BAUDELAIRE:

HIS PROSE AND POETRY

Edited by T. R. SMITH

BONI AND LIVERIGHT

PUBLISHERS NEW YORK

1919

CONTENTS

AVE ATQUE VALE. A Poem by A. C. Swinburne 1

PREFACE 9

CHARLES BAUDELAIRE. A study by F. P. Sturm 11


POEMS IN PROSE. Translated by Arthur Symons

The Favours of the Moon 39
Which is True? 40
"L'Invitation au Voyage" 41
The Eyes of the Poor 43
Windows 45
Crowds 46
The Cake 47
Evening Twilight 49
"Anywhere Out of the World" 51
A Heroic Death 53
Be Drunken 57
Epilogue 58

POEMS IN PROSE. Translated by Joseph T. Shipley

Dedication (To Arsène Houssaye) 61
A Jester 63
The Dog and the Vial 63
The Wild Woman and the Coquette 64
The Old Mountebank 66
The Clock 68
A Hemisphere in a Tress 69
The Plaything of the Poor 70
The Gifts of the Fairies 72
Solitude 74
Projects 75
The Lovely Dorothea 77
The Counterfeit 79
The Generous Player 80
The Rope (To Edward Manet) 84
Callings 88
A Thoroughbred 92
The Mirror 93
The Harbor