{"id":463,"date":"2016-04-06T18:45:20","date_gmt":"2016-04-06T18:45:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/colbysites.org\/womenpoets\/cesoirquandlaville\/"},"modified":"2021-05-13T11:27:08","modified_gmt":"2021-05-13T15:27:08","slug":"cesoirquandlaville","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/poetes\/siefert\/works-9\/cesoirquandlaville\/","title":{"rendered":"Louisa Siefert : Ce soir, quand la ville engourdie&#8230;."},"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;\">&nbsp;<\/h4>\n<div id=\"center_block\">\n<div class=\"epigraph\">\u00c0 qui je pense, h\u00e9las ! loin du toit o\u00f9 vous \u00eates ?<br \/>\nEnfants, je pense \u00e0 vous . . . . . . . .<br \/>\n<span class=\"epigraph-author\">Victor Hugo<\/span><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">I.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span id=\"indent\"><br \/>\nCe soir, quand la ville engourdie<br \/>\nS&#8217;\u00e9veille \u00e0 l&#8217;heure o\u00f9 le jour fuit,<br \/>\nLa strada se remplit de bruit,<br \/>\nLe golfe au soleil s&#8217;incendie.<br \/>\n<\/span><span id=\"indent\"><br \/>\nEt par l&#8217;ombre enfin enhardie,<br \/>\nD\u00e8s que V\u00e9nus dans le ciel luit<br \/>\nAu premier souffle de la nuit<br \/>\nS&#8217;ouvre la fen\u00eatre agrandie.<br \/>\n<\/span><span id=\"indent\"><br \/>\nLes enfants sont l\u00e0, seuls, en deuil :<br \/>\nDe sa fr\u00eale voix cristalline,<br \/>\nB\u00e9b\u00e9 chante : \u00ab \u00c0 la Mergelline&#8230; \u00bb<br \/>\n<\/span><span id=\"indent\"><br \/>\nNinon guette leur p\u00e8re au seuil,<br \/>\nEt, laissant les jeux \u00e9ph\u00e9m\u00e8res,<br \/>\nMargot songe aux devoirs des m\u00e8res.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">II.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span id=\"indent\"><br \/>\nCar, \u00f4 pauvres parents navr\u00e9s,<br \/>\nSi l&#8217;enfant bien-aim\u00e9 succombe,<br \/>\nVous suivez presque la colombe<br \/>\nDans son vol aux cieux azur\u00e9s,<br \/>\n<\/span><span id=\"indent\"><br \/>\nEt vous savez que vous irez<br \/>\nRouvrir bient\u00f4t pour vous sa tombe ;<br \/>\nMais, quand c&#8217;est la m\u00e8re qui tombe<br \/>\nLaissant les siens d\u00e9sesp\u00e9r\u00e9s&#8230;<br \/>\n<\/span><span id=\"indent\"><br \/>\nCelui qu&#8217;un tel chagrin d\u00e9vore,<br \/>\nEn deuil aussi, plus seul encore,<br \/>\nAu retour sonde l&#8217;horizon.<br \/>\n<\/span><span id=\"indent\"><br \/>\nP\u00e8re, \u00e9poux, sa peine est pareille :<br \/>\nSes enfants, nul ne les surveille,<br \/>\nEt plus de femme \u00e0 la maison !<br \/>\n<\/span><\/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) &nbsp; \u00c0 qui je pense, h\u00e9las ! loin du toit o\u00f9 vous \u00eates ? Enfants, je pense \u00e0 vous . . . . . . . . Victor Hugo I. Ce soir, quand la ville engourdie S&#8217;\u00e9veille&#8230; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/poetes\/siefert\/works-9\/cesoirquandlaville\/\">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\/463"}],"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=463"}],"version-history":[{"count":27,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/poetes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/463\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8383,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/poetes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/463\/revisions\/8383"}],"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=463"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}