Book 2000

Selected Poems from Les Fleurs du mal

Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
Language: English
Published: 2000

Translations into English
French poetry

A bilingual edition of selected poems of a 19th century French master. In "The cat," one reads in this English version: "Come, cat of mine, perch on my loving breast; / Come, beauty, lie in gentle guise: / Pull in your claws, and let me plunge, possessed, / Into your agate-metal eyes."