N'est ce pas qu'il est doux-In (Is it not pleasant)

Charles Baudelaire 1821 (Paris) – 1867 (Paris)



Is it not pleasant, now we are tired,
and tarnished, like other men, to search for those fires
in the furthest East, where, again, we might see
morning's new dawn, and, in mad history,
hear the echoes, that vanish behind us, the sighs
of the young loves, God gives, at the start of our lives?

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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on April 26, 2023

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Closest metre Iambic hexameter
Characters 295
Words 57
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 6

Charles Baudelaire

Charles Pierre Baudelaire was a French poet who also produced notable work as an essayist, art critic, and pioneering translator of Edgar Allan Poe. more…

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