Meditation

Meditation by Charles Baudelaire

Meditation
Calm down, my Sorrow, we must move with care. You called for evening; it descends, it’s here. The town is coffined in its atmosphere, bringing relief to some, to others care. Now while the common multitude strips bare, feels pleasure’s cat o’ nine tails on its back, and fights off anguish at the great bazaar, give me your hand, my Sorrow. Let’s stand back; back from these people! Look, the dead years dressed in old clothes crowd the balconies of the sky. Regret emerges smiling from the sea, the sick sun slumbers underneath an arch, and like a shroud strung out from east to west, listen, my Dearest, hear the sweet night march!
Poet: Charles Baudelaire
Translator: Robert Lowell
Source: @RoundhousePoetryCircle
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The sick sun slumbers underneath an arch

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