L'Imitation de Notre-Dame la Lune

L'Imitation de Notre-Dame la Lune (The Imitation of Our Lady the Moon) (1886) is a collection of poems by the French poet Jules Laforgue. It is dedicated to Gustave Kahn and "to the memory of little Salammbô, priestess of Tanit". It contains the following twenty-two poems:


 * "Un mot au Soleil pour commencer"
 * "Litanies des premiers quartiers de la lune"
 * "Au large"
 * "Clair de lune"
 * "Climat, faune et flore de la lune"
 * "Guitare"
 * "Pierrots"
 * "Pierrots (On a des principes)"
 * "Pierrots (Scène courte mais typique)"
 * "Locutions des Pierrots"
 * "Dialogue avant le lever de la lune"
 * "Lunes en détresse"
 * "Petits mystères"
 * "Nuitamment"
 * "États"
 * "La lune est stérile"
 * "Stérilités"
 * "Les linges, le cygne"
 * "Nobles et touchantes divagations sous la lune"
 * "Jeux"
 * "Litanies des derniers quartiers de la lune"
 * "Avis, je vous prie"

English translations
Selections from L'Imitation have been translated by William Jay Smith and Graham Dunstan Martin, and in its entirety by Peter Dale.