
Note du transcripteur.
POËME.
A wandering soul pours out a confession of love that reads like a pilgrimage through myth and desire. The poet addresses an unattainable beloved as a celestial goddess, likening her eyes to a bright sun that can dissolve vows made on earth. Throughout the first sections, classical figures such as Cythère and Adonis appear by a sparkling stream, their fleeting flirtations echoing the narrator’s own conflicted promises and broken oaths.
The verses weave together passionate admiration, bitter self‑reflection, and vivid images of nature, creating a tapestry where love feels both divine and fragile. The speaker’s language swings between reverent praise and sharp disappointment, hinting at an inner struggle between fidelity and longing. Listeners will be drawn into a lyrical journey that captures the intensity of early romantic obsession without revealing the later twists of the poet’s tale.
Language
fr
Duration
~24 minutes (23K characters)
Publisher of text edition
Project Gutenberg
Credits
Produced by Paul Murray, Rénald Lévesque and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by the Bibliothèque nationale de France (BnF/Gallica) at http://gallica.bnf.fr)
Release date
2009-02-21
Rights
Public domain in the USA.

1564–1616
A playwright, poet, and actor from Stratford-upon-Avon, he created characters and lines that have stayed alive for more than four centuries. His stories of love, ambition, jealousy, power, and forgiveness still feel startlingly human.
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