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=="El Desdichado" (1853)==
By Gerard de Nerval


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I am the man of gloom,--the widower, --the unconsoled,

The Prince of Aquitania, his tower in ruins:

My only ''star'' is dead, and my constellated lute

Bears the ''Black Sun'' of ''Melancholia.''

In the night of the tomb, you who've consoled me, 

Give me back Posillipo and the Italian sea,

The ''flower'' that so pleased my desolate heart,

And the arbor where the vine and rose are intertwined.  

am I Amor or Phoebus? ...Lusignan or Biron?

My brow still burns from the kiss of the queen; 

I have dreamed in the grotto where the siren swims...

And twice I have cross Acheron victorious:

Modulating on the lyre of Orpheus

Now the sighs of the saint, now the cry of the fairy.