Les Fleurs du Mal: The Flowers of Evil: the complete dual language edition, fully revised and updated by Charles Baudelaire

Author:Charles Baudelaire [Baudelaire, Charles]
Language: eng
Format: azw3
Publisher: Bishopston Editions
Published: 2018-09-04T00:00:00+00:00

Bells spring to life abruptly and ferociously,

Sending toward the sky their strident, fearsome sound,

Like homeless souls that rise and wander aimlessly,

Weeping and wailing as they drag themselves around.

— And a cortège of hearses, slowly, silently,

Meanders through my soul, where vanquished Hope is dead;

While Anguish, cruel despot, plants triumphantly

His evil standard on my subjugated head.

XCII. — L’IMPRÉVU

Harpagon, qui veillait son père agonisant,

Se dit, rêveur, devant ces lèvres déjà blanches:

«Nous avons au grenier un nombre suffisant,

Ce me semble, de vieilles planches?»

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