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In all its raucous impudenceLife writhes, cavorts in pallid light,With little cause or consequence;And when, with darkling skies, the nightCasts over..

What will you say tonight, poor soul in solitude,what will you say my heart, withered till now,to the so beautiful, so sweet, so dear one,whose..

My youth was nothing but a black stormCrossed now and then by brilliant suns.The thunder and the rain so ravage the shoresNothing's left of the fruit..

Music, like an ocean, often carries me away!Through the ether far,or under a canopy of mist, I set sailfor my pale star.Breasting the waves, my lungs..

Have pity, You alone whom I adoreFrom down this black pit where my heart is sped,A sombre universe ringed round with leadWhere fear and curses the..

Tonight the moon dreams in a deeper languidness,And, like a beauty on her cushions, lies at rest;While drifting off to sleep, a tentative..

A fountain's pulsing sobs--like this my bloodMeasures its flowing, so it sometimes seems.I hear a gentle murmur as it streams;Where the wound lies..

You that, like a dagger’s thrust,Have entered my complaining heart,You that, stronger than a hostOf demons, came, wild yet prepared;Within my mind’s..

Above the ponds, beyond the valleys,The woods, the mountains, the clouds, the seas,Farther than the sun, the distant breeze,The spheres that wilt to..

Imagine, ma petite,Dear sister mine, how sweetWere we to go and take our pleasureLeisurely, you and I—To lie, to love, to dieOff in that land made to..

The hour has come at last when, trembling to and fro,Each flower is a censer sifting its perfume;The scent and sounds all swirl in evening’s gentle..

(The speaker addresses himself)Lighten up, you bitch, stop being so bitter.You lobbied for night. It falls. Right here.The air, a haziness, wimples..

Have patience, O my sorrow, and be still.You asked for night: it falls: it is here.A shadowy atmosphere enshrouds the hill,to some men bringing..

You can scorn more illustrious eyes,sweet eyes of my child, through which there takes flightsomething as good or as tender as night.Turn to mine your..

Nature is a temple whose living colonnadesBreathe forth a mystic speech in fitful sighs;Man wanders among symbols in those gladesWhere all things..

Often to pass the time on board, the crewwill catch an albatross, one of those big birdswhich nonchalently chaperone a shipacross the bitter fathoms..

Looking from outside into an open window one never sees as much as when one looks through a closed window. There is nothing more profound, more..

My well-beloved was stripped. Knowing my whim,She wore her tinkling gems, but naught besides:And showed such pride as, while her luck betides,A..

It is not given to every man to take a bath of multitude; enjoying a crowd is an art; and only he can relish a debauch of vitality at the expense of..

La sottise, l'erreur, le péché, la lésine,Occupent nos esprits et travaillent nos corps,Et nous alimentons nos aimables remords,Comme les mendiants..

Remember that object we saw, dear soul,In the sweetness of a summer morn:At a bend of the path a loathsome carrionOn a bed with pebbles strewn,With..

Soon we will plunge ourselves into cold shadows,And all of summer's stunning afternoons will be gone.I already hear the dead thuds of logs..

Reubens, river of forgetfulness, garden of sloth,Pillow of wet flesh that one cannot love,But where life throngs and seethes without ceaseLike the..

Alone, at last! Not a sound to be heard but the rumbling of some belated and decrepit cabs. For a few hourswe shall have silence, if not repose. At..

They are alike, prim scholar and perfervid lover:When comes the season of decay, they both decideUpon sweet, husky cats to be the household..