title: L'Imitation de Notre-Dame la Lune
text: # 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.
  
  