Sadness

Poems about sadness, melancholy and spleen, from Du Bellay to Prévert. Verlaine wrote “Il pleure dans mon cœur”, Baudelaire his spleen poems, and Du Bellay “Heureux qui, comme Ulysse”, about longing for home. Apollinaire (“Hunting Horns”), Senghor and Prévert carry on this melancholy strain.