Poems by Charles Baudelaire

Author:Charles Baudelaire [Baudelaire, Charles]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 978-0-375-71273-9
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Published: 2015-02-17T05:00:00+00:00

Whether they mince like marionettes or drag

themselves along like wounded animals,

they dance – against their will, the creatures dance –

sad bells on which a merciless Devil tugs.

They waver, but their eyes are gimlet-sharp

and gleam like holes where water sleeps at night –

the eyes of a child, a little girl who laughs

in sacred wonder at whatever shines!

– The coffins of old women are often the size

of a child’s, have you ever noticed? Erudite

Death, by making the caskets match, suggests

a tidy symbol, if in dubious taste,

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