<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=354440" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Invitation to the Voyage</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Imagine, ma petite,<br>Dear sister mine, how sweet<br>Were we to go and take our pleasure<br>Leisurely, you and I—<br>To lie, to love, to die<br>Off in that land made to your measure!<br>A land whose suns' moist rays,<br>Through the skies' misty haze,<br>Hold quite the same dark charms for me<br>As do your scheming eyes<br>When they, in their like wise,<br>Shine through your tears, perfidiously.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">There all is order, naught amiss:<br>Comfort and beauty, calm and bliss.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Treasure galore—ornate,<br>Time-glossed—would decorate<br>Our chamber, where the rarest blooms<br>Would blend their lavish scent,<br>Heady and opulent,<br>With wisps of amber-like perfumes;<br>Where all the Orient's<br>Splendid, rich ornaments—<br>Deep mirrors, ceilings fine—would each,<br>In confidential tone,<br>Speak to the soul alone<br>In its own sweet and secret speech.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">There all is order, naught amiss:<br>Comfort and beauty, calm and bliss.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">See how the ships, asleep—<br>They who would ply the deep!—<br>Line the canals: to satisfy<br>Your merest whim they come<br>From far-flung heathendom<br>And skim the seven seas. —On high,<br>The sunset's rays enfold<br>In hyacinth and gold,<br>Field and canal; and, with the night,<br>As shadows gently fall,<br>Behold! Life sleeps, and all<br>Lies bathed in warmth and evening light.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">There all is order, naught amiss:<br>Comfort and beauty, calm and bliss.</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=354440" data-title="Invitation to the Voyage de Charles Baudelaire" data-description="Imagine, ma petite, Dear sister mine, how sweet Were we to go and take our pleasure Leisurely, you and I— To lie, to love, to die Off in that land made to your measure! A land whose suns' moist rays, Through the skies' misty haze, Hold quite the..."></div> </div> </div>

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