Poems of Paul Verlaine

Slowly turns the gold to red
O'er the humble darkening vales;
Little trees that flatly spread,
Where some feeble birdling wails.

Scarcely sad, so mild and fair
This enfolding Autumn seems;
All my moody languor dreams,
Cradled by the gentle air.

Birds in the Night

I
You were not over-patient with me, dear;

This want of patience one must rightly rate:
You are so young! Youth ever was severe

And variable and inconsiderate!

You had not all the needful kindness, no;

Nor should one be amazed, unhappily:
You're very young, cold sister mine, and so

'Tis natural you should unfeeling be!

Behold me therefore ready to forgive;

Not gay, of course! but doing what I can
To bear up bravely,--deeply though I grieve

To be, through you, the most unhappy man.

II
But you will own that I was in the right

When in my