Death and the Maiden (The Verlaines song) a version for the Flying Nun tribute album "Under the Influence - 21 Years of Flying Nun Records" in 2002. Boston band Prickly covered the song on their 1997 LP "Velleity." "You'll only end up like Rimbaud"<br>"Get shot by Verlaine, Verlaine, Verlaine, Verlaine..."<br> The lyrics above refer to Paul Verlaine, a 19th-century French poet. After going into a drunken rage, Verlaine shot his lover – fellow poet Arthur Rimbaud in July 1873. The Verlaines took their name from the French poet. "Shall we have our photo taken?"<br>"We'll look like Death and the Maiden"<br> This is a reference to a painting
Vivian Smith (poet) surrounding Australian poetry. With his fellow poet and great friend, the late Noel Rowe, he published the anthology "Windchimes: Asia in Australian Poetry" (Pandanus Books 2006). Vivian Smith (poet) Vivian Brian Smith (born 3 June 1933) is an Australian poet. He is considered one of the most lyrical and observant Australian poets of his generation. Smith was born in Hobart, Tasmania and studied French at the University of Tasmania from which he graduated with a Master of Arts. He left Tasmania in the late 1950s and has lived since then in Sydney, where he was a longtime professor at the