Sisina

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

Imagine Diana in gallant array,
Ranging the forests or beating the thickets,
Hair and bosom to the wind, drunk with uproar,
Superb and defying the best of horsemen!

Have you seen Théroigne, lover of carnage,
Urging to the assault a people without shoes,
Cheek and eye afire, playing her part,
And climbing, saber in fist, the royal stairways?

Such is Sisina! But the gentle warrior
Has a soul as charitable as murderous;
Her courage, crazed with powder and with drums,

Before suppliants knows how to lay down its arms,
And her heart, ravaged by the flame, still keeps,
For whoever proves worthy, a reservoir of tears.

Charles Baudelaire

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