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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=354450" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>La Géante (The Giantess)</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Du temps que la Nature en sa verve puissante<br>Concevait chaque jour des enfants monstrueux,<br>J'eusse aimé vivre auprès d'une jeune géante,<br>Comme aux pieds d'une reine un chat voluptueux.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">J'eusse aimé voir son corps fleurir avec son âme<br>Et grandir librement dans ses terribles jeux;<br>Deviner si son coeur couve une sombre flamme<br>Aux humides brouillards qui nagent dans ses yeux;</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Parcourir à loisir ses magnifiques formes;<br>Ramper sur le versant de ses genoux énormes,<br>Et parfois en été, quand les soleils malsains,</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Lasse, la font s'étendre à travers la campagne,<br>Dormir nonchalamment à l'ombre de ses seins,<br>Comme un hameau paisible au pied d'une montagne.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The Giantess</div><div style="margin:10px 0">At the time when Nature with a lusty spirit <br>Was conceiving monstrous children each day, <br>I should have liked to live near a young giantess, <br>Like a voluptuous cat at the feet of a queen.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I should have liked to see her soul and body thrive <br>And grow without restraint in her terrible games; <br>To divine by the mist swimming within her eyes <br>If her heart harbored a smoldering flame;</div><div style="margin:10px 0">To explore leisurely her magnificent form;<br>To crawl upon the slopes of her enormous knees,<br>And sometimes in summer, when the unhealthy sun</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Makes her stretch out, weary, across the countryside, <br>To sleep nonchalantly in the shade of her breasts, <br>Like a peaceful hamlet below a mountainside.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>— Translated by William Aggeler</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The Giantess </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Of old when Nature, in her verve defiant, <br>Conceived each day some birth of monstrous mien,<br>I would have lived near some young female giant <br>Like a voluptuous cat beside a queen;</div><div style="margin:10px 0">To see her body flowering with her soul <br>Freely develop in her mighty games, <br>And in the mists that through her gaze would roll <br>Guess that her heart was hatching sombre flames;</div><div style="margin:10px 0">To roam her mighty contours as I please, <br>Ramp on the cliff of her tremendous knees, <br>And in the solstice, when the suns that kill</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Make her stretch out across the land and rest, <br>To sleep beneath the shadow of her breast <br>Like a hushed village underneath a hill.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>— Translated by Roy Campbell</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The Giantess</div><div style="margin:10px 0">In times of old when Nature in her glad excess <br>Brought forth such living marvels as no more are seen, <br>I should have loved to dwell with a young giantess, <br>Like a voluptuous cat about the feet of a queen;</div><div style="margin:10px 0">To run and laugh beside her in her terrible games, <br>And see her grow each day to a more fearful size, <br>And see the flowering of her soul, and the first flames <br>Of passionate longing in the misty depths of her eyes;</div><div style="margin:10px 0">To scale the slopes of her huge knees, explore at will<br>The hollows and the heights of her — and when, oppressed<br>By the long afternoons of summer, cloudless and still,</div><div style="margin:10px 0">She would stretch out across the countryside to rest, <br>I should have loved to sleep in the shadow of her breast, <br>Quietly as a village nestling under a hill.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>— Translated by George Dillon</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The Giantess</div><div style="margin:10px 0">In times when Nature, lusty to excess, <br>Bred monstrous children, would that I had been <br>Living beside a youthful giantess, <br>Like a voluptuous cat beside a queen; <br>To see her soul and body gain full size <br>Blossoming freely in her fearsome games, <br>And by the damp mists swimming in her eyes <br>To watch her heart nursing what somber flames!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">To roam her mighty form at my sweet ease,<br>To crawl along the slopes of her vast knees,<br>And, summers, when the sun's unhealthy heats<br>Made her sprawl, tired, across the countryside<br>To sleep at leisure, shaded by her teats,<br>Like a calm hamlet by the mountainside.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>— Translated by Jacques LeClercq</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Giantess</div><div style="margin:10px 0">When Nature once in lustful hot undress<br>Conceived gargantuan offspring, then would I<br>Have loved to live near a young giantess,<br>Like a voluptuous cat at a queen's feet.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">To see her body flower with her desire<br>And freely spread out in its dreadful play,<br>Guess if her heart concealed some heavy fire<br>Whose humid smokes would swim upon her eye.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">To feel at leisure her stupendous shapes,<br>Crawl on the cliffs of her enormous knees,<br>And, when in summer the unhealthy suns</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Have stretched her out across the plains, fatigued, <br>Sleep in the shadows of her breasts at ease<br>Like a small hamlet at a mountain's base.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>— Translated by Karl Shapiro</div><div style="margin:10px 0">La Géante</div><div style="margin:10px 0">From the time when Nature in her furious fancy<br>Conceived each day monstrosities obscene,<br>I had loved to live near a young Giantess of Necromancy,<br>Like a voluptuous cat before the knees of a Queen.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I had loved to see her body mix with her Soul's shame<br>And greaten in these terrible games of Vice,<br>And to divine if in her heart brooded a somber flame,<br>Before the moist sea-mists which swarm in her great eyes;</div><div style="margin:10px 0">To wander over her huge forms — nature deforms us —<br>And to crawl over the slopes of her knees enormous,<br>And in summer when the unwholesome suns from the West's</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Winds, weary, made her slumber hard by a fountain,<br>To sleep listlessly in the shadow of her superb breasts,<br>Like an hamlet that slumbers at the foot of a mountain.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>— Translated by Arthur Symons</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The Giantess</div><div style="margin:10px 0">In those times when Nature in powerful zest <br>Conceived each day monstrous children, <br>I would have loved to live near a young giantess, <br>A voluptuous cat at the feet of a queen.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I would have loved to see her body flower with her soul, <br>To grow up freely in her prodigious play; <br>To find if her heart bred some dark flame <br>Amongst the humid mists swimming in her eyes;</div><div style="margin:10px 0">To run leisurely over her marvelous lines;<br>To creep along the slopes of her enormous knees,<br>And sometimes in summer, when impure suns</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Made her wearily stretch out across the countryside, <br>To sleep carelessly in the shadow of her breasts, <br>Like a peaceful village at the foot of a mountain.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>--Translated by Geoffrey Wagner</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>
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