With Her Undulating and Pearly Garments, Poem by Charles Baudelaire

Poem by Charles Baudelaire Collection The Flowers of EvilThemes LovePeriod 19th century

With her undulating and pearly garments,
Even when she walks one would think she dances,
Like those long serpents that sacred jugglers
At the end of their staffs wave in cadence.

Like the dreary sand and the azure of deserts,
Both insensible to human suffering,
Like the long networks of the swell of seas,
She unfolds with indifference.

Her polished eyes are made of charming minerals,
And in this strange and symbolic nature
Where the inviolate angel mingles with the ancient sphinx,

Where all is but gold, steel, light, and diamonds,
Resplendent forever, like a useless star,
The cold majesty of the sterile woman.

Charles Baudelaire

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