To the Reader

1

 

Benediction

2

 

The Albatross

3

 

Elevation

4

 

Correspondences

5

 

 

I love the memory of those naked epochs...

6

 

 

The Beacons

 

7

 

The Sick Muse

 

8

 

The Venal Muse

9

 

The Bad Monk

10

 

The Enemy

11

 

Bad Luck

12

 

Past Life

13

 

 

Traveling Gypsies

14

 

Man and the Sea

15

 

Don Juan in Hell

16

 

 

Beauty

17

 

Punishment of Pride

18

 

The Ideal

19

 

The Giantess

20

 

 

The Mask

21

 

Hymn to Beauty

22

 

Exotic Perfume

23

 

Hair

 

24

 

I adore you as much as the nocturnal vault..

 

25

 

You would take the entire world to bed with you...

26

 

Never Satisfied

27

 

With her pearly undulating dresses..

29

 

 

The Dancing Serpent

30

 

A Carcass

30

 

The Abyss

31

 

 

The Vampire

32

 

One night when I lay beside a frightful Jewess...

33

 

Posthumous Remorse

34

 

The Cat

35

 

 

The Duel

36

 

The Balcony

37

 

The Possessed

 

38_1

 

Darkness

 

38_2

 

 

Exotic Perfume

38_3

 

The frame

 

 

38_4

 

The portrait

39

 

I give you these verses so if my name...

40

 

Always the Same

41

 

The unimpaired

 

42

 

What will you say tonight, poor solitary soul..

43

 

The Living Torch

44

 

Reversibility

45

 

Confession

46

 

Spiritual Dawn

47

 

Evening Harmony

48

 

The Perfume Flask

49

 

Poison

50

 

 

Cloudy Sky

51

 

The Cat

52

 

The Beautiful Ship

53

 

Invitation to the Voyage

54

 

Irreversibly

55

 

Conversation

56

 

Autumn Song

57

 

 

To a Madonna

58

 

Afternoon Song

59

 

Sisina

60

 

In Praise of My Frances

61

 

To a Creole Lady

62

 

Grieving and Wandering

63

The ghost

64

 

Autumn Sonnet

65

 

Sorrows of the Moon

66

 

 

The Cats

67

 

The Owls

68

 

The pipe

69

 

Music

70

 

Sepulchral

71

 

A Fantastic Engraving

72

 

The happy dead

73

 

Flowers of Evil

74

 

The Broken Bell

75

 

Spleen (I have more memories...)

76

 

Spleen (I'm like the king...)

77

Spleen (Pluvius, irritated...)..?

78

 

Spleen (When the sky low and heavy...)

79

 

Obsession

 

80

Thirst for nonexistence

Always the Same

81

 

The Alchemy of Grief

82

 

Sympathetic Horror

83

 

The Self-Tormentor

84

 

Irretrievable

85

 

The Clock

86

 

Landscape

87

 

The Sun

88

 

To a Mendicant Redhead

89

 

The Swan

90

 

The Seven Old Men

91

 

The Little Old Ladies

92

 

 

The Blind

93

 

To a Passerby

94

 

The Hard-Working Skeleton

95

 

Evening Crepuscular

96

 

Gambling

97

 

Dance Macabre

98

 

The Love of Lies

99

 

I have not forgotten, near the city...

 

100

 

The kind-hearted servant of whom you were jealous...

101

 

Mists and Rains

102

 

Parisian Dream

103

 

Morning Crepuscule

104

 

The Soul of Wine

 

105

 

The Rag-Picker's Wine

106

 

The Murderer's Wine

107

 

The Lonely Man's Wine

108

 

Always the Same

109

 

Destruction

110

 

A Martyr

111

 

Women Doomed

112

 

The Two Good Sisters

113

 

The Fountain of Blood

114

 

Allegory

115

Beatriche

116

 

A Voyage to Cythera

117

 

Love and the Skull

118

 

The Denial of Saint Peter

119

 

Abel and Cain

120

 

The Litanies of Satan

121

 

The Death of Lovers

122

 

The Death of the Poor

123

 

The Death of Artists

124

 

End of the Day

125

 

The Dream of a Curious Man

126

 

 

The Voyage

 

127

 

Sunset of Romanticism

128

 

Hymn

129

 

Lethe

130

 

 

The Jewels

131

 

Hymn

 

132

 

On Eugene Delacroix's Tasso in Prison

133

 

To a Lady of Malabar

134

 

Epigraph for a Condemned Book

135

 

Midnight Examination of Consience

136

 

Sad Madrigal

137

 

The Warner

138

 

 

The Rebel

139

Far, far away

Quite Far from Here

....................................

140

 

The Abyss Obsession absorption

141

 

The Abyss

142

 

The Laments of an Icarus

143

 

 

 

The Cover

     

 

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Nikolay Maystorov

Always the Same
Charles Baudelaire's
1986

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