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
Marula (poet) now extant. The following verse is about a woman separated from her lover: Marula (poet) Marula (IAST: Mārulā; fl. 13th century or earlier) was a Sanskrit-language poetess from present-day India. Her verses are included in early medieval Sanskrit anthologies, including Sharngadhara's "Paddhati" and Jalhana's "Suktimuktavali". Marula's verses are included in Sanskrit anthologies such as Jalhana's "Suktimuktavali" (13th century) and Sharngadhara's "Paddhati" (14th century). So, she must have lived in the 13th century or earlier, although her exact period is not certain. She must have been a famous poet of her time, for a verse attributed to Dhanadadevas in Sharngadhara's "Paddhati"