Classic and Contemporary Poetry
THE TOMB OF CHARLES BAUDELAIRE, by STEPHANE MALLARME Poet's Biography First Line: Through its sepulchral sewer mouth, ozzing mud and rubies Last Line: Always for us to breathe even if we perish from it. Subject(s): Baudelaire, Charles (1821-1867); French Poetry - Symbolism; Poetry & Poets | ||||||||
Through its sepulchral sewer mouth, oozing mud and rubies, The buried temple discloses Abominably some Anubis idol The whole snout in flames as if barking fiercely Or let the modern gaslight twist the squinting wick Enduring, one knows, the shames suffered, It lights up, haggard, an immortal pubis Whose image, as if in flight, dissolves according to the reflected gaslight What dried-up foliage, votive, in the cities without evening Will be able to consecrate like the shade which settles itself Vainly against the marble slab of Baudelaire In the veil which encircles it absent, quivering This is his Ghost itself, a tutelary poison Always for us to breathe even if we perish from it. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...ENVY OF OTHER PEOPLE'S POEMS by ROBERT HASS THE NINETEENTH CENTURY AS A SONG by ROBERT HASS THE FATALIST: TIME IS FILLED by LYN HEJINIAN OXOTA: A SHORT RUSSIAN NOVEL: CHAPTER 192 by LYN HEJINIAN LET ME TELL YOU WHAT A POEM BRINGS by JUAN FELIPE HERRERA JUNE JOURNALS 6/25/88 by JUAN FELIPE HERRERA FOLLOW ROZEWICZ by JUAN FELIPE HERRERA HAVING INTENDED TO MERELY PICK ON AN OIL COMPANY, THE POEM GOES AWRY by HICOK. BOB A FRAGMENT by STEPHANE MALLARME A THROW OF THE DICE NEVER WILL ABOLISH CHANCE by STEPHANE MALLARME |
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