Stuart Merrill

Educated in Paris, he became a student of Old French[?] texts and was a great admirer of Algernon Charles Swinburne. His principal books of poetry were Les Gammes (1887). Les Fastes (1891), and Petits Poèmes d'Automne (1895).

Quotation:

Fume l'encens, veille l'amour,

Dans son lit bleu la vierge est morte;

Couve le feu, tombe le jour,

L'Ange, mes soeurs, frappe à la porte.

--- La Mystérieuse Chanson

External link:

Selected poems of Stuart Merrill (in French): http://poesie.webnet.fr/auteurs/merrill