# Arthur Rimbaud's most famous poems

The poems learned at school and still recited, almost all written before he turned twenty.

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- Sep 23, 2025 · Océane Joly
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## Top 15

1. **Vowels** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — The most discussed sonnet in French poetry: a colour for each vowel.
2. **At the Green Inn** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — 1870. A happy pause at an inn.
3. **The Sleeper in the Valley** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — 1870. A young soldier asleep in nature… who will not wake up.
4. **The Drunken Boat** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — 1871. Written at sixteen: the poet adrift.
5. **My Bohemian Life** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — 1870. Running away on foot, with torn pockets.
6. **Sensation** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — 1870. A summer walk through the fields.
7. **Romance** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — 1870. Adolescence and its first stirrings.
8. **The Sideboard** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — 1870. An old piece of furniture full of memories.
9. **Ophelia** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — 1870. Shakespeare's heroine floating on the water.
10. **The Astonished Ones** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — 1870. Poor children in front of the bakery.
11. **Seven-Year-Old Poets** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — 1871. His childhood in Charleville.
12. **Evil** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — 1870. War and indifference.
13. **A Season in Hell** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — 1873. The only book he published himself.
14. **The Seer Letter** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — 1871. "I is another": his poetics in a letter.
15. **Dawn** (-1 · ▲0 ▼1) — Illuminations. Chasing the dawn in prose poetry.

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