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  • The Flowers of Evil

    Charles Baudelaire

    Paperback (Forgotten Books, March 18, 2010)
    Benediction When by the changeless Power of a Supreme Decree The poet issues forth upon this sorry sphere, His mother, horrified, and full of blasphemy, Uplifts her voice to God, who takes compassion on her. " Ah, why did I not bear a serpent's nest entire, Instead of bringing forth this hideous Child of Doom ! Oh cursed be that transient night of vain desire When I conceived my expiation in my womb ! * " Yet since among all women thou hast chosen me To be the degradation of my jaded mate, And since I cannot like a love-leaf wantonly Consign this stunted monster to the glowing grate," " I'll cause thine overwhelming hatred to rebound Upon the cursed tool of thy most wicked spite. Forsooth, the branches of this wretched tree I'll wound And rob its pestilential blossoms of their might!" So thus, she giveth vent unto her foaming ire, And knowing not the changeless statutes of all times, Herself, amid the flames of hell, prepares the pyre; The consecrated penance of maternal cTable of Contents CONTENTS; Benediction ; Echoes ••• •••; The Sick Muse; The Venal Muse; The Evil Monk; The Enemy ; Ill-Luck; Interior Life; Man and the Sea; Beauty; The Ideal; The Giantess ; Hymn to Beauty; Exotic Perfume; La Chevelure ; Sonnet XXVIII; Posthumous Remorse; The Balcony ; The Possessed One; Semper Eadem ; All Entire; Sonnet XLIII ; The Living Torch The Spiritual Dawn; Evening Harmony 33; Overcast Sky 34; Invitation to a Journey • 35; "Causeiie" 37; Autumn Song ?•• 3^; Sisina 39; To a Creolean Lady 4°; Moesta et Errabunda 41; The Ghost 43; Autumn Song 44; Sadness of the Moon-Goddess 45; Cats 46; Owls ••• 47; Music ••• 48; The Joyous Defunct 49; The Broken Bell 5°; Spleen 51; Obsession 5 2; Magnetic Horror 53; The Lid 54; Bertha's Eyes 55; The Set of the Romantic Sun 56; Meditation ••? ••• 57; To a Passer-by 5&; Illusionary Love 59; Mists and Rains 60; The Wine of Lovers 61; Condemned Women 62; The Death of the
  • The Flowers of Evil

    Charles Baudelaire, Cyril Scott

    Paperback (CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, March 6, 2017)
    The Flowers of Evil by Charles Baudelaire Translated into English Verse by Cyril Scott Les Fleurs du mal or in English: The Flowers of Evil, is a volume of French poetry by Charles Baudelaire. First published in 1857, it was important in the symbolist and modernist movements. The poems deal with themes relating to decadence and eroticism. The author and the publisher were prosecuted under the regime of the Second Empire as an outrage aux bonnes moeurs ("an insult to public decency"). As a consequence of this prosecution, Baudelaire was fined 300 francs. Six poems from the work were suppressed and the ban on their publication was not lifted in France until 1949. These poems were "Lesbos"; "Femmes damnees (A la pale clarte)" (or "Women Doomed (In the pale glimmer...)"); "Le Lethe"; "A celle qui est trop gaie" (or "To Her Who Is Too Gay"); "Les Bijoux" (or "The Jewels"); and " Les "Metamorphoses du Vampire" (or "The Vampire's Metamorphoses"). These were later published in Brussels in a small volume entitled Les Epaves (Scraps or Jetsam).
  • The Flowers of Evil

    C BAUDELAIRE

    (New Directions Publishing, Oct. 6, 1989)
    This bold new translation with facing French text restores once banned poems to their original places and reveals the full richness and variety of the collection. This book is intended for general readers interested in Baudelaire, French poetry and 19th-century French culture. Students of Baudelaire, French literature.
  • Flowers of Evil

    Charles Baudelaire

    Hardcover (The Limited Editions Club, Jan. 1, 1971)
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  • The Flowers of Evil by Charles Baudelaire - Del Prado Miniature

    Charles Baudelaire

    Hardcover (Del Prado, Jan. 1, 2003)
    A splendid Del Prado miniature of Charles Baudelaire's classic "The Flowers of Evil". This is a scarce title from the expertly-bound Miniature Classics Library by Del Prado. There are 101 volumes in the complete set. Books are 332 to 640 pages in length, and nearly 55,000 pages in the set. All books feature professionally Smyth-sewn bindings and measure approximately 2" x 2.5" each. Most measure 1" or thicker. Text blocks are printed in black with red page numbers and highlights. Other titles include: Beowulf, Aesop's Fables, Divine Comedy (in 3 volumes), Adventures of Peter Pan, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Canterbury Tales (in 3 volumes), Silas Marner (in 2 volumes), Taras Bulba, Scarlet Letter (in 2 volumes), Homer's Odyssey (in 2 volumes), Irving's Alhambra (in 2 volumes), Kafka's Metamorphosis, Endymion (in 2 volumes), Jungle Book, Utopia, Ovid's Heroides, Pascal's Thoughts (in 2 volumes), Petrarch's Canzoniere (in 2 volumes), Poe's House of Usher, Scott's Bride of Lammermoor (in 2 volumes), Macbeth, Much Ado About Nothing, Pigmalion, Frankenstein (in 2 volumes), Oedipus Rex, Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde, Treasure Island, Gulliver's Travels, Tolstoy's Death of Ivan Ilych, Prince & the Pauper (in 2 volumes), Verne's Round the Moon, Virgil's Bucolics, Voltaire's Candide, William Tell, Wells' Time Machine, Leaves of Grass (in 2 volumes), Importance of Being Earnest, and more. Books of poetry include those by Coleridge, Dickenson, Donne, Rossetti, Rilke, and Wordsworth.
  • Flowers of Evil

    Charles Baudelaire, James Laver, Jacob Epstein

    Hardcover (Printed for members of the Limited editions club at the Fanfare press, Jan. 1, 1940)
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  • The Flowers of Evil

    Charles Baudelaire, Marthiel Mathews, Jackson Mathews

    Hardcover (Unknown, Jan. 1, 1955)
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  • The Flowers of Evil

    Charles Baudelaire, Cyril Scott

    Hardcover (Andesite Press, Aug. 8, 2015)
    This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
  • Flowers of evil

    Charles Baudelaire

    (Peter Pauper Press, July 6, 1958)
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  • Baudelaire, Charles

    Charles Baudelaire

    (Phaidon, Jan. 1, 1970)
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  • Flowers of Evil from the French of Charles Baudelaire, with the Original Texts and with an Introduction By Miss Millay

    Charles. George Dillon and Edna St. Vincent Millay Baudelaire

    (Harper and Brothers, Jan. 1, 1936)
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  • Flowers of Evil

    Charles Baudelaire

    (New Directions., Jan. 1, 1962)
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