The Ideal

Charles Baudelaire & Cyril Scott * Track #54 On The Flowers of Evil (translated by Cyril Scott)

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Charles Baudelaire

1909

The Ideal by Charles Baudelaire (Ft. Cyril Scott)

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Charles BaudelaireCyril Scott

The Ideal Annotated

It could ne'er be those beauties of ivory vignettes;
The varied display of a worthless age,
Nor puppet-like figures with castonets,
That ever an heart like mine could engage.

I leave to Gavarni, that poet of chlorosis,
His hospital-beauties in troups that whirl,
For I cannot discover amid his pale roses
A flower to resemble my scarlet ideal.

Since, what for this fathomless heart I require
Is—Lady Macbeth you! in crime so dire;
—An Æschylus dream transposed from the South—

Or thee, oh great "Night" of Michael-Angelo born,
Who so calmly thy limbs in strange posture hath drawn,
Whose allurements are framed for a Titan's mouth.

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