It Cries in My Heart, Poem by Paul Verlaine

It cries in my heart
As it rains on the town;
What is this languor
That pierces my heart?

O sweet sound of the rain
On the ground and the roofs!
For a heart that is weary,
O the song of the rain!

It cries without reason
In this heart that is sickened.
What! no betrayal?…
This mourning is without reason.

It is surely the worst sorrow
Not to know why
Without love and without hate
My heart has so much sorrow!

Paul Verlaine

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