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Charles Baudelaire

Complete Poems

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Rimbaud called him 'le premier voyant, roi des poetes, un vrai dieu', and the history of modern poetry, which begins with him, has borne out that opinion. This is a comprehensive new translation of all Baudelaire's poetry, excluding only the juvenilia, occasional verse and work of doubtful attribution. It includes all the poems published in the first (1857) and second (1861) editions of the book, as well as those added to the third (1868), published after the poet's death. Baudelaire contemplated a volume of poems that would 'launch him into the future like a cannonball', and here it is in vivid and formally authoritative translation.
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255 printed pages
Original publication
2012
Publication year
2012
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    When you perform this solemn rite
    You echo and reflect my love.
    Gathering while it may
    The moonlit hours
    Into a playful spray,
    The fountain flowers,
    Only to fall away,
    As playing sours.
  • lonesomeghosthas quoted4 years ago
    Of a Heaven to call your own, read on –
    Learn how to love, and be, a ne’er-do-well.
    Have pity on my soul. Or go to Hell.
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    I am a graveyard, hated by the moon,
    Where worms, with dust I loved, hold intercourse,
    Distending endlessly like my remorse;
    An old boudoir where fashions from the past,
    Perfumed by withered roses, gather must;

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