carmina puts a French poem beside its translation — English on one side, Spanish on the other — aligned line by line. Hover a word and its counterpart lights up in the other column. It is built for people reading the French with a dictionary open, which is to say students. It comes from the same hands as floresdelmal.org.
Side by side
La Nature est un temple où de vivants piliers Laissent parfois sortir de confuses paroles ; L’homme y passe à travers des forêts de symboles Qui l’observent avec des regards familiers.
In Nature’s temple, living columns rise, Which oftentimes give tongue to words subdued, And Man traverses this symbolic wood, Which looks at him with half familiar eyes,
La Natura es un templo donde vividos pilares Dejan, a veces, brotar confusas palabras; El hombre pasa a través de bosques de símbolos que lo observan con miradas familiares.
Text Charles Baudelaire, Correspondances, 1857. English by Cyril Scott, 1909. Spanish by Eduardo Marquina, 1905.
Hover a word — or tap it — to find it in the other column.
The first three
- Arthur Rimbaud — 1854–1891
- Charles Baudelaire — 1821–1867
- Paul Verlaine — 1844–1896
Others will follow.
Coming soon
- Android — 10 October 2026
- iOS — to be announced
The listing opens on launch day.