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Charles Baudelaire
1821 - 1867
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Bien Loin D'Ici
Ere is the chamber consecrate, / Wherein this maiden delicate, / And enigmatically sedate,
Calm
Have patience, O my sorrow, and be still. / You asked for night: it falls: it is here. / A shadowy atmosphere enshrouds the hill,
Cats
Stiff scholars and the hody amorous / Will in their ripeness equally admire / Powerful, gende cats, pride of the house,
Clouded Sky
One would say your gaze was a misted screen: / your strange eyes (are they blue, grey or green?) / changeable, tender, dreamy, cruel, and again
Completely One
The Devil and I had a chat / This morning in my snuggery; / Trying to catch me in a lapse,
Condemned Women
Like pensive cattle lying on the sands / They gaze upon the endless seas, until / Feet grope for feet, and hands close over hands,
Condemned Women: Delphine And Hippolyta
Within the dwindling glow of light from languid lamps, / Sunk in the softest cushions soaked with heady scent, / Hippolyta lay dreaming of the thrilling touch
Confession
Once, once only, sweet and lovable woman, / you leant your smooth arm on mine / (that memory has never faded a moment
Congenial Horror
From this bizarre and livid sky / Tormented by your destiny, / Into your vacant spirit fly
Contemplation
Hou, O my Grief, be wise and tranquil still, / The eve is thine which even now drops down, / To carry peace or care to human will,
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