Hi Barta I've been studying french for four years now, and I ran across Chanson D'automne in a book of french poems I was reading. I can read and write french pretty well, but I can't speak it so very well. The poem is so beautiful to recite out loud, though.
This is my english translation, for anyone who doesn't read french.
Autumn's Song - Paul Verlaine
The long sobs Of the violins of autumn Wound my heart With a monotonous langor
All suffocated and pale When the hour sounds I remember the old days And I cry
And I go away On the vile wind which carries me Now here, now there Like the dead leaves
