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by Charles Baudelaire (1821 - 1867)

La musique
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Language: French (Français) 
Our translations:  ITA
La musique parfois me prend comme une mer !
	Vers ma pâle étoile,
Sous un plafond de brume ou dans un pur éther,
	Je mets à la voile ;

La poitrine en avant et gonflant mes poumons
	De toile pesante,
Je monte et je descends sur le dos des grands monts
	D'eau retentissante ;

Je sens vibrer en moi toutes les passions
	D'un vaisseau qui souffre
Le bon vent, la tempête et ses convulsions

	Sur l'immense gouffre
Me bercent, et parfois le calme, -- grand miroir
	De mon désespoir !

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Confirmed with Charles Baudelaire, Les Fleurs du mal, Paris: Poulet-Malassis et de Broise, 1857, in Spleen et Idéal, pages 174-175. Also confirmed with Charles Baudelaire, Les Fleurs du mal, Paris: Poulet-Malassis et de Broise, 1861, in Spleen et Idéal, pages 158-159. Also confirmed with Charles Baudelaire, Œuvres complètes de Charles Baudelaire, vol. I : Les Fleurs du mal, Paris: Michel Lévy frères, 1868, in Spleen et Idéal, page 192. Punctuation follows 1857 edition. Note: this was number 76 in the 1857 edition of Les Fleurs du mal but number 69 or 71 in subsequent editions.


Text Authorship:

  • by Charles Baudelaire (1821 - 1867), "La Musique", written 1857, appears in Les Fleurs du mal, in 1. Spleen et Idéal, no. 69, Paris, Poulet-Malassis et de Broise, first published 1857 [author's text checked 4 times against a primary source]

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