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| Guillaume Apollinaire |
Guillaume Apollinaire was born in Rome in 1880. A poet, writer, and art critic, he was among the foremost poets of the early 20th century and is credited both with coining the word surrealism and writing one of the earliest Surrealist works, Les Mamelles de Tirésias...
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| Mirabeau Bridge
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by Guillaume Apollinaire
Translated by Donald Revell |
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Under Mirabeau Bridge the river slips away
And lovers
Must I be reminded
Joy came always after pain
The night is a clock chiming
The days go by not I
We're face to face and hand in hand
While under the bridges
Of embrace expire
Eternal tired tidal eyes
The night is a clock chiming
The days go by not I
Love elapses like the river
Love goes by
Poor life is indolent
And expectation always violent
The night is a clock chiming
The days go by not I
The days and equally the weeks elapse
The past remains the past
Love remains lost
Under Mirabeau Bridge the river slips away
The night is a clock chiming
The days go by not I
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From Alcools by Guillaume Apollinaire, translated by Donald Revell. Copyright © 1995 by Donald Revell. Reprinted by permission of Wesleyan University Press. All rights reserved. |
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