile Blémont. Il n’a pas de titre, il apparaît seulement avec son numéro VIII dans Chansons des champs, la deuxième partie. CONTINUE READING / CONTINUER LA LECTURE…
Penelope, by Francis Thompson
Volume 2 of The works of Francis Thompson, Poems contains a section titled A Narrow Vessel, starting with the following description:
Being a little dramatic sequence on the aspect of primitive girl-nature towards a love beyond its capacities
It consists mostly of poems about unhappy love affairs with girls; they are often bitter and reproachful, sometimes telling of “sin.” CONTINUE READING / CONTINUER LA LECTURE…
Passion Rebelle
L’amour véritable choisit librement sa voie, il viole la moralité et l’ordre social. Il sera donc nié, censuré, banni et persécuté. Mais il finira par vaincre ses ennemis. CONTINUE READING / CONTINUER LA LECTURE…
Forbidden Fruit, by Roy Harper
The English folk rock singer, songwriter and guitarist Roy Harper (born on June 12, 1941) has released 32 albums during a career that has lasted over 50 years. His 7th album Valentine, released in 1974 with Harvest Records, contains 10 tracks, starting with the song “Forbidden Fruit” that tells of a love affair with a 13 years old girl. CONTINUE READING / CONTINUER LA LECTURE…
Murmures et soupirs
Les couleurs ne sont pas comme vous les pensez, et vous ne comprenez pas la liberté et l’amour. Tout se trouve présenté à l’envers. Révolution. CONTINUE READING / CONTINUER LA LECTURE…
Love is a tongue on a tiny rosebud
The little flower of burning desires
Is waiting for a caress
And a poet’s kiss.
But the kiss comes only within a dream
In a faraway world. CONTINUE READING / CONTINUER LA LECTURE…
Sonnets of a Little Girl, IV, by Ernest Dowson
Of the 8 Sonnets of a Little Girl, only two were published in Dowson’s lifetime: a modified version of the 8th, and this one, the 4th, in its original version. It appeared with the title “Sonnet to a little Girl” in London Society, volume 50, November 1886, over the initials E.C.D. Notice that while the title is dedicated to “a little girl,” in the first sentence of the poem he writes about the child “his” and “him.” CONTINUE READING / CONTINUER LA LECTURE…
It was deep April and the morn, by Michael Field
From “The Third Book of Songs” of Underneath the Bough, I present today what I consider one of the most important poems by Katharine Bradley and Edith Cooper. In it, they defiantly proclaim in front of the world, “pressing sore,” their beautiful forbidden passion: “My Love and I took hands and swore, / Against the world, to be / Poets and lovers evermore,” laughing, dreaming and singing to the symbols of death, “Indifferent to heaven and hell.” They seek the “fast-locked souls” faithful to poetry, “Who never from Apollo fled.” CONTINUE READING / CONTINUER LA LECTURE…