Selected Poems of Stephane Mallarme

By Mallarmé, Stéphane

Description
Classic Literature

Excerpt
Excerpt: Nothing, this foam, virgin verse Depicting the chalice alone: Far off a band of Sirens drown Many of them head first. We sail, O my various Friends, I already at the stern, You at the lavish prow that churns The lightning?s and the winters? flood: A sweet intoxication urges me Despite pitching, tossing, fearlessly To offer this toast while standing Solitude, reef, and starry veil To whatever?s worthy of knowing The white anxiety of our sail.

Table of Contents
Contents A Toast ...................................................................................................... 5 Futile Petition ......................................................................................... 6 A Negress ................................................................................................. 7 Distress ...................................................................................................... 8 Summer Sadness ................................................................................... 9 The Clown Chastised ........................................................................ 10 The Poem’s Gift .................................................................................. 11 L’Apres-midi d’un Faune................................................................ 12 Funeral Libation (At Gautier’s Tomb) ...................................... 20 The Tomb of Edgar Allan Poe ...................................................... 23 The Tomb of Charles Baudelaire................................................. 24 Tomb (Of Verlaine) ........................................................................... 25 Prose ......................................................................................................... 26 Another Fan........................................................................................... 29 Album Leaf............................................................................................ 30 Little Air..................................................................................................31 Sonnet: Quand lombre mena‡a........................................... 33 Sonnet: Le vierge, le vivace .................................................. 34 Sonnet: Victorieusement fui le suicide............................. 35 Sonnet: Ses purs ongles trŠs haut ........................................ 36 Sonnet: Pour votre chere morte, son ami......................... 37 To The Sole Concern......................................................................... 38 All Summarised The Soul......................................................... 39 What Silk........................................................................................... 40 To Introduce Myself..................................................................... 41 Crushed by........................................................................................ 42