Poèmes saturniens
Poèmes saturniens is the first collection of poetry by Paul Verlaine, first published in 1866.
Verlaine was linked with the
Parnassien movement in French poetry
. He published his first poem in their journal, Revue du Progrès moral, littéraire, scientifique et artistique, in August 1863. Poèmes saturniens is thought to be a partial re-working of an earlier collection planned under the title Poèmes et Sonnets.
The collection is divided into sections under the headings:
- Melancholia
- "Résignation"
- "Nevermore"
- "Après trois ans"
- "Voeu"
- "Lassitude"
- "Mon rêve familier"
- "À une femme"
- "L’Angoisse"
- Eaux-Fortes
- "Croquis parisien"
- "Cauchemar"
- "Marine"
- "Effet de nuit"
- "Grotesques"
- Paysages tristes
- "Soleils couchants"
- "Crépuscule du soir mystique"
- "Promenade sentimentale"
- "Nuit du Walpurgis classique"
- "Chanson d'automne" (famous for phrases use as a message to the Resistance in 1944)
- "L’Heure du berger"
- "Le Rossignol"
- Caprices
- "Femme et chatte"
- "Jésuitisme"
- "La Chanson des ingénues"
- "Une grande dame"
- "Monsieur Prudhomme"
- Autres poèmes
- "Initium"
- "Çavitrî"
- "Sub urbe"
- "Sérénade"
- "Un dahlia"
- "Nevermore (2)"
- "Il bacio"
- "Dans les bois"
- "Nocturne parisien"
- "Marco"
- "César Borgia"
- "La Mort de Philippe II"