* Le Pont Mirabeau vu du port de Javel - Juillet 1999 Cliquez sur la photo pour la version 800x600 Le pont Mirabeau a été construit de 1894 à 1897 suite à une pétition des habitants des XVe et XVIe arrondissements. C'est un pont métallique reposant sur...
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HÉ QUE VOULEZ VOUS DIRE ? * Hé que voulez-vous dire ? êtes-vous si cruelle De ne vouloir aimer ? Voyez les passereaux Qui demènent l’amour : voyez les colombeaux, Regardez le ramier, voyez la tourterelle. * Voyez deçà delà d’une frétillante aile Voleter...
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A DREAM WITHIN A DREAM * Take this kiss upon the brow! And, in parting from you now, Thus much let me avow- You are not wrong, who deem That my days have been a dream; Yet if hope has flown away In a night, or in a day, In a vision, or in none, Is it...
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SPRINGTIME WONDER * The sky has never looked so blue Never a breeze so sweet Flowers burst forth in brilliant array As Springtime comes to greet. * The trees stand tall in their glory Tender leaves cover limbs once bare Yards filled with laughing children...
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WHEN YOU ARE OLD * When you are old and grey and full of sleep, And nodding by the fire, take down this book, And slowly read, and dream of the soft look Your eyes had once, and of their shadows deep; * How many loved your moments of glad grace, And loved...
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* STONE - CHARLES SIMIC STONE * Go inside a stone That would be my way. Let somebody else become a dove Or gnash with a tiger’s tooth. I am happy to be a stone. * From the outside the stone is a riddle: No one knows how to answer it. Yet within, it must...
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* LES PAS * Tes pas, enfants de mon silence, Saintement, lentement placés, Vers le lit de ma vigilance Procèdent muets et glacés. * Personne pure, ombre divine, Qu'ils sont doux, tes pas retenus ! Dieux !... tous les dons que je devine Viennent à moi...
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STONE * Go inside a stone That would be my way. Let somebody else become a dove Or gnash with a tiger’s tooth. I am happy to be a stone. * From the outside the stone is a riddle: No one knows how to answer it. Yet within, it must be cool and quiet Even...
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Edgar Allan Poe (1909-1849) là nhà thơ, nhà viết truyện ngắn và phê bình văn học Mỹ , ông để lại nhiều bài thơ nổi tiếng như "A Dream Within A Dream", "Annabel Lee", "The Bells", "The City in the Sea", "The Raven". * FROM CHILDHOOD'S HOUR * From childhood's...
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* Lamartine (1790-1869) LE LAC * 1- Ainsi, toujours poussés vers de nouveaux rivages, Dans la nuit éternelle emportés sans retour, Ne pourrons-nous jamais sur l'océan des âges Jeter l'ancre un seul jour ? * 2- Ô lac ! l'année à peine a fini sa carrière,...
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