Spleen: Pluviôse, irritated with the whole city, Poem by Charles Baudelaire

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

Pluviôse, irritated with the whole city,
From his urn pours in great floods a dark cold
On the pale inhabitants of the neighboring cemetery
And mortality on the