Poetry Monday!: "Vers dorés" by Gérard de Nerval
Here’s “Vers dorés” (1854) by Gérard de Nerval (1808-1855):
Homme, libre penseur ! te crois-tu seul pensant
Dans ce monde où la vie éclate en toute chose ?
Des forces que tu tiens ta liberté dispose,
Mais de tous tes conseils l’univers est absent….
For the rest of my “Sasha Reads” playlist, click here. Past poems are:
- “Ulysses” by Alfred, Lord Tennyson
- “The Pulley” by George Herbert
- “Harmonie du soir” (“Evening Harmony”) by Charles Baudelaire
- “Dirge Without Music” by Edna St. Vincent Millay
- “Clancy of the Overflow” by A.B. “Banjo” Paterson
- “Лотова жена” (“Lotova zhena”, “Lot’s wife”) by Anna Akhmatova
- “The Jumblies” by Edward Lear
- “The Conqueror Worm” by Edgar Allan Poe
- “Les Djinns” (“The Jinns”) by Victor Hugo
- “I Have a Rendezvous with Death” by Alan Seeger
- “When I Was One-and-Twenty” by A.E. Housman
- “Узник” (“Uznik”, “The Prisoner” or “The Captive”) by Aleksandr Pushkin
- “God’s Grandeur” by Gerard Manley Hopkins
- “The Song of Wandering Aengus” by William Butler Yeats
- “Je crains pas ça tellment” (“I’m not that scard about”) by Raymond Queneau
- “The Naming of Cats” by T.S. Eliot
- “The reticent volcano keeps…” by Emily Dickinson
- “Она” (“Ona”, “She”) by Zinaida Gippius
- “Would I Be Shrived?” by John D. Swain
- “Evolution” by Langdon Smith
- “Chanson d’automne” by Oscar Milosz
- “love is more thicker than forget” by e.e. cummings
- “My Three Loves” by Henry S. Leigh
- “Я мечтою ловил уходящие тени” (“Ia mechtoiu lovil ukhodiashchie teni”, “With my dreams I caught the departing shadows”) by Konstantin Balmont
- “Dane-geld” by Rudyard Kipling
- “Rules and Regulations” by Lewis Carroll
Source: https://reason.com/volokh/2021/03/08/poetry-monday-vers-dores-by-gerard-de-nerval/
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