Je pense aux matelots oubliés dans une île, / Aux captifs, aux vaincus!…à bien d’autres encor!
Baudelaire, “Le Cygne”I think of the sailors left behind on an island, / Of the captives, the conquered…of many others yet!
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The last two lines of this wonderful (IMO) poem. The translation could be read as two tetrameters with mostly anapestic rhythm.
Since English, in speaking of an entire group, is not obliged to use the definite article (in contradistinction to French; see here), one might translate these lines thus: “I think of sailors, left behind on an island, / Of captives, of conquered folk,…of many others yet!”