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 PREFACE CHARLES BAUDELAIRE. A study by F. P. Sturm POEMS IN PROSE. Translated by Arthur Symons The Favours of the Moon Which is True? "L'Invitation au Voyage" The Eyes of the Poor Windows Crowds The Cake Evening Twilight "Anywhere Out of the World" A Heroic Death Be Drunken Epilogue POEMS IN PROSE. Translated by Joseph T. Shipley Dedication (To Arsène Houssaye) A Jester The Dog and the Vial The Wild Woman and the Coquette The Old Mountebank The Clock A Hemisphere in a Tress The Plaything of the Poor The Gifts of the Fairies Solitude Projects The Lovely Dorothea The Counterfeit The Generous Player The Rope (To Edward Manet) Callings A Thoroughbred The Mirror The Harbor Mistresses' Portraits Soup and the Clouds The Loss of a Halo Mademoiselle Bistoury Let us Flay the Poor Good Dogs (To Mr. Joseph Stevens) LITTLE POEMS IN PROSE. Translated by F. P. Sturm Every Man His Chimæra Venus and the Fool Already! The Double Chamber At One o'Clock in the Morning The Confiteor of the Artist The Thyrsus (To Franz Liszt) The Marksman The Shooting-range and the Cemetery The Desire to Paint The Glass-vendor The Widows The Temptations; or, Eros, Plutos, and Glory THE FLOWERS OF EVIL. Translated by F. P. Sturm The Dance of Death The Beacons The Sadness of the Moon The Balcony The Sick Muse The Venal Muse The Evil Monk The Temptation The Irreparable A Former Life Don Juan in Hades The Living Flame Correspondences The Flask Reversibility The Eyes of Beauty Sonnet of Autumn The Remorse of the Dead The Ghost To a Madonna The Sky Spleen The Owls Bien Loin d'Ici Contemplation To a Brown Beggar-maid The Swan The Seven Old Men The Little Old Women A Madrigal of Sorrow Mist and Rain Sunset The Corpse An Allegory The Accursed La Beatrice The Soul of Wine The Wine of Lovers The Death of Lovers The Death of the Poor Gypsies Travelling Franciscæ Meæ Laudes A Landscape The Voyage THE FLOWERS OF EVIL. Translated by W. J. Robertson Benediction Ill Luck Beauty Ideal Love Hymn to Beauty Exotic Fragrance Sonnet XVIII Music The Spiritual Dawn The Flawed Bell THREE POEMS FROM BAUDELAIRE. Translated by Richard Herne Shepherd A Carcass Weeping and Wandering Lesbos INTIMATE PAPERS FROM THE UNPUBLISHED WORKS OF BAUDELAIRE. Translated by Joseph T. Shipley TRANSLATOR'S NOTE Rockets My Heart Laid Bare FLOWERS OF EVIL AVE ATQUE VALE