Verlaine's most famous lines
The top 3 according to 9 votes from people: The long sobs of the violins of autumn wound my heart with a monotonous languor. · I remember the days of old and I weep · And I go off on the ill wind that carries me here and there, like a dead leaf.. (Updated Feb 25, 2026.)
'The long sobs of the violins of autumn', 'It rains in my heart', 'Music before all else': the lines of Paul Verlaine that French pupils learn by heart, checked against the original editions, with the poem and the collection.
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Top 13
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The long sobs of the violins of autumn wound my heart with a monotonous languor.
'Autumn Song', Poèmes saturniens (1866).
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2
I remember the days of old and I weep
'Autumn Song', Poèmes saturniens (1866).
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And I go off on the ill wind that carries me here and there, like a dead leaf.
'Autumn Song', Poèmes saturniens (1866).
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I often have this strange and piercing dream of an unknown woman whom I love and who loves me
'My Familiar Dream', Poèmes saturniens (1866).
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5
Tell me, you there, what have you done with your youth?
Sagesse (1880).
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6
Take eloquence and wring its neck!
'The Art of Poetry', Jadis et naguère (1884).
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Your soul is a chosen landscape charmed by masquers and bergamasquers
'Moonlight', Fêtes galantes (1869).
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Here are fruits, flowers, leaves and branches, and here is my heart, which beats only for you.
'Green', Romances sans paroles (1874).
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The sky is, above the roof, so blue, so calm!
Sagesse (1880), written in prison.
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And all the rest is literature.
'The Art of Poetry', Jadis et naguère (1884), last line.
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It rains in my heart as it rains on the town
Romances sans paroles (1874).
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It is the worst pain of all not to know why, without love and without hate, my heart is in such pain!
Romances sans paroles (1874).
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Music before all else
'The Art of Poetry', Jadis et naguère (1884), first line.
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