somethingdarker

Herds at rest upon the sands - Charles Baudelaire "The Accursed" transl. not credited

In lost pagan caverns dark and deep - Charles Baudelaire "The Accursed" transl. not credited

That sharp poison which is sin - Charles Baudelaire "An Allegory" transl. not credited

Against the granite of her skin - Charles Baudelaire "An Allegory" transl. not credited

Forget the world's alarms - Charles Baudelaire "An Allegory" transl. not credited

The world's onward dream would fade - Charles Baudelaire "An Allegory" transl. not credited

From every sin the terror lift - Charles Baudelaire "An Allegory" transl. not credited

So as not to feel the horrible burden of time - Charles Baudelaire "Be Drunk" transl. by Louis Simpson

That breaks your back and bends you to the earth - Charles Baudelaire "Be Drunk" transl. by Louis Simpson

Wine, poetry or virtue, as you wish - Charles Baudelaire "Be Drunk" transl. by Louis Simpson

The convict's melancholy king - Charles Baudelaire "The Beacons" transl. not credited

The carnival of illustrious hearts - Charles Baudelaire "The Beacons" transl. not credited

Moths upon the wings of chance - Charles Baudelaire "The Beacons" transl. not credited

Through a thousand labyrinths flown - Charles Baudelaire "The Beacons" transl. not credited

A shout cried by a thousand sentinels - Charles Baudelaire "The Beacons" transl. not credited

Huntsmen in deep woodlands lost - Charles Baudelaire "The Beacons" transl. not credited

The cruel and curious demons of the air - Charles Baudelaire "La Beatrice" transl. not credited

As a crowd jeers some unhappy man - Charles Baudelaire "La Beatrice" transl. not credited

At leisure contemplate this clown - Charles Baudelaire "La Beatrice" transl. not credited

Have stilled these clamouring demons - Charles Baudelaire "La Beatrice" transl. not credited

In the middle of the troupe obscene - Charles Baudelaire "La Beatrice" transl. not credited

Lovely as a dream in stone - Charles Baudelaire "Beauty" transl. not credited

To fold enchantment round their hearts - Charles Baudelaire "Beauty" transl. not credited

By the high decree of powers supreme - Charles Baudelaire "The Benediction" transl. not credited

A writhing knot of unclean vipers - Charles Baudelaire "The Benediction" transl. not credited

These harpy talons understand - Charles Baudelaire "The Benediction" transl. not credited

Earth's and hell's destructive tooth - Charles Baudelaire "The Benediction" transl. not credited

Jewels lost in Palmyra of old - Charles Baudelaire "The Benediction" transl. not credited

Pearls of the outer sea - Charles Baudelaire "The Benediction" transl. not credited

Obscure mirrors, darkened and forlorn - Charles Baudelaire "The Benediction" transl. not credited

Be wise and tranquil still - Charles Baudelaire "Contemplation" transl. not credited

Gather remorseful blossoms - Charles Baudelaire "Contemplation" transl. not credited

A grassy couch with pebbles set - Charles Baudelaire "The Corpse" transl. not credited

Had given a hundredfold return - Charles Baudelaire "The Corpse" transl. not credited

Wander through a tangled wood - Charles Baudelaire "Correspondences" transl. not credited

The expansion of things infinite - Charles Baudelaire "Correspondences" transl. not credited

Eternal alembic of antique distress - Charles Baudelaire "The Dance of Death" transl. not credited

Please none but the brave - Charles Baudelaire "The Dance of Death" transl. not credited

Fed on graveyard charms - Charles Baudelaire "The Dance of Death" transl. not credited

The Angel's sinister trumpet raised - Charles Baudelaire "The Dance of Death" transl. not credited

Perfumes herself with myrrh - Charles Baudelaire "The Dance of Death" transl. not credited

Guarding their last embers - Charles Baudelaire "The Death of Lovers" transl. not credited

