Paul Verlaine Arthur Rimbaud, who admired his poetry. He urged Rimbaud to come to Paris, and by 1872, he had lost interest in Mathilde, and effectively abandoned her and their son, preferring the company of his new lover. Rimbaud and Verlaine's stormy affair took them to London in 1872. In Brussels in July 1873 in a drunken, jealous rage, he fired two shots with a pistol at Rimbaud, wounding his left wrist, though not seriously injuring the poet. As an indirect result of this incident, Verlaine was arrested and imprisoned at Mons, where he underwent a re-conversion to Roman Catholicism, which again
Paul Fleming (poet) which is contained in several hymnals. Johann Sebastian Bach used the final stanza to close both cantatas ' (BWV 13) and "Sie werden euch in den Bann tun" (BWV 44). The complete hymn is the base for Bach's chorale cantata ' (BWV 97). Already in the 17th century another composer, David Pohle (1624–1695), had set twelve of Fleming's love-songs to music. Source: Paul Fleming (poet) Paul Fleming, also spelt Flemming (October 5, 1609 – April 2, 1640), was a German physician and poet. As well as writing notable verse and hymns, he spent several years accompanying the Duke of Holstein's