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Au Tombeau de Banville

By Algernon Charles Swinburne

Topics: classic

La plus douce des voix qui vibraient sous le ciel     Se tait: les rossignols ails pleurent le frre     Qui s'envole au-dessus de l'pre et sombre terre,     Ne lui laissant plus voir que l'tre essentiel,     Esprit qui chante et rit, fleur d'une me sans fiel.     L'ombre lysenne, o la nuit n'est que lumire,     Revoit, tout revtu de splendeur douce et fire,     Mlicerte, pote la bouche de miel.     Dieux exils, passants clestes de ce monde,     Dont on entend parfois dans notre nuit profonde     Vibrer la voix, frmir les ailes, vous savez     S'il vous aima, s'il vous pleura, lui dont la vie     Et le chant rappelaient les vtres. Recevez     L'me de Mlicerte affranchie et ravie.

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Algernon Charles Swinburne

About Algernon Charles Swinburne

Algernon Charles Swinburne (1837–1909) was an English poet known for metrical innovation and bold themes. His "Atalanta in Calydon" and "Poems and Ballads" challenged Victorian conventions with their musical intensity and controversial subject matter.

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