Our hearts shall be the torches - Charles Baudelaire "The Death of Lovers" transl. not credited

Drunk with Death's elixir - Charles Baudelaire "The Death of the Poor" transl. not credited

Whose magnetic palms bring dreams - Charles Baudelaire "The Death of the Poor" transl. not credited

Paid his obolus on the Stygian shore - Charles Baudelaire "Don Juan in Hades" transl. not credited

Upon his back an enormous Chimaera - Charles Baudelaire "Every Man His Chimaera" transl. not credited

In painted frescoes shown - Charles Baudelaire "The Evil Monk" transl. not credited

The pageant of my old distress - Charles Baudelaire "The Evil Monk" transl. not credited

Memory of the bitter flood - Charles Baudelaire "The Eyes of Beauty" transl. not credited

A ruin where the jackals rest - Charles Baudelaire "The Eyes of Beauty" transl. not credited

The ghosts of long-dead odours creep - Charles Baudelaire "The Flask" transl. not credited

Ghost of an old passion - Charles Baudelaire "The Flask" transl. not credited

Sweet poison mixed by angels - Charles Baudelaire "The Flask" transl. not credited

That mirrored all the skies - Charles Baudelaire "A Former Life" transl. not credited

Like this my blood measures its flowing - Charles Baudelaire "The Fountain of Blood" transl. by Rachel Hadas

Where the wound lies I've never understood - Charles Baudelaire "The Fountain of Blood" transl. by Rachel Hadas

Nothing in nature now remains unblooded - Charles Baudelaire "The Fountain of Blood" transl. by Rachel Hadas

Where bristling needles thirsted for each vein - Charles Baudelaire "The Fountain of Blood" transl. by Rachel Hadas

Treading the shadows silently - Charles Baudelaire "The Ghost" transl. not credited

Kisses as icy as the moon - Charles Baudelaire "The Ghost" transl. not credited

The caresses of a snake - Charles Baudelaire "The Ghost" transl. not credited

Cold gliding in the thorny brake - Charles Baudelaire "The Ghost" transl. not credited

My dark heart's deep desiring - Charles Baudelaire "The Ideal" transl. not credited

Michelangelo's dark daughter Night - Charles Baudelaire "The Ideal" transl. not credited

Fashioned for a giant's delight - Charles Baudelaire "The Ideal" transl. not credited

Share mysterious charms with your treacherous eyes - Charles Baudelaire "Invitation to the Voyage" transl. by Keith Waldrop

Rarest flowers, their odors vaguely mixed with amber - Charles Baudelaire "Invitation to the Voyage" transl. by Keith Waldrop

Everything there would address our souls - Charles Baudelaire "Invitation to the Voyage" transl. by Keith Waldrop

The world falling asleep in a warm light - Charles Baudelaire "Invitation to the Voyage" transl. by Keith Waldrop

Patient as the ants, and slow - Charles Baudelaire "The Irreparable" transl. not credited

Deep foundations suffer first - Charles Baudelaire "The Irreparable" transl. not credited

Beneath the bitter tooth accursed - Charles Baudelaire "The Irreparable" transl. not credited

The frail hand of a Fay - Charles Baudelaire "The Irreparable" transl. not credited

A being made of gauze and fire - Charles Baudelaire "The Irreparable" transl. not credited

The Fay with wings of fire - Charles Baudelaire "The Irreparable" transl. not credited

Watch the birth of stars in heaven - Charles Baudelaire "A Landscape" transl. not credited

Till Autumn fades the rose - Charles Baudelaire "A Landscape" transl. not credited

Winter with his weary snows - Charles Baudelaire "A Landscape" transl. not credited

And build my faery palace in the night - Charles Baudelaire "A Landscape" transl. not credited

Where the marble fountains weep - Charles Baudelaire "A Landscape" transl. not credited

Idyll built of innocent words - Charles Baudelaire "A Landscape" transl. not credited

Drawing the sun out of my heart - Charles Baudelaire "A Landscape" transl. not credited

Obedient to my fatal mood - Charles Baudelaire "The Little Old Women" transl. not credited

Where water sleeps at night - Charles Baudelaire "The Little Old Women" transl. not credited

Brimmed with a million tears - Charles Baudelaire "The Little Old Women" transl. not credited

Made a river with her tears - Charles Baudelaire "The Little Old Women" transl. not credited

Your lost days unroll before me - Charles Baudelaire "The Little Old Women" transl. not credited

And cast their diamond fires - Charles Baudelaire "The Living Flame" transl. not credited

Obeys the living flame - Charles Baudelaire "The Living Flame" transl. not credited

Candles lighted at full noon - Charles Baudelaire "The Living Flame" transl. not credited

My soul's awakening hymn - Charles Baudelaire "The Living Flame" transl. not credited

Love cold steel and powder - Charles Baudelaire "A Madrigal of Sorrow" transl. not credited

And shudder at the striking hour - Charles Baudelaire "A Madrigal of Sorrow" transl. not credited

Heartless pleasure swinging its barbed knout - Charles Baudelaire "Meditation" transl. by David Yezzi

As the dead years lurch, in tattered clothes - Charles Baudelaire "Meditation" transl. by David Yezzi

From the depths, regret emerges with a grin - Charles Baudelaire "Meditation" transl. by David Yezzi

The spent sun passes out beneath an arch - Charles Baudelaire "Meditation" transl. by David Yezzi

Where revels the cold wind - Charles Baudelaire "Mist and Rain" transl. not credited

The long pageant of your shadows - Charles Baudelaire "Mist and Rain" transl. not credited

On moonless eves to weep - Charles Baudelaire "Mist and Rain" transl. not credited

And rock our griefs to sleep - Charles Baudelaire "Mist and Rain" transl. not credited

Drinking the winds that flee - Charles Baudelaire "Music" transl. not credited

In our hearts of stone, where ancient sobs vibrate - Charles Baudelaire "Obsession" transl. by Cyril Scott

My spirit finds them in himself - Charles Baudelaire "Obsession" transl. by Cyril Scott

This bitter glee of vanquished mortals - Charles Baudelaire "Obsession" transl. by Cyril Scott

Full of insults and of sobs - Charles Baudelaire "Obsession" transl. by Cyril Scott

I hear it in the mighteous laughter of the sea - Charles Baudelaire "Obsession" transl. by Cyril Scott

Those starry rays which speak a language known - Charles Baudelaire "Obsession" transl. by Cyril Scott

For I desire the dark, the naked and the lone - Charles Baudelaire "Obsession" transl. by Cyril Scott

Those darknesses to me are veils - Charles Baudelaire "Obsession" transl. by Cyril Scott

Long, long departed Beings with familiar glance - Charles Baudelaire "Obsession" transl. by Cyril Scott

Dark owls sit in solemn state - Charles Baudelaire "The Owls" transl. not credited

Until that melancholy hour - Charles Baudelaire "The Owls" transl. not credited

Reduced to a damp vault and hollow grave - Charles Baudelaire "Posthumous Remorse" transl. by Keith Waldrop

Already lulled by a charmed indifference - Charles Baudelaire "Posthumous Remorse" transl. by Keith Waldrop

Confidant to my infinite dream - Charles Baudelaire "Posthumous Remorse" transl. by Keith Waldrop

Since the tomb understands the poet always - Charles Baudelaire "Posthumous Remorse" transl. by Keith Waldrop

Those long nights in which slumber is banished - Charles Baudelaire "Posthumous Remorse" transl. by Keith Waldrop

Not to have known what the dead weep for - Charles Baudelaire "Posthumous Remorse" transl. by Keith Waldrop

The deep heart of a black marble - Charles Baudelaire "The Remorse of the Dead" transl. not credited

Only one rainy cave of hollow gloom - Charles Baudelaire "The Remorse of the Dead" transl. not credited

Who shares my reverie - Charles Baudelaire "The Remorse of the Dead" transl. not credited

In the shade and tears of gall - Charles Baudelaire "Reversibility" transl. not credited

Seeking the sun in vain - Charles Baudelaire "Reversibility" transl. not credited

To the waving cadence of a rod - Charles Baudelaire "Robed in a Silken Robe" transl. not credited

Sad sand upon the desert's verge - Charles Baudelaire "Robed in a Silken Robe" transl. not credited

Carved of minerals pure and cold - Charles Baudelaire "Robed in a Silken Robe" transl. not credited

An angel mingles with the sphinx - Charles Baudelaire "Robed in a Silken Robe" transl. not credited

In his hollow hand the tear of snow - Charles Baudelaire "The Sadness of the Moon" transl. not credited

Brought alms in floods upon his head - Charles Baudelaire "The Seven Old Men" transl. not credited

Never trembled at a fear like mine - Charles Baudelaire "The Seven Old Men" transl. not credited

With midnight visions burn - Charles Baudelaire "The Sick Muse" transl. not credited

Climes that flames enfold - Charles Baudelaire "The Sky" transl. not credited

A strangling cavern wall - Charles Baudelaire "The Sky" transl. not credited

Nor their black legend write - Charles Baudelaire "Sonnet of Autumn" transl. not credited

Sang the soul of wine - Charles Baudelaire "The Soul of Wine" transl. not credited

A song of love and light divine - Charles Baudelaire "The Soul of Wine" transl. not credited

In glass beneath my seals of red - Charles Baudelaire "The Soul of Wine" transl. not credited

Life's fragile athlete - Charles Baudelaire "The Soul of Wine" transl. not credited

And howls as if a ghost could hate the cold - Charles Baudelaire "Spleen" transl. by Richard Howard

Pours a gloomy torrent on the pale lessees - Charles Baudelaire "Spleen" transl. by Richard Howard

And a mortal chill on tenants of the foggy suburbs - Charles Baudelaire "Spleen" transl. by Richard Howard

The soul of some old poet haunts the drains - Charles Baudelaire "Spleen" transl. by Richard Howard

Hides so many secrets as my brain - Charles Baudelaire "Spleen" transl. by Richard Howard

This pyramid contains more corpses than the potter's field - Charles Baudelaire "Spleen" transl. by Richard Howard

I am a graveyard that the moon abhors - Charles Baudelaire "Spleen" transl. by Richard Howard

Inhale the scent of long-unstoppered flasks - Charles Baudelaire "Spleen" transl. by Richard Howard

Under the heavy weather of the years - Charles Baudelaire "Spleen" transl. by Richard Howard

Gains the dimension of eternity - Charles Baudelaire "Spleen" transl. by Richard Howard

No more than a rock encircled by a nameless dread - Charles Baudelaire "Spleen" transl. by Richard Howard

An ancient sphinx omitted from the map - Charles Baudelaire "Spleen" transl. by Richard Howard

The alchemist who brews him gold - Charles Baudelaire "Spleen" transl. by Richard Howard

Has failed to purge the impure substance from his soul - Charles Baudelaire "Spleen" transl. by Richard Howard

Rome's legacy recalled by certain barons in their failing days - Charles Baudelaire "Spleen" transl. by Richard Howard

Through which no blood but brackish Lethe seeps - Charles Baudelaire "Spleen" transl. by Richard Howard

Hidden in the gloom the sun pours down - Charles Baudelaire "Spleen" transl. by Richard Howard

A daylight dingier than the dark - Charles Baudelaire "Spleen" transl. by Richard Howard

When rain falls straight from unrelenting clouds - Charles Baudelaire "Spleen" transl. by Richard Howard

Forging the bars of some enormous jail - Charles Baudelaire "Spleen" transl. by Richard Howard

Spin their webs across the basements of our brains - Charles Baudelaire "Spleen" transl. by Richard Howard

Hurling to heaven their awful caterwaul - Charles Baudelaire "Spleen" transl. by Richard Howard

Homeless ghosts with no one left to haunt - Charles Baudelaire "Spleen" transl. by Richard Howard

The oppressor Dread plants his black flag on my assenting skull - Charles Baudelaire "Spleen" transl. by Richard Howard

Who rules a land of rains - Charles Baudelaire "Spleen" transl. not credited

Ignorant of the latitude - Charles Baudelaire "The Stranger" transl. not credited

Swoon like one trembling heart - Charles Baudelaire "Sunset" transl. not credited

Makes firm her dark domain - Charles Baudelaire "Sunset" transl. not credited

And terrors glide between - Charles Baudelaire "Sunset" transl. not credited

Footsteps on the marsh's rim - Charles Baudelaire "Sunset" transl. not credited

The cold snail and crawling toad unseen - Charles Baudelaire "Sunset" transl. not credited

All my fertile memory blossom - Charles Baudelaire "The Swan" transl. not credited

Whom one great desire gnaws - Charles Baudelaire "The Swan" transl. not credited

Beyond the mighty walls of fog - Charles Baudelaire "The Swan" transl. not credited

Of all who drink of tears - Charles Baudelaire "The Swan" transl. not credited

Tread the roads of chance - Charles Baudelaire "To a Brown Beggar-Maid" transl. not credited

Set round with starry crystal rhymes - Charles Baudelaire "To a Madonna" transl. not credited

And weave it of my jealousy - Charles Baudelaire "To a Madonna" transl. not credited

Weighted down with my distrust - Charles Baudelaire "To a Madonna" transl. not credited

Reap the far star-gold - Charles Baudelaire "The Venal Muse" transl. not credited

Flee from the tyrant Circe's witcheries - Charles Baudelaire "The Voyage" transl. not credited

A wandering heart drives them to fly - Charles Baudelaire "The Voyage" transl. not credited

The clouds that veil a star - Charles Baudelaire "The Voyage" transl. not credited

Wandering ships outwearied - Charles Baudelaire "The Voyage" transl. not credited

Seeker after lands that flee - Charles Baudelaire "The Voyage" transl. not credited

Cities of enchanted sleep - Charles Baudelaire "The Voyage" transl. not credited

The casket where your memories are - Charles Baudelaire "The Voyage" transl. not credited

Lift the sorrow from my mind - Charles Baudelaire "The Voyage" transl. not credited

My spirit like a sail outspread - Charles Baudelaire "The Voyage" transl. not credited

The unquiet wish to fly - Charles Baudelaire "The Voyage" transl. not credited

In the glimmering distance of the sky - Charles Baudelaire "The Voyage" transl. not credited

Shaped from the floating cloud - Charles Baudelaire "The Voyage" transl. not credited

More fair than the tall cypress - Charles Baudelaire "The Voyage" transl. not credited

From top to bottom of the fatal stair - Charles Baudelaire "The Voyage" transl. not credited

Now as in a bygone hour - Charles Baudelaire "The Voyage" transl. not credited

Troops herded by destiny - Charles Baudelaire "The Voyage" transl. not credited

In opiate slumber furled - Charles Baudelaire "The Voyage" transl. not credited

Horror's oasis in the sands of sorrow - Charles Baudelaire "The Voyage" transl. not credited

Time, the grim and eager foe - Charles Baudelaire "The Voyage" transl. not credited

Embark upon the Shadowy Sea - Charles Baudelaire "The Voyage" transl. not credited

Set upon the scented Lotus flower - Charles Baudelaire "The Voyage" transl. not credited

Weary of the gloomy north - Charles Baudelaire "The Voyage" transl. not credited

Sleepy poison in the cup - Charles Baudelaire "The Voyage" transl. not credited

On the wing of the wild whirlwind - Charles Baudelaire "The Wine of Lovers"

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