L'Imitation de Notre-Dame la Lune
# L'Imitation de Notre-Dame la Lune

L'Imitation de Notre-Dame la Lune (The Imitation of Our Lady the Moon) (1886) is a collection of poems by the French poet Jules Laforgue. It is dedicated to Gustave Kahn and "to the memory of little Salammbô, priestess of Tanit". It contains the following twenty-two poems:

* "Un mot au Soleil pour commencer"
* "Litanies des premiers quartiers de la lune"
* "Au large"
* "Clair de lune"
* "Climat, faune et flore de la lune"
* "Guitare"
* "Pierrots"
* "Pierrots (On a des principes)"
* "Pierrots (Scène courte mais typique)"
* "Locutions des Pierrots"
* "Dialogue avant le lever de la lune"
* "Lunes en détresse"
* "Petits mystères"
* "Nuitamment"
* "États"
* "La lune est stérile"
* "Stérilités"
* "Les linges, le cygne"
* "Nobles et touchantes divagations sous la lune"
* "Jeux"
* "Litanies des derniers quartiers de la lune"
* "Avis, je vous prie"

## English translations

Selections from L'Imitation have been translated by William Jay Smith and Graham Dunstan Martin, and in its entirety by Peter Dale.

