Arthur Rimbaud's most famous poems
The top 3 according to 3 votes from people: Vowels · At the Green Inn · The Sleeper in the Valley. (Updated Sep 23, 2025.)
The poems learned at school and still recited, almost all written before he turned twenty.
Automatically translated (original in Français). See the original
Top 15
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Vowels
The most discussed sonnet in French poetry: a colour for each vowel.
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At the Green Inn
1870. A happy pause at an inn.
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The Sleeper in the Valley
1870. A young soldier asleep in nature… who will not wake up.
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The Drunken Boat
1871. Written at sixteen: the poet adrift.
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My Bohemian Life
1870. Running away on foot, with torn pockets.
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Sensation
1870. A summer walk through the fields.
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Romance
1870. Adolescence and its first stirrings.
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The Sideboard
1870. An old piece of furniture full of memories.
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Ophelia
1870. Shakespeare's heroine floating on the water.
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The Astonished Ones
1870. Poor children in front of the bakery.
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Seven-Year-Old Poets
1871. His childhood in Charleville.
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Evil
1870. War and indifference.
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A Season in Hell
1873. The only book he published himself.
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The Seer Letter
1871. "I is another": his poetics in a letter.
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Dawn
Illuminations. Chasing the dawn in prose poetry.
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