Poems by Charles Baudelaire
Overcast
... That's what you're like- these warm white afternoons ...
Les Chats (Cats)
... Silence they love, and darkness, where temptation breeds ...
Evening Twilight
... by the hearth, at evening, next to their hearts desire ...
The Death Of Lovers
... and later, opening the doors, the angel who came ...
Le Flacon (The Perfume Flask)
... There, where, like Lazarus rising, his grave-clothes half unwound, ...
To She Who Is Too Light-hearted
... The dour passer-by you brush past there, ...
The Solitarys Wine
... filling us with triumph, and the Gods divine art! ...
Epilogue
... I longed to intoxicate myself, with the infernal delight ...
"Nest ce pas quil est doux,"
... of the young loves, God gives, at the start of our lives ...
L'Aube spirituelle (Spiritual Dawn)
... For the man thrown to earth who suffers and still dreams, ...
Spleen (III)
... Scorning his tutors, loathing his spaniels, finding stale ...
Sed Non Satiata (Unslakeable Lust)
... From out these wide black eyes which are your spirit's vent, ...
L'Albatros (The Albatross)
... How droll is the poor floundering creature, how limp and weak ...
Correspondances
... s,Comme l'ambre, le musc, le benjoin et l'encens,Qui chantent les transports de l'esprit et des sens ...
L'Albatros
... s et honteux,Laissent piteusement leurs grandes ailes blanchesComme des avirons traîner à ...
