Poem: “Il Bacio” by Paul Verlaine

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Il Bacio

Kiss! Hollyhock in Love’s luxuriant close!
Brisk music played on pearly little keys,
In tempo with the witching melodies
Love in the ardent heart repeating goes.

Sonorous, graceful Kiss, hail! Kiss divine!
Unequalled boon, unutterable bliss!
Man, bent o’er thine enthralling chalice, Kiss,
Grows drunken with a rapture only thine!

Thou comfortest as music does, and wine,
And grief dies smothered in thy purple fold.
Let one greater than I, Kiss, and more bold,
Rear thee a classic, monumental line.

Humble Parisian bard, this infantile
Bouquet of rhymes I tender half in fear….
Be gracious, and in guerdon, on the dear
Red lips of One I know, alight and smile!

Translated by Gertrude Hall

Dessin de Verlaine. Une soirée chez Verlaine à l'hôtel meublé de l'impasse Royer-Collard en 1889, paru dans La Plume en 1896. — Une soirée chez Verlaine par Verlaine – 1889, .

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