Category: Poetry
The Dance of Death The Beacons The Sadness of the Moon Exotic Perfume Beauty The Balcony The Sick Muse The Venal Muse The Evil Monk The Temptation The Irreparable A Former Life Don Juan in Hades The Living Flame Correspondences The Flask Reversibility The Eyes of Beauty Sonnet...
A horrible life and a horrible city! Let us run over the events of the day. I have seen several literary men; one of them wished to know if he could get to Russia by land (he se...
6. Part 6Strange voyagers, what tales of noble deeds Deep in your dim sea-weary eyes one reads! Open the casket where your memories are, And show each jewel, fashioned from a star;
3. Part 3He fell in love with the celebrated Madame Sabatier, a reigning beauty, at whose salon artistic Paris assembled. She had been christened by Gautier Madame la Présidente, and her...
5. Part 5Oft have I followed one of these old women, One among others, when the falling sun Reddened the heavens with a crimson wound-- Pensive, apart, she rested on a bench To hear the...
4. Part 4And Sganarelle, with laughter, claimed his pledge; Don Luis, with trembling finger in the air, Showed to the souls who wandered in the sedge The evil son who scorned his hoary h...
1. Part 1The Dance of Death The Beacons The Sadness of the Moon Exotic Perfume Beauty The Balcony The Sick Muse The Venal Muse The Evil Monk The Temptation The Irreparable A Former Life...
2. Part 2The Etudes Critiques of Edmond Schérer were collected in 1863. In them we find this unhappy, uncritical judgment: "Baudelaire, lui, n'a rien, ni le cœur, ni l'esprit, ni l'idée,...
8. Part 8This heavy Satan beat with his fist upon his immense belly, from whence came a loud and resounding metallic clangour, which died away in a sighing made by many human voices. And...