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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=354476" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Le Vampire (The Vampire)</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Toi qui, comme un coup de couteau,<br>Dans mon coeur plaintif es entrée;<br>Toi qui, forte comme un troupeau<br>De démons, vins, folle et parée,</div><div style="margin:10px 0">De mon esprit humilié<br>Faire ton lit et ton domaine;<br>— Infâme à qui je suis lié<br>Comme le forçat à la chaîne,</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Comme au jeu le joueur têtu,<br>Comme à la bouteille l'ivrogne,<br>Comme aux vermines la charogne<br>— Maudite, maudite sois-tu!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">J'ai prié le glaive rapide<br>De conquérir ma liberté,<br>Et j'ai dit au poison perfide<br>De secourir ma lâcheté.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Hélas! le poison et le glaive<br>M'ont pris en dédain et m'ont dit:<br>«Tu n'es pas digne qu'on t'enlève<br>À ton esclavage maudit,</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Imbécile! — de son empire<br>Si nos efforts te délivraient,<br>Tes baisers ressusciteraient<br>Le cadavre de ton vampire!»</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The Vampire</div><div style="margin:10px 0">You who, like the stab of a knife,<br>Entered my plaintive heart;<br>You who, strong as a herd<br>Of demons, came, ardent and adorned,</div><div style="margin:10px 0">To make your bed and your domain<br>Of my humiliated mind<br>— Infamous bitch to whom I'm bound<br>Like the convict to his chain,</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Like the stubborn gambler to the game, <br>Like the drunkard to his wine, <br>Like the maggots to the corpse,<br>— Accurst, accurst be you!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I begged the swift poniard <br>To gain for me my liberty, <br>I asked perfidious poison <br>To give aid to my cowardice.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Alas! both poison and the knife<br>Contemptuously said to me:<br>'You do not deserve to be freed<br>From your accursed slavery,</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Fool! — if from her domination<br>Our efforts could deliver you,<br>Your kisses would resuscitate<br>The cadaver of your vampire!'</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>— Translated by William Aggeler</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The Vampire </div><div style="margin:10px 0">You, who like a dagger ploughed <br>Into my heart with deadly thrill: <br>You who, stronger than a crowd <br>Of demons, mad, and dressed to kill,</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Of my dejected soul have made<br>Your bed, your lodging, and domain:<br>To whom I'm linked (Unseemly jade!)<br>As is a convict to his chain,</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Or as the gamester to his dice, <br>Or as the drunkard to his dram, <br>Or as the carrion to its lice — <br>I curse you. Would my curse could damn!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I have besought the sudden blade <br>To win for me my freedom back. <br>Perfidious poison I have prayed <br>To help my cowardice. Alack!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Both poison and the sword disdained<br>My cowardice, and seemed to say<br>'You are not fit to be unchained<br>From your damned servitude. Away,</div><div style="margin:10px 0">You imbecile! since if from her empire <br>We were to liberate the slave, <br>You'd raise the carrion of your vampire, <br>By your own kisses, from the grave.'</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>— Translated by Roy Campbell</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The Vampire</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>Thou who abruptly as a knife<br>Didst come into my heart; thou who,<br>A demon horde into my life,<br>Didst enter, wildly dancing, through</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The doorways of my sense unlatched<br>To make my spirit thy domain — <br>Harlot to whom I am attached<br>As convicts to the ball and chain,</div><div style="margin:10px 0">As gamblers to the wheel's bright spell, <br>As drunkards to their raging thirst, <br>As corpses to their worms — accurst <br>Be thou! Oh, be thou damned to hell!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I have entreated the swift sword <br>To strike, that I at once be freed; <br>The poisoned phial I have implored <br>To plot with me a ruthless deed.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Alas! the phial and the blade <br>Do cry aloud and laugh at me: <br>'Thou art not worthy of our aid; <br>Thou art not worthy to be free.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'Though one of us should be the tool<br>To save thee from thy wretched fate,<br>Thy kisses would resuscitate<br>The body of thy vampire, fool!'</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>— Translated by George Dillon</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The Vampire</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Thou, sharper than a dagger thrust<br>Sinking into my plaintive heart,<br>Thou, frenzied and arrayed in lust,<br>Strong as a demon host whose art</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Possessed my humbled soul at last,<br>Made it thy bed and thy domain,<br>Strumpet, to whom I am bound fast<br>As is the convict to his chain,</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The stubborn gambler to his dice, <br>The rabid drunkard to his bowl, <br>The carcass to its vermin lice — <br>O thrice-accursèd be thy soul!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I called on the swift sword to smite <br>One blow to free my life of this, <br>I begged perfidious aconite <br>For succor in my cowardice.<br>But sword and poison in my need<br>Heaped scorn upon my craven mood,<br>Saying: 'Unworthy to be freed,<br>From thine accursed servitude,</div><div style="margin:10px 0">O fool, if through our efforts, Fate <br>Absolved thee from thy sorry plight, <br>Thy kisses would resuscitate <br>Thy vampire's corpse for thy delight.'</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>— Translated by Jacques LeClercq</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The Vampire </div><div style="margin:10px 0">You who, keen as a carving blade,<br>Into my plaintive heart has plunged,<br>You who, strong as a wild array<br>Of crazed and costumed cacodaemons,</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Storming into my helpless soul<br>To make your bed and your domain;<br>— Tainted jade to whom I'm joined<br>Like a convict to his chain,</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Like a gambler to his game,<br>Like a drunkard to his bottle,<br>Like maggot-worms to their cadaver,<br>Damn you, oh damn you I say!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I pleaded with the speedy sword<br>To win me back my liberty;<br>And finally, a desperate coward,<br>I turned to poison's perfidy.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Alas, but poison and the sword<br>Had only scorn to offer me:<br>'You're not worthy to be free<br>Of your wretched slavery,</div><div style="margin:10px 0">You imbecile! — For if our means<br>Should release you from her reign,<br>You with your kisses would only breathe<br>New life into the vampire slain!'</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>— Translated by Atti Viragh</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The Vampire</div><div style="margin:10px 0">You that, like a dagger’s thrust,<br>Have entered my complaining heart,<br>You that, stronger than a host<br>Of demons, came, wild yet prepared;</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Within my mind’s humility<br>You made your bed and your domain;<br>- Infamous one who’s bound to me<br>Like any felon by his chain,</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Like a gambler by his games,<br>Like the bottle and the sot,<br>Like the worms in one’s remains,<br>- Damn you! Damnation be your lot!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I’ve begged the merciful, swift sword<br>To overcome my liberty -<br>To poison I have said the word:<br>Save me from poltroonery.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Alas the sword! Alas the poison!<br>Contemptuous, they spoke to m:<br>'You never can deserve remission<br>Of your accursed slavery,</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'Imbecile! - If our deadly empire<br>Freed you from your present fate,<br>Your kiss would soon resuscitate<br>The cold cadaver of your vampire!'</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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Dans mon coeur plaintif es entrée;
Toi qui, forte comme un troupeau
De démons, vins, folle et parée,

De mon esprit humilié
Faire ton lit et ton domaine;
— Infâme à qui je suis lié
Comme le forçat à la..."></div>
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