<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=354538" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Sick Muse</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">My impoverished muse, alas! What have you for me this morning? <br>Your empty eyes are stocked with nocturnal visions, <br>In your cheek's cold and taciturn reflection, <br>I see insanity and horror forming. <br>The green succubus and the red urchin, <br>Have they poured you fear and love from their urns? <br>The nightmare of a mutinous fist that despotically turns, <br>Does it drown you at the bottom of a loch beyond searching? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">I wish that your breast exhaled the scent of sanity, <br>That your womb of thought was not a tomb more frequently <br>And that your Christian blood flowed around a buoy that was rhythmical, </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Like the numberless sounds of antique syllables, <br>Where reigns in turn the father of songs, <br>Phoebus, and the great Pan, the harvest sovereign.</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=354538" data-title="The Sick Muse de Charles Baudelaire" data-description="My impoverished muse, alas! What have you for me this morning? Your empty eyes are stocked with nocturnal visions, In your cheek's cold and taciturn reflection, I see insanity and horror forming. The green succubus and the red urchin, Have th..."></div> </div> </div>

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