Ariette III Il pleure dans mon coeur Comme il pleut sur la ville ; Quelle est cette langueur Qui pénètre mon coeur ? Ô bruit doux de la pluie Par terre et sur les toits ! Pour un coeur qui s'ennuie, Ô le chant de la pluie ! Il pleure sans raison Dans ce coeur qui s'écoeure. Quoi ! nulle trahison ? Ce deuil est sans raison. C'est bien la pire peine De ne savoir pourquoi Sans amour et sans haine Mon coeur a tant de peine !

Verlaine's first publiPaul Verlained collection Poèmes saturniens (1866) though adversely commented upon by Sainte-Beuve establiPaul Verlained him as a poet of promise and originality. "
The New Zealand band The Verlaines are named for Paul Verlaine. As an indirect result of this incident Verlaine was arrested and imprisoned at Mons where he underwent a conversion to Roman Catholicism which again influenced his work and provoked Rimbaud's sharp criticism.

Paul-Marie Verlaine (French pronunciation: ​[vɛʁˈlɛn]; 30 March 1844 – 8 January 1896) was a French poet associated with the Symbolist movement. He is considered one of the greatest representatives of the fin de siècle in international and French poetry.