Two Short Poems by Modern French Poets--English Translations

"The Garden," by Jacques Prévert

 Video/reading of a short poem by Prévert (1900-1977), translated by Alastair Campbell--grateful acknowledgement to him: 

Link:

 Prévert

"Sky Song," by Robert Desnos

 Video/reading of a lovely, whimsical love poem by Robert Desnos, translated from the French:

link:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qPqht2HE7jY

"The Ever Patient Woman" by Andrée Chedid

 Reading/video of a poem by Andrée Chedid, whose given name was  Andrée Saab Khoury. She was born in Egypt to parents whose background was Lebanese Christian and Greek (Orthodox Christian). She settled in France and became a renowned writer of prose and poetry, and among her honors was the Grand Officer of the French Legion of Honor.

link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vOnNZsJRRhI

"We Will Sleep Together," by Louis Aragon

A whimsical love poem, translated, by Louis Aragon; readig/video. About a minute.

Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ovct3m_4sZU

"Song (We Don't Know)," by Jacques Prévert

A 25 second reading/video of the Jacques Prévert poem, translated by A.S. Kline, used by permission.

Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1M5Qn-9ny80

"Under Cover of Night," by Robert Desnos

Short poem from the French surrealist who knew Breton, Aragon, and Eluard. Desnos also worked in radio, and he knew Hemingway and Dos Passos. He joined the French Resistance and eventually was capture by the Nazis and sent to concentration camps. He died in one, having suffered from typhoid.

Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MZY14Et6Gn4

"We Two," by Paul Éluard

Reading/video of 44 seconds of a poem by the French surrealist Paul Éluard, who was associated with Max Ernst, Andre Breton, Pablo Picasso, and Louis Aragon. 

Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-xN2RgX6FIA

"The Day's End," by Charles Baudelaire

"The Spell," by Paul Verlaine