<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=354494" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>My Earlier Life</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">I've been home a long time among the vast porticos,<br>Which the mariner sun has tinged with a million fires,<br>Whose grandest pillars, upright, majestic and cold<br>Render them the same, this evening, as caves with basalt spires.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The swells' overwhelming accords of rich music,<br>Heaving images of heaven to the skies,<br>Mingle in a way solemn and mystic<br>With the colors of the horizon reflected by my eyes.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">It was here I was true to the voluptuous calm,<br>The milieu of azure, the waves, the splendors,<br>And the nude slaves, all impregnated with odors,</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Who refreshed my brow with waving palms<br>My only care to bring to meaning from anguish<br>The sad secret in which I languish.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>Translated by William A. Sigler</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>Submitted by Ryan McGuire</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=354494" data-title="My Earlier Life de Charles Baudelaire" data-description="I've been home a long time among the vast porticos, Which the mariner sun has tinged with a million fires, Whose grandest pillars, upright, majestic and cold Render them the same, this evening, as caves with basalt spires. The swells' overwhelmin..."></div> </div> </div>

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