can someone please help translate this??

[orleans]

it's french:
Il' Pleure Dans Mon Coeur
Comme Il Pleut La Ville

the google translator tells me it means:
it cry in my heart
as it rains city

i suspect this is not correct as it was inscribed on a gravestone.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

1. My ancient French gives me this:

It rains in my heart
as it rains in the city

[orleans]

2. thanks peggy--that makes more sense (i suppose) n/t

[Ptah]

3. 'It cries in my heart As it rains on the city' translated into French, says google:

Il pleure dans mon coeur Comme il pleut sur ​​la ville

[elleng]

4. Yes, Paul Verlaine

http://www.bacdefrancais.net/pleure.php

http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/it-rains-in-my-heart-translation-paul-verlaine-il-pleure-dans-mon-coeur/

[Ptah]

5. Great links, thanks, elleng.

[elleng]

6. You're welcome, Ptah.

ALWAYS good to relearn that my studies of French AND poetry have value!

[elleng]

21. Late, Ptah,

but I've unearthed my COLLEGE 'text book,' Nineteenth Century French Verse,' which contains my margin notes, so ask me 'ANYTHING!'

[orleans]

8. thank you! n/t

[Rhiannon12866]

7. I get: "He cries in my heart as it rains on the city."

It's from a poem by Paul Verlaine.

http://allpoetry.com/poem/8538093-Il_Pleure_dans_mon_Coeur-by-Paul_Verlaine

[orleans]

9. thank you. n/t

[Rhiannon12866]

10. Here it is translated to English, if that helps:

Paul Verlaine (1844-1896)

He cries in my heart

He cries in my heart
As it rains on the city;
What is this languor
That penetrates my heart?

O sweet sound of rain
The ground and on the roofs!
For a heart in pain,
Oh the song of the rain!

He cries for no reason
In this heart that sickens.
What! no treason? ...
This mourning is no reason.

This is the worst pain
Why do
Without love and hate
My heart has so much pain!

http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=fr&u=http://poesie.webnet.fr/lesgrandsclassiques/poemes/paul_verlaine/il_pleure_dans_mon_coeur.html&prev=/search%3Fq%3DIl%2527%2BPleure%2BDans%2BMon%2BCoeur%2BComme%2BIl%2BPleut%2BLa%2BVille%26safe%3Dactive

[Call Me Wesley]

11. His 'Chansons d'automme' was used as code for the

invasion of the Normandy within 48 hours signaled to the French résistance. (Operation Overlord: )

"Blessent mon cœur
D’une langueur
Monotone."

"Wound my heart
With a monotonous languor"

Just a little fun fact of the day.

[Tuesday Afternoon]

12. that is cool.

[Tuesday Afternoon]

13. wonder if Paul wrote it to/about Arthur Rimbaud?

[Call Me Wesley]

14. That could easily been.

[Tuesday Afternoon]

15. sounds like it, I think. yes.

good to see you CMW

how are things on the other side of the pond?

[Call Me Wesley]

17. Seems like it's getting summer here.

Hopefully ... And I hope my frogs tome down a notch. They hit 102 decibel yesterday.

[DFW]

16. In French, the words for rain and cry are very similar

If you want to get poetic, you could translate it as "My heart shed tears like the rain that falls on the town."

It's not literal, but probably close to what was meant.

[elleng]

18. Oui,

il pleut it rains

je pleure I cry

[DFW]

19. C'est ça

Si on parle vite, on n'entend à peine la différence.

[elleng]

20. Oui, comme ca beaucoups!