C. BAUDELAIRE THE FLOWERS OF EVIL The sadness of the Moon EN
Charles Baudelaire
The sadness of the Moon
In French: Tristesse de la lune
Poem from book:
Baudelaire – The flowers of evil
French literature – poetry
Full text translated into English
The sadness of the moon (Fra: Tristesse de la lune) is a poem by Charles Baudelaire, published in the famous book of poetry collections of the great poet: The flowers of evil.
Below the text of the poem by Charles Baudelaire: “Sadness of the moon” translated into English.
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Charles Baudelaire
The sadness of the Moon
French poetry
Full text translated into English
This evening the Moon dreams more languidly,
Like a beauty who on many cushions rests,
And with her light hand fondles lingeringly,
Before she sleeps, the slope of her sweet breasts.
On her soft satined avalanches’ height
Dying, she laps herself for hours and hours
In long, long swoons, and gazes at the white
Visions which rise athwart the blue-like flowers.
When sometimes in her perfect indolence
She lets a furtive tear steal gently thence,
Some pious poet, a lone, sleepless one,
Takes in his hollowed hand this gem, shot through,
Like an opal stone, with gleams of every hue,
And in his heart’s
depths hides it
from the sun.
…
..
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Charles Baudelaire – The sadness of the Moon
poem from: The flowers of evil
French poetry – English translation
Charles Baudelaire Sadness of the Moon original text in French > here
Charles Baudelaire All poems > here
Video Audiobook in English
The Sadness of the Moon – Charles Baudelaire
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