Ma Bohème (Rimbaud ).

I went off with my hands in my torn coat pockets; 
My overcoat too was becoming ideal;
I travelled beneath the sky, Muse! and I was your vassal;
Oh dear me! what marvellous loves I dreamed of!
My only pair of breeches had a big whole in them.
– Stargazing Tom Thumb, I sowed rhymes along my way.
My tavern was at the Sign of the Great Bear.
– My stars in the sky rustled softly.
And I listened to them, sitting on the road-sides
On those pleasant September evenings while I felt drops
Of dew on my forehead like vigorous wine;
And while, rhyming among the fantastical shadows,
I plucked like the strings of a lyre the elastics 
Of my tattered boots, one foot close to my heart!

As translated by Oliver Bernard.
Je m'en allais, les poings dans mes poches crevées ;
Mon paletot aussi devenait idéal ;
J'allais sous le ciel, Muse ! et j'étais ton féal ;
Oh ! là là ! que d'amours splendides j'ai rêvées !
Mon unique culotte avait un large trou.
- Petit-Poucet rêveur, j'égrenais dans ma course
Des rimes. Mon auberge était à la Grande Ourse.
- Mes étoiles au ciel avaient un doux frou-frou
Et je les écoutais, assis au bord des routes,
Ces bons soirs de septembre où je sentais des gouttes
De rosée à mon front, comme un vin de vigueur ;
Où, rimant au milieu des ombres fantastiques,
Comme des lyres, je tirais les élastiques
De mes souliers blessés, un pied près de mon coeur !
Rimbaud Arthur

Ma Bohème

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Spring 42

La Prière d'un païen
Ah! ne ralentis pas tes flammes;
Réchauffe mon coeur engourdi,
Volupté, torture des âmes!
Diva! Supplicem exaudî!
Déesse dans l'air répandue,
Flamme dans notre souterrain!
Exauce une âme morfondue,
Qui te consacre un chant d'airain.
Volupté, sois toujours ma reine!
Prends le masque d'une sirène
Faite de chair et de velours,
Ou verse-moi tes sommeils lourds
Dans le vin informe et mystique,
Volupté, fantôme élastique!

— Charles Baudelaire

La Prière d'un païen(Baudelaire)

W.H. Auden Cocaon Lil:

Did you ever hear about Cocaine Lil? 
She lived in Cocaine town on Cocaine hill, 
She had a cocaine dog and a cocaine cat, 
They fought all night with a cocaine rat. 

She had cocaine hair on her cocaine head. 
She had a cocaine dress that was poppy red: 
She wore a snowbird hat and sleigh-riding clothes, 
On her coat she wore a crimson, cocaine rose. 

Big gold chariots on the Milky Way, 
Snakes and elephants silver and gray. 
Oh the cocaine blues they make me sad, 
Oh the cocaine blues make me feel bad. 

Lil went to a snow party one cold night, 
And the way she sniffed was sure a fright. 
There was Hophead Mag with Dopey Slim, 
Kankakee Liz and Yen Shee Jim. 

There was Morphine Sue and the Poppy Face Kid, 
Climbed up snow ladders and down they skid; 
There was the Stepladder Kit, a good six feet, 
And the Sleigh-riding Sister who were hard to beat. 

Along in the morning about half past three 
They were all lit up like a Christmas tree; 
Lil got home and started for bed, 
Took another sniff and it knocked her dead. 

They laid her out in her cocaine clothes: 
She wore a snowbird hat with a crimson rose; 
On her headstone you’ll find this refrain: 
She died as she lived, sniffing cocaine

The white side of darkness..W.H.Auden

The awakening of Laura Palmer.

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Ode to Spring. (Thomas Gray )

Eldorado Related Poem
BY EDGAR ALLAN POE
Gaily bedight, 
   A gallant knight, 
In sunshine and in shadow,   
   Had journeyed long,   
   Singing a song, 
In search of Eldorado. 

   But he grew old— 
   This knight so bold—   
And o’er his heart a shadow—   
   Fell as he found 
   No spot of ground 
That looked like Eldorado. 

   And, as his strength   
   Failed him at length, 
He met a pilgrim shadow—   
   ‘Shadow,’ said he,   
   ‘Where can it be— 
This land of Eldorado?’ 

   ‘Over the Mountains 
   Of the Moon, 
Down the Valley of the Shadow,   
   Ride, boldly ride,’ 
   The shade replied,— 
‘If you seek for Eldorado!’

Eldorado  Edgar Allan Poe

Voices: Abdelkader Terbah.
Keyboards : Abdelkader Terbah.
Prod: Abdelkader Terbah.
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