Aux Poètes Futurs

Rene Francois Armand Prudhomme 1839 (Paris) – 1907 (Châtenay-Malabry)



POÈTES à venir, qui saurez tant de choses,
Et les direz sans doute en un verbe plus beau,
Portant plus loin que nous un plus large flambeau
Sur les suprêmes fins et les premières causes;
Quand vos vers sacreront des pensers grandioses,
Depuis longtemps déjà nous serons au tombeau;
Rien ne vivra de nous qu'un terne et froid lambeau
De notre œuvre enfouie avec nos lèvres closes.

Songez que nous chantions les fleurs et les amours
Dans un âge plein d'ombre, au mortel bruit des armes,
Pour des cœurs anxieux que ce bruit rendait sourds;
Lors plaignez nos chansons, où tremblaient tant d'alarmes,
Vous qui, mieux écoutés, ferez en d'heureux jours
Sur de plus hauts objets des poèmes sans larmes.

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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Scheme ABCAACBA AAAAAA
Closest metre Iambic heptameter
Characters 703
Words 122
Stanzas 2
Stanza Lengths 8, 6

Rene Francois Armand Prudhomme

René François Armand (Sully) Prudhomme was a French poet and essayist.  more…

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