by
Arthur Rimbaud (1854 - 1891)
Royauté
Language: French (Français)
Available translation(s): CHI ENG ENG SPA
Un beau matin, chez un peuple fort doux, un homme
et une femme superbes criaient sur la place
publique: "Mes amis, je veux qu'elle soit reine!"
"Je veux être reine!" Elle riait et tremblait. Il
parlait aux amis de révélation, d'épreuve terminée.
Ils se pâmaient l'un contre l'autre.
En effet ils furent rois toute une matinée où les
tentures carminées se relevèrent sur les maisons,
et toute l'après-midi, où ils s'avancèrent du côté
des jardins de palmes.
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Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):
- CHI Chinese (中文) (Yen-Chiang Che) , "皇位", copyright © 2009, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- ENG English (Ahmed E. Ismail) , "Royalty", copyright © 2004, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- ENG English (Faith J. Cormier) , "Royalty", copyright © 2004, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- SPA Spanish (Español) (José Miguel Llata) , "Realeza", copyright © 2014, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
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Word count: 77
Royalty
Language: English  after the French (Français)
A beautiful morning, among a most gentle people,
a superb man and woman, cry out in a
public square: "My friends, I wish to make her your queen!"
"I wish to be your queen!," she cries, and trembles. He
speaks to his friends of revelation, of finished ordeals.
They swoon, one against the other.
Indeed, they were kings all that morning while
the crimson hangings went up on the houses,
and all that afternoon, when they advanced toward the coast
through gardens of palms.
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