Verlaine

[ ver-len ]

/ vɛrˈlɛn /

noun

Paul

[pawl] /pɔl/,1844–96, French poet.

Example sentences from the Web for verlaine

Here Verlaine's tormented soul is entirely cast out of himself, and plunges in a sudden flood into the infinite.

Paul Verlaine |Stefan Zweig
I sit and think of Verlaine's 'It rains in my heart as it rains in the town.'

Melomaniacs |James Huneker
Verlaine in his enthusiasm wrote to him “Come, dear great soul, we are waiting for you, we want you.”

Paul Verlaine |Stefan Zweig
It is bitter in Baudelaire, sweet and plaintive in Lamartine, mystic in Verlaine.

De Profundis |Oscar Wilde

Mrs. Ballinger was furtively replacing a volume of Wordsworth by a copy of Verlaine.

Xingu |Edith Wharton

British Dictionary definitions for verlaine

Verlaine

/ (French vɛrlɛn) /

noun

Paul (pɔl). 1844–96, French poet. His verse includes Poèmes saturniens (1866), Fêtes galantes (1869) and Romances sans paroles (1874). He was closely associated with Rimbaud and was a precursor of the symbolists

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