Rimbaud Selected Poems A. S. Kline © 2002, 2008 All Rights Reserved This work may be freely reproduced, stored, and transmitted, electronically or otherwise, for any non-commercial purpose. 2 Contents First Evening................................................................................................. 6 Sensation....................................................................................................... 8 The Blacksmith............................................................................................. 9 Sun and Flesh.............................................................................................. 17 Ophelia........................................................................................................ 23 Ballad of the Hanged .................................................................................. 26 Romance ..................................................................................................... 28 Eighteen Seventy ........................................................................................ 30 Rage of The Caesars ................................................................................... 31 The Famous Victory of Saarbrucken.......................................................... 32 A Winter Dream.......................................................................................... 33 Evil.............................................................................................................. 34 My Bohemia: A Fantasy............................................................................. 35 At The Green Inn ........................................................................................ 36 The Sly Girl................................................................................................. 37 The Sleeper in the Valley............................................................................ 38 Evening Prayer............................................................................................ 39 My Little Lovers ......................................................................................... 40 Poets at Seven Years................................................................................... 42 The Stolen Heart ......................................................................................... 45 The Parisian Orgy, or Paris Repeopled ...................................................... 46 Jeanne-Marie’s Hands................................................................................. 49 The Sisters of Charity ................................................................................. 52 First Communions....................................................................................... 54 What One Says to the Poet on the Subject of Flowers............................... 60 The Seekers of Lice .................................................................................... 66 The Drunken Boat....................................................................................... 67 Vowels ........................................................................................................ 71 The Rooks ................................................................................................... 72 Memory....................................................................................................... 73 Teardrop...................................................................................................... 75 The Song of the Highest Tower.................................................................. 77 Eternity........................................................................................................ 80 O Seasons, O Chateaux............................................................................... 82 3 The Illuminations........................................................................................ 84 After the Flood............................................................................................ 84 Childhood.................................................................................................... 86 Tale ............................................................................................................. 90 Parade.......................................................................................................... 92 Antique........................................................................................................ 93 Being Beauteous ......................................................................................... 94 Vies ............................................................................................................. 95 Departure..................................................................................................... 97 Royalty........................................................................................................ 98 To Reason ................................................................................................... 99 Drunken Morning ..................................................................................... 100 Sentences................................................................................................... 101 Workers..................................................................................................... 103 The Bridges............................................................................................... 104 City............................................................................................................ 105 Ruts ........................................................................................................... 106 Cities ......................................................................................................... 107 Vagabonds................................................................................................. 109 Cities ......................................................................................................... 110 Vigils......................................................................................................... 112 Mystic ....................................................................................................... 114 Dawn......................................................................................................... 115 Flowers...................................................................................................... 116 Mundane Nocturne ................................................................................... 117 Marine....................................................................................................... 118 Winter Feast.............................................................................................. 119 Anguish..................................................................................................... 120 Metropolitan.............................................................................................. 121 Barbarian................................................................................................... 122 Promontory ............................................................................................... 123 Scenes ....................................................................................................... 124 Historic Evening ....................................................................................... 125 Movement ................................................................................................. 126 Bottom....................................................................................................... 128 H................................................................................................................ 129 Prayer ........................................................................................................ 130 4 Democracy ................................................................................................ 131 Fairy .......................................................................................................... 132 War............................................................................................................ 133 Genie......................................................................................................... 134 Youth......................................................................................................... 136 Sale............................................................................................................ 139 A Season in Hell - Prologue ....................... 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