And the lamp having at last resigned itself to death. There was nothing now but firelight in the room, And every time a flame uttered a gasp for breath It flushed her amber skin with the blood of its bloom.


The Flowers of Evil: A Selection (ed. New Directions Publishing, 1955) - ISBN: 9780811200066

Charles Baudelaire Quotes

And the lamp having at last resigned itself to death. There was nothing now but firelight in the room, And every time a flame uttered a gasp for...

And the lamp having at last resigned itself to death. There was nothing now but firelight in the room, And every time a flame uttered a gasp for...

And the lamp having at last resigned itself to death. There was nothing now but firelight in the room, And every time a flame uttered a gasp for...

And the lamp having at last resigned itself to death. There was nothing now but firelight in the room, And every time a flame uttered a gasp for...