THE FOUNTAIN poem by CHARLES BAUDELAIRE The Flowers of Evil
Charles Baudelaire
The fountain
( In French: Le Jet d’eau )
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Baudelaire – The flowers of evil
French literature – poetry
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Charles Baudelaire
The fountain
French poetry
Full text translated into English
My poor mistress!
your lovely eyes Are tired,
leave them closed and keep
For long the nonchalant pose
In which pleasure surprised you.
In the court the bubbling fountain
That’s never silent night or day
Sweetly sustains the ecstasy
Into which love plunged me tonight.
The sheaf unfolds into
Countless flowers
In which joyful Phoebe
Puts her colors:
It drops like a shower
Of heavy tears.
Thus your soul which is set ablaze
By the burning flash of pleasure
Springs heavenward, fearless and swift,
Toward the boundless, enchanted skies.
And then it overflows, dying
In a wave of languid sadness
That by an invisible slope
Descends to the depths of my heart.
The sheaf unfolds into
Countless flowers
In which joyful Phoebe
Puts her colors:
It drops like a shower
Of heavy tears.
Oh you whom the night makes so fair,
How sweet, bending over your breast,
To listen to the endless plaint
Of the sobbing of the fountains!
Moon, singing water, blessed night,
Trees that quiver round about us,
Your innocent melancholy
Is the mirror of my love.
The sheaf unfolds into
Countless flowers
In which joyful Phoebe
Puts her colors:
It drops like a shower
Of heavy tears.
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Charles Baudelaire – The fountain
In original French: Le Jet d’eau
From book: The flowers of evil
French poetry
Full Text translated into English
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