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by Charles Baudelaire (1821 - 1867)

Nous aurons des lits pleins d'odeurs...
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Language: French (Français) 
Our translations:  ENG ITA SPA
Nous aurons des lits pleins d'odeurs légères,
Des divans profonds comme des tombeaux,
Et d'étranges fleurs sur des étagères,
Écloses pour nous sous des cieux plus beaux.

Usant à l'envi leurs chaleurs dernières,
Nos deux cœurs seront deux vastes flambeaux,
Qui réfléchiront leurs doubles lumières
Dans nos deux esprits, ces miroirs jumeaux.

Un soir plein de rose et de bleu mystique,
Nous échangerons un éclair unique,
Comme un long sanglot, tout chargé d'adieux ;

Et bientôt un Ange, entr'ouvrant les portes,
Viendra ranimer, fidèle et joyeux,
Les miroirs ternis et les flammes mortes.

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Confirmed with Charles Baudelaire, Les Fleurs du mal, Paris: Poulet-Malassis et de Broise, 1857, in La Mort, pages 243-244. Note: this was number 98 in the first edition of Les Fleurs du mal but number 121 or 146 in subsequent editions.


Text Authorship:

  • by Charles Baudelaire (1821 - 1867), "La mort des amants", written 1851, appears in Les Fleurs du mal, in 6. La Mort, no. 121, Paris, Poulet-Malassis et de Broise, first published 1857 [author's text checked 2 times against a primary source]

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