Poem MAN AND THE SEA by C. BAUDELAIRE book FLOWERS OF EVIL
Charles Baudelaire
Man and the Sea
In French: L’homme et la mer
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Baudelaire – The flowers of evil
French literature – poetry
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Charles Baudelaire
Man and the Sea
French poetry
Full text translated into English
Always, unfettered man, you will cherish the sea!
The sea your mirror, you look into your mind
In its eternal billows surging without end
And its gulfs are bitter, so must your spirit be.
You plunge with joy into this image of your own:
You hug it with your eyes and arms; your heart
Forgets for a time its noisy beat, becomes a part
Of a greater, more savage and less tameable moan.
In your own ways, you both are brooding and discreet:
Man, no one has mapped your chasm’s hidden floor,
Oh sea, no one knows your inmost riches, for
Your jealousy hides secrets none can repeat.
As the uncounted swarm of centuries gathers
You two have fought without pity or remorse, both
From sheer love of the slaughter and of death,
Oh, eternal wrestlers, oh, relentless brothers!
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Charles Baudelaire – Poem Man and the Sea
In original French: L’homme et la mer
French poetry
Full Text translated into English
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