THE FLOWERS OF EVIL

by

CHARLES BAUDELAIRE

TRANSLATED INTO

ENGLISH VERSE

BY

CYRIL SCOTT

LONDON

ELKIN MATHEWS, VIGO STREET

M CM IX

DEDICATED TO ARTHUR SYMONS

CONTENTS

Benediction
Echoes
The Sick Muse
The Venal Muse
The Evil Monk
The Enemy
Ill Luck
Interior Life
Man and the Sea
Beauty
The Ideal
The Giantess
Hymn to Beauty
Exotic Perfume
La Chevelure
Sonnet XXVIII
Posthumous Remorse
The Balcony
The Possessed One
Semper Eadem
All Entire
Sonnet XLIII
The Living Torch
The Spiritual Dawn
Evening Harmony
Overcast Sky
Invitation to a Journey
"Causerie"
Autumn Song
Sisina
To a Creolean Lady
Moesta et Errabunda
The Ghost
Autumn Song
Sadness of the Moon-Goddess
Cats
Owls
Music
The Joyous Defunct
The Broken Bell
Spleen
Obsession
Magnetic Horror
The