Showing posts with label les fleurs du mal. Show all posts
Showing posts with label les fleurs du mal. Show all posts
Thursday, July 9, 2020
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Born today...Charles Pierre Baudelaire, poet, April 9, 1821, Paris, France
The Spiritual Dawn
When upon revellers the stained dawn breaks
The fierce ideal comes with it; at that hour,
Stirred by some terrible avenging power,
An angel in the sated brute awakes.
Above the stricken, suffering man there glow
Far azure plains of unimagined bliss
Which draw his dreaming spirit like the abyss.
O pure, beloved Goddess, even so
O'er the smoked wrecks of stupid scenes of shame
Brighter and rosier thy sweet memory
Hovers before my wide eyes hauntingly...
The Sun has dimmed and charred the candles' flame,
And thus, my glorious all-conquering one,
Thy shade is peer to the immortal Sun
~ Fleurs du mal / Flowers of Evil
image: Carlo Farneti (1892-1961) illustration for Les Fleurs du Mal 1935
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