August 25, 2010
mustangmoon:fuckyeahvictorians:thefindesiecle: The Vampire by Charles Baudelaire (from Les Fleurs du mal) You, who like a dagger ploughed Into my heart with deadly thrill: You who, stronger than a crowd Of demons, mad, and dressed to kill, Of my dejected soul have madeYour bed, your lodging, and domain:To whom I’m linked (Unseemly jade!)As is a convict to his chain, Or as the gamester to his dice, Or as the drunkard to his dram, Or as the carrion to its lice — I curse you. Would my curse could damn! I have besought the sudden blade To win for me my freedom back. Perfidious poison I have prayed To help my cowardice. Alack! Both poison and the sword disdainedMy cowardice, and seemed to say“You are not fit to be unchainedFrom your damned servitude. Away, You imbecile! since if from her empire We were to liberate the slave, You’d raise the carrion of your vampire, By your own kisses, from the grave.” — Roy Campbell, Poems of Baudelaire (New York: Pantheon Books, 1952) (Image: Albert-Joseph Pénot, Bat-woman, c.1890).

mustangmoon:fuckyeahvictorians:thefindesiecle:

The Vampire

by Charles Baudelaire (from Les Fleurs du mal)

You, who like a dagger ploughed
Into my heart with deadly thrill:
You who, stronger than a crowd
Of demons, mad, and dressed to kill,

Of my dejected soul have made
Your bed, your lodging, and domain:
To whom I’m linked (Unseemly jade!)
As is a convict to his chain,

Or as the gamester to his dice,
Or as the drunkard to his dram,
Or as the carrion to its lice —
I curse you. Would my curse could damn!

I have besought the sudden blade
To win for me my freedom back.
Perfidious poison I have prayed
To help my cowardice. Alack!

Both poison and the sword disdained
My cowardice, and seemed to say
“You are not fit to be unchained
From your damned servitude. Away,

You imbecile! since if from her empire
We were to liberate the slave,
You’d raise the carrion of your vampire,
By your own kisses, from the grave.”

— Roy Campbell, Poems of Baudelaire (New York: Pantheon Books, 1952)

(Image: Albert-Joseph Pénot, Bat-woman, c.1890).

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