The Rope-Maker (Emile Verhaeren Poems)
In his village greyAt foot of the dykes, that encompass himWith weary weaving of curves and linesToward the sea outstretching ...
Emile Verhaeren Poems on Light (10 Poems)
Excerpts from “LES HEURES CLAIRES” (English translations) (Emile Verhaeren Poems)
IOh, splendour of our joy and our delight,Woven of gold amid the silken air!See the dear house among its gables ...
The Cathedral Of Rheims (Emile Verhaeren Poems)
He who walks through the meadows of Champagne At noon in Fall, when leaves like gold appear, Sees it draw ...
The Bell-Ringer (Emile Verhaeren Poems)
Yon, in the depths of the evening's track,Like a herd of blind bullocks that seek their fellows,Wild, as in terror, ...
The Silence (Emile Verhaeren Poems)
Ever since ending of the summer weather.When last the thunder and the lightning broke,Shatt'ring themselves upon it at one stroke,The ...
Joy (Emile Verhaeren Poems)
O splendid, spacious day, irradiateWith flaming dawns, when earth shows yet more fairHer ardent beauty, proud, without alloy;And wakening life ...
The Glory Of The Heavens (Emile Verhaeren Poems)
Shining in dim transparence, the whole of infinity liesBehind the veil that the finger of radiant winter weavesAnd down on ...
The Snow (Emile Verhaeren Poems)
Uninterruptedly falls the snow,Like meagre, long wool-strands, scant and slow,O'er the meagre, long plain disconsolate.Cold with lovelessness, warm with hate.Infinite, ...
The Gardens (Emile Verhaeren Poems)
The landscape now reveals a change;A stair--that twin?d elm-boughs holdEnclosed 'mid hedges mystic, strange--Inaugurates a green and goldVision of gardens, ...
Infinitely (Emile Verhaeren Poems)
The hounds of despair, the hounds of the autumnal wind,Gnaw with their howling the black echoes of evenings.The darkness, immensely, ...