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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=354557" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Une nuit que j'étais près d'une affreuse Juive (On Night I Lay With A Frightful Jewess)</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Une nuit que j'étais près d'une affreuse Juive,<br>Comme au long d'un cadavre un cadavre étendu,<br>Je me pris à songer près de ce corps vendu<br>À la triste beauté dont mon désir se prive.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Je me représentai sa majesté native,<br>Son regard de vigueur et de grâces armé,<br>Ses cheveux qui lui font un casque parfumé,<br>Et dont le souvenir pour l'amour me ravive.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Car j'eusse avec ferveur baisé ton noble corps,<br>Et depuis tes pieds frais jusqu'à tes noires tresses<br>Déroulé le trésor des profondes caresses,</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Si, quelque soir, d'un pleur obtenu sans effort<br>Tu pouvais seulement, ô reine des cruelles!<br>Obscurcir la splendeur de tes froides prunelles.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">One Night I Lay with a Frightful Jewess</div><div style="margin:10px 0">One night I lay with a frightful Jewess, <br>Like a cadaver stretched out beside a cadaver, <br>And I began to muse, by that peddled body, <br>About the sad beauty my desire forgoes.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I pictured to myself her native majesty, <br>Her gaze with power and with grace endowed, <br>The hair which forms for her a perfumed casque, <br>And whose souvenir awakens love's desire.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">For I would fervently have kissed your fair body <br>And spread out the treasure of soulful caresses <br>From your cool feet up to your tresses black,</div><div style="margin:10px 0">If, some night, with a tear evoked without effort <br>You could only, queen of cruel women! <br>Soften the brilliancy of your cold eyes.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>— Translated by William Aggeler</div><div style="margin:10px 0">One Night When, near a Fearful Jewess Lying</div><div style="margin:10px 0">One night when, near a fearful Jewess lying, <br>As one corpse by another corpse, I sprawled — <br>Beside the venal body I was buying, <br>The beauty that was absent I recalled.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I pictured you in native majesty<br>With glances full of energy and grace,<br>Your hair, a perfumed casque, whose memory<br>Revives me for the amorous embrace,</div><div style="margin:10px 0">For madly I'd have kissed your noble frame,<br>And from your cool feet to your great black tresses,<br>Unleashed the treasure of profound caresses,</div><div style="margin:10px 0">If with a single tear that gently came<br>You could have quenched, O queen of all the cruel!<br>The blazing of your eyes, their icy fuel.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>— Translated by Roy Campbell</div><div style="margin:10px 0">A Bed of Shame</div><div style="margin:10px 0">One night I lay, a hideous Jewess at my side, <br>We were stretched out, corpse to like corpse, on my cold bed,<br>And all my thoughts, leaving this foul bought body, sped <br>To that sad beauty whom my own desire denied. <br>I pictured all her native majesty, her pride, <br>Her glance in all its force and grace and subtlety, <br>Her hair, a perfumed casque, and the mere memory <br>Rekindled my love's thirst, ever unsatisfied.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I would have kissed your queenly body fervently, <br>Spreading the treasures of my rapturous caresses <br>Upward from your cool feet to your warm onyx tresses, <br>If some night with a tear bestowed effortlessly <br>You could, O queen of cruel women, that I prize, <br>Obscure the glacial splendor of your scornful eyes.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>— Translated by Jacques LeClercq</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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Comme au long d'un cadavre un cadavre étendu,
Je me pris à songer près de ce corps vendu
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Je me représentai sa majesté native,
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