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GREAT BLACK SOMNOLENCE FALLS OVER MY LIFE. SLEEP... by PAUL VERLAINE

Poet Analysis

Last Line: BAD--SUCH A MISFORTUNE! I AM A CRADEL ROCKED BY A HAND IN THE DEPTHS OF %A VAULT. SILENCE, SILENCE!

Poem Sources:

FRENCH SYMBOLIST POETRY. COMPILED AND EDITED BY JOHN PORTER HOUSTON AND MONA TOBIN.
  HOUSTON, JOHN PORTER (COMP. & ED.)
  (1980)
 



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