Poems in Prose

Charles Baudelaire

TRANSLATED INTO ENGLISH VERSE BY CYRIL SCOTT LONDON ELKIN MATHEWS, VIGO STREET M CM IX DEDICATED TO ARTHUR SYMONS CONTENTS Benediction Echoes The Sick Muse The Venal Mus...

Charles Baudelaire

BAUDELAIRE: HIS PROSE AND POETRY Edited by T. R. SMITH BONI AND LIVERIGHT PUBLISHERS NEW YORK 1919 CONTENTS AVE ATQUE VALE.

Charles Baudelaire

BY GUY THORNE APPENDIX INDEX ILLUSTRATIONS CHARLES BAUDELAIRE (_Frontispiece_) THÉOPHILE GAUTIER L'AUTEUR DES FLEURS DU MAL (A bitter caricature of Baudelai...

Charles Baudelaire

I The Favours of the Moon The Moon, who is caprice itself, looked in through the window when you lay asleep in your cradle, and said inwardly: "This is a child after my own soul."

Jonathan Swift

1729 It is a melancholy object to those, who walk through this great town, or travel in the country, when they see the streets, the roads and cabbin-doors crowded with beggars of the female sex,...

Charlotte Perkins Gilman

It is very seldom that mere ordinary people like John and myself secure ancestral halls for the summer.

Plato

Translated by Benjamin Jowett INTRODUCTION.

Ambrose Bierce

THE MILLENNIUM FULCRUM EDITION, 1988 A man stood upon a railroad bridge in northern Alabama, looking down into the swift water twenty feet below.