Villiers de l'Isle-Adam

Auguste de Villiers de l'Isle-Adam (1838–1889) was a French Symbolist writer, born at Saint-Brieuc in Brittany of Breton parentage. He is remembered for his tales, Contes cruels (1883), and his drama Axël (1890), and he published a first volume of poems when still very young.

The two poems here are in English verse renderings by W. J. Robertson from his A Century of French Verse (1895), as reprinted in Lyra Celtica.