Selected Poems (Penguin Classics) by Charles-Pierre Baudelaire

Author:Charles-Pierre Baudelaire [Baudelaire, Charles-Pierre]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781101493649
Publisher: Penguin Group USA, Inc.
Published: 2009-11-26T05:00:00+00:00

I see only in the mind’s eye that camp of shacks, those piles of roughed-out capitals and sections of columns, the weeds, the great blocks turning green in the water of the puddles, and, reflected in the windows, the nameless jumble.

That was the site of a menagerie; there I saw, one morning, at the hour when under the cold, clear sky work is stirring, when the dustcarts send up a dark hurricane into the silent air,

A swan that had escaped from its cage, and, rubbing its webbed feet on the dry pavement, was dragging its white plumage on the rough ground. Near a dry gutter the creature, opening its beak,

Was nervously bathing its wings in the dust, and saying, its heart full of its beautiful native lake, ‘Water, when will you rain down? When will you thunder, o lightning?’ I see the poor wretch, strange and ineluctable myth,

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