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
Hilarius (poet) contained in a cartulary of Ronceray, is also ascribed to the poet, who there calls himself "Hilarius Canonicus". The poem is printed in the Bibliothèque de l'Ecole des Chartes (vol. xxxvu. 1876), and was dated by Paul Marchegay from 1121. Hilarius (poet) Hilarius (fl. 1125) was a Latin poet who is supposed to have been an Englishman. He was one of the pupils of Pierre Abélard at his oratory of the Paraclete, and addressed to him a copy of verses with its refrain in the vulgar tongue, "Tort avers vos li mestre", Abelard having threatened to discontinue his teaching because