Sonnet XXVIII

Charles Baudelaire & Cyril Scott * Track #53 On The Flowers of Evil (translated by Cyril Scott)

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Charles Baudelaire

1909

Sonnet XXVIII by Charles Baudelaire (Ft. Cyril Scott)

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Charles BaudelaireCyril Scott

Sonnet XXVIII Annotated

With pearly robes that wave within the wind,
Even when she walks, she seems to dance,
Like swaying serpents round those wands entwined
Which fakirs ware in rhythmic elegance.

So like the desert's Blue, and the sands remote,
Both, deaf to mortal suffering and to strife,
Or like the sea-weeds 'neath the waves that float,
Indifferently she moulds her budding life.

Her polished eyes are made of minerals bright,
And in her mien, symbolical and cold,
Wherein an angel mingles with a sphinx of old,

Where all is gold, and steel, and gems, and light,
There shines, just like a useless star eternally,
The sterile woman's frigid majesty.

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