Le coucher du soleil

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



Si j'ose comparer le déclin de ma vie
A ton coucher sublime, ô Soleil ! je t'envie.
Ta gloire peut sombrer, le retour en est sûr :
Elle renaît immense avec l'immense azur.
De ton sanglant linceul tout le ciel se colore,
Et le regard funèbre où luit ton dernier feu,
Ce regard sombre et doux, dont tu couves encore
Le lys que ta ferveur a fait naguère éclore,
Est triste infiniment, mais n'est pas un adieu.

 
 

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Submitted on May 13, 2011

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Scheme AABBBACCD
Closest metre Iambic heptameter
Characters 422
Words 77
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 9

Rene Francois Armand Prudhomme

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

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