<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=354434" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Horreur sympathique (Sympathetic Horror)</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">De ce ciel bizarre et livide,<br>Tourmenté comme ton destin, <br>Quels pensers dans ton âme vide<br>Descendent? réponds, libertin.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">— Insatiablement avide<br>De l'obscur et de l'incertain,<br>Je ne geindrai pas comme Ovide<br>Chassé du paradis latin.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Cieux déchirés comme des grèves<br>En vous se mire mon orgueil;<br>Vos vastes nuages en deuil</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Sont les corbillards de mes rêves,<br>Et vos lueurs sont le reflet<br>De l'Enfer où mon coeur se plaît.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Reflected Horror</div><div style="margin:10px 0">From that sky, bizarre and livid, <br>Distorted as your destiny, <br>What thoughts into your empty soul <br>Descend? Answer me, libertine.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">— Insatiably avid <br>For the dark and the uncertain, <br>I shall not whimper like Ovid <br>Chased from his Latin paradise.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Skies torn like the shores of the sea,<br>You are the mirror of my pride;<br>Your vast clouds in mourning</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Are the black hearses of my dreams, <br>And your gleams are the reflection <br>Of the Hell which delights my heart.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>— Translated by William Aggeler</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Sympathetic Horror </div><div style="margin:10px 0">From livid skies that, without end, <br>As stormy as your future roll, <br>What thoughts into your empty soul <br>(Answer me, libertine!) descend?</div><div style="margin:10px 0">— Insatiable yet for all <br>That turns on darkness, doom, or dice, <br>I'll not, like Ovid, mourn my fall, <br>Chased from the Latin paradise.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Skies, torn like seacoasts by the storm!<br>In you I see my pride take form,<br>And the huge clouds that rush in streams</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Are the black hearses of my dreams, <br>And your red rays reflect the hell, <br>In which my heart is pleased to dwell.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>— Translated by Roy Campbell</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Charles+Baudelaire">Charles Baudelaire</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=354434" data-title="Horreur sympathique (Sympathetic Horror) de Charles Baudelaire" data-description="De ce ciel bizarre et livide, Tourmenté comme ton destin, Quels pensers dans ton âme vide Descendent? réponds, libertin. — Insatiablement avide De l'obscur et de l'incertain, Je ne geindrai pas comme Ovide Chassé du paradis latin. Cieux d..."></div> </div> </div>

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