{"id":459,"date":"2016-04-06T18:45:12","date_gmt":"2016-04-06T18:45:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/colbysites.org\/womenpoets\/aularge-3\/"},"modified":"2021-04-18T10:16:36","modified_gmt":"2021-04-18T14:16:36","slug":"aularge-3","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/poetes\/siefert\/works-9\/aularge-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Louisa Siefert : Au large"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"poem\" align=\"center\">\n<p class=\"volume-name\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Les Sto\u00efques <\/em>(1870)<\/p>\n<h4 class=\"poem-title\" style=\"text-align: center;\">AU LARGE<\/h4>\n<div id=\"center_block\">\n<div class=\"epigraph\">Lest de l&#8217;\u00e2me, pesant bagage,<br \/>\nTr\u00e9sors mis\u00e9rables ; chers,<br \/>\nSombrez. . . . . .<br \/>\n<span class=\"epigraph-author\">Th\u00e9ophile Gautier.<\/span><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Aux pays des autres \u00e9toiles,<br \/>\nAux lointains pays fabuleux,<br \/>\nLe vaisseau sous ses blanches voiles<br \/>\nNage au gr\u00e9 des flots onduleux.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Le ciel &amp; l&#8217;oc\u00e9an s&#8217;unissent<br \/>\nAu bord de l&#8217;horizon enfui,<br \/>\nLes lourdes vagues s&#8217;aplanissent<br \/>\nAvec un long soupir d&#8217;ennui.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Dans cette immensit\u00e9 sans terme<br \/>\nO\u00f9 se perd, tombe &amp; meurt le vent,<br \/>\nLe sillage qui se referme<br \/>\nMarque seul la marche en avant.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">O tristesse ind\u00e9finissable,<br \/>\nAccablement toujours nouveau !<br \/>\nNe pas voir m\u00eame un grain de sable,<br \/>\nNe pas m\u00eame entendre un \u00e9cho !<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Ici, rien que la mer sans gr\u00e8ves,<br \/>\nL\u00e0, rien que l&#8217;ombre des agr\u00e8s ;<br \/>\nRien \u00e0 l&#8217;avenir que des r\u00eaves,<br \/>\nRien au pass\u00e9 que des regrets !<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">La semaine suit la semaine,<br \/>\nLe flot que le flot submergea<br \/>\nAu gouffre dans sa chute emm\u00e8ne<br \/>\nChaque heure qui sonne, &amp; d\u00e9j\u00e0&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">L&#8217;aube a d&#8217;\u00e9clatantes nuances,<br \/>\nLe soir des couchants orang\u00e9s,<br \/>\nFlambo\u00eements &amp; phosphorescences<br \/>\n\u00c0 nos ciels d&#8217;Europe \u00e9trangers.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Des formes d&#8217;astres inconnues,<br \/>\nVaisseaux par Dieu m\u00eame conduits,<br \/>\nIles, perles ou fleurs des nues<br \/>\nBrodent le bleu manteau des nuits.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Mais cette splendeur qui d\u00e9core<br \/>\nLe vaste infini d\u00e9roul\u00e9<br \/>\nEst d&#8217;un aspect plus triste encore<br \/>\nAux yeux tristes de l&#8217;exil\u00e9.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Et la petite maison basse,<br \/>\nFr\u00e8re, o\u00f9 sont ta m\u00e8re &amp; tes s\u0153urs,<br \/>\nPour ton c\u0153ur avait plus d&#8217;espace,<br \/>\nPour ton regard plus de douceur.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/poetes\/siefert\/works-9\/lesstoiquespage\/\">Retour \u00e0 la table des mati\u00e8res<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Les Sto\u00efques (1870) AU LARGE Lest de l&#8217;\u00e2me, pesant bagage, Tr\u00e9sors mis\u00e9rables ; chers, Sombrez. . . . . . Th\u00e9ophile Gautier. Aux pays des autres \u00e9toiles, Aux lointains pays fabuleux, Le vaisseau sous ses blanches voiles Nage au gr\u00e9&#8230; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/poetes\/siefert\/works-9\/aularge-3\/\">Continue Reading &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"parent":391,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"template-fullwidth.php","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/poetes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/459"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/poetes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/poetes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/poetes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/poetes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=459"}],"version-history":[{"count":42,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/poetes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/459\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8352,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/poetes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/459\/revisions\/8352"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/poetes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/391"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/poetes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=459"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}