Lindens smell fine on fine June nights! Sometimes the air is so sweet that you close your eyes; The wind brings sounds—the town is near— And carries scents of vineyards and beer. . . II. —Over there, ...

Purchase this and other timeless New Criterion essays in our hard-copy reprint series. —Let’s go to the green lindens on the promenade. The lindens smell good on mild June nights! The air so soft that ...

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Paul Verlaine (1844-1896) was a French poet and prominent member of two late-19th-century literary movements: the Symbolists, which sought to express transcendent truths through suggestive diction, ...