(P/B) BAUDELAIRE: COMPLETE POEMS

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"A gradual numbness spreads through streets and homes.
Be patient, Pain, and tranquillised, at best;
You wanted Evening back, and here it comes,
Bringing anxiety to some, to others rest.
While mortal vermin race to harvest shame
And kiss relentless Pleasure's whip as fast
As it can punish them, and make them swarm,
Walk hand in hand away with me at last,
Far from it all. The Past, in faded gown,
From her dress circle in the sky leans down.
See how Regret smiles, rising from the deep;
The Sun, under a bridge, dies in his sleep.
And all across the West -- Listen, sweet Pain!
The Night unfurls her winding-sheet again.
on the author, cringing demiurge, who picks up
his litter and his tools and paces me back
to bed, stealthily in step." -- From "Meditation"

Rimbaud called him "le premier voyant, roi des poetes, un vrai dieu", and the history of modern poetry, which begins with him, has borne out that opinion. This is a comprehensive new translation of all Baudelaire's poetry, excluding only the juvenilia, occasional verse and work of doubtful attribution. It includes all the poems published in the first (1857) and second (1861) editions of the book, as well as those added to the third (1868), published after the poet's death. Baudelaire contemplated a volume of poems that would "launch him into the future like a cannonball", and here it is in vivid and formally authoritative translation. (From the publisher)

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Acknowledgements
Chronology
To the Reader
SPLEEN AND IDEAL
Benediction
The Albatros
Transcendence
Universal Analogies
I love the thought
The Guiding Lights
The Sick Muse
The Mercenary Muse
The Bad Monk
The Enemy
Bad Luck
Previous Existence
Roving Gypsies
Man and Sea
Don Juan in the Underworld
Punishment of Pride
Beauty
The Ideal
The Giantess
Jewels
The Mask
Hymn to Beauty
Exotic Scent
Her Hair
I love you as I love
When boredom gnaws
Still Unsatisfied
In glistening shot-silk
The Dancing Serpent
Carrion
Out of the Depths
The Vampire
Lethe
One night I had
Posthumous Remorse
Cat
Mortal Combat
The Balcony
Possessed
A Phantom
Black Brightness
The Scent
The Frame
The Portrait
These lines I give to you
Ever the Same
Total Harmony
What will you say
The Living Torch
Too Full of Life
Reversibility
Confession
Spiritual Dawn
Evening Harmony
The Perfume-flask
Poison
Uncertain Skies
Cat
The Proud Ship
Invitation to a Voyage
The Irreparable
Conversation
Song of Autumn
To a Madonna
Song for an Afternoon
Sisina
In Praise of My Francoise
To a Creole Lady
Restless and Sad
The Living Dead
Autumn Sonnet
The Melancholy Moon
Cats
Owls
Pipe
Music
A Burial
A Fantastic Engraving
The Carefree Corpse
The Cask of Hate
The Cracked Bell
Black Bile Pluvius
Black Bile Millenium
Black Bile Worthless
Black Bile When heavy
Obsession
Desire for Oblivion
The Alchemist of Sorrows
Sympathetic Horror
The Self-Tormentor
The Point of No Return
The Clock
PARISIAN SCENES
Landscape
The Sun
To a Red-headed Beggar
The Swan
The Seven Old Men
The Little Old Women
The Blind
A Passing Glance
Posthumous Work
Last Light
Games of Chance
Dancing Death
The Love of Artifice
I haven't forgotten
You were so jealous
Mist and Rain
Parisian Dream
First Light
WINE
The Spirit of the Wine
Ragpickers' Wine
Murderer's Wine
The Wine of the Solitary Man
Lovers' Wine
FLOWERS OF EVIL
Ruin
A Martyr
Lesbos
Damned Women (D & H)
Damned Women
Sisters of Mercy
Fountain of Blood
Allegory
My Beatrice
Metamorphoses of the Vampire
A Voyage to Cythera
Cupid and Skull
REBELLION
Saint Peter's Denial
Abel and Cain
Litanies to Satan
DEATH
The Death of Lovers
The Death of the Poor
The Death of Artists
The End of the Day
A Curious Man's Dream
Travellers
POEMS ADDED TO THE THIRD EDITION, 1868
Epigraph
Merciless Madrigal
The Pagan's Prayer
The Rebel
The Serpent's Tooth
Meditation
The Lid
The Affronted Moon
The Abyss
The Laments of an Icarus
The Examination of Conscience
A World Away
Last Rays
GALLANTRIES
The Girandole
Berthe's Eyes
Hymn
The Promise in a Pair of Eyes
Rara avis
EPIGRAPHS
On a Portrait of Daumier
Lola de Valence
Tasso in Prison
MISCELLANEA
To Theodore de Banville
The Voice
Out of the Blue
The Ransom
To a Girl in Malabar
BUFFOONERY
The Debut
Concerning a Jackass
A Lively Watering Hole
Sources
Afterthoughts
Index of Titles