Falling tears in my heart, Falling rain on the town. Why th… - Paul Verlaine

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Falling tears in my heart,
Falling rain on the town.
Why this long ache,
A knife in my heart.

Paul Verlaine

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Paul-Marie Verlaine (March 30 1844 – January 8 1896) was a French Symbolist poet. He is often characterized as a poète maudit and an example of fin-de-siècle decadence in literature.

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What have you done, you standing there
In floods of tears?
Tell me what you have done
With your young life?

Les sanglots longs
Des violons
De l'automne
Blessent mon cœur
D'une langueur
Monotone.

The long sobs of
The violins
Of autumn
Lay waste my heart
With monotones
Of boredom.

Falling tears in my heart, Falling rain on the town. Why this long ache, A knife in my heart. - Paul Verlaine

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