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Viens-tu du ciel profond ou sors-tu de l'abîme,O Beauté? ton regard, infernal et divin,Verse confusément le bienfait et le crime,Et l'on peut pour..

Come to my heart, cruel, insensible one,Adored tiger, monster with the indolent air;I would for a long time plunge my trembling fingersInto the heavy..

La tribu prophétique aux prunelles ardentesHier s'est mise en route, emportant ses petitsSur son dos, ou livrant à leurs fiers appétitsLe trésor..

LO, praise of the prowess of people-kingsof spear-armed Danes, in days long sped,we have heard, and what honor the athelings won!Oft Scyld the..

This is the sanctuarywhere the prettified young lady,calm, and always ready,fans her breasts, aglow,elbow on the pillow,hears the fountain’s..

Au pays parfumé que le soleil caresse,J'ai connu, sous un dais d'arbres tout empourprésEt de palmiers d'où pleut sur les yeux la paresse,Une dame..

Even when she walks she seems to dance!Her garments writhe and glisten like long snakesobedient to the rhythm of the wandsby which a fakir wakens..

Free as a bird and joyfully my heartSoared up among the rigging, in and out;Under a cloudless sky the ship rolled onLike an angel drunk with..

Morne esprit, autrefois amoureux de la lutte,L'Espoir, dont l'éperon attisait ton ardeur,Ne veut plus t'enfourcher! Couche-toi sans pudeur,Vieux..

On the great walls of ancient cloisters were nailedMurals displaying Truth the saint,Whose effect, reheating the pious entrailsBrought to an austere..

Are they blue, gray or green? Mysterious eyes(as if in fact you were looking through a mist)in alternation tender, dreamy, grimto match the shiftless..

Quand le ciel bas et lourd pèse comme un couvercleSur l'esprit gémissant en proie aux longs ennuis,Et que de l'horizon embrassant tout le cercleII..

Rappelez-vous l'objet que nous vîmes, mon âme,Ce beau matin d'été si doux :Au détour d'un sentier une charogne infameSur un lit semé de cailloux

The prophetic tribe of the ardent eyesYesterday they took the road, holding their babiesOn their backs, delivering to fierce appetitesThe always..

At last! I am alone! Nothing can be heard but the rumbling of a few belated and weary cabs. For a few hours at least silence will be ours, if not..

I've been home a long time among the vast porticos,Which the mariner sun has tinged with a million fires,Whose grandest pillars, upright, majestic..

To bear a weight that cannot be borne,Sisyphus, even you aren't that strong,Although your heart cannot be tornTime is short and Art is long.Far from..

L'un t'éclaire avec son ardeur,L'autre en toi met son deuil, Nature!Ce qui dit à l'un: Sépulture!Dit à l'autre: Vie et splendeur!Hermès inconnu qui..

Mon enfant, ma soeur,Songe à la douceur,D'aller là-bas, vivre ensemble!Aimer à loisir,Aimer et mourir,Au pays qui te ressemble!Les soleils..

When, by a decree of the sovereign power,The poet makes his appearance in a bored world,With fists clenched at the horror, his outraged motherCalls..

Mother of memories, mistress of mistresses,O you, all my pleasures! O you, all my learning!You will remember the joy of caresses,the sweetness of..

Those lit eyes go before me, in full view,(Some cunning angel magnetised their light) -Heavenly twins, yet my own brothers too,Shaking their diamond..

I'm like the king of a rain-country, richbut sterile, young but with an old wolf's itch,one who escapes Fénelon's apologues,and kills the day in..

The sun in crepe has muffled up his fire.Moon of my life! Half shade yourself like him.Slumber or smoke. Be silent and be dim,And in the gulf of..

My impoverished muse, alas! What have you for me this morning?Your empty eyes are stocked with nocturnal visions,In your cheek's cold and taciturn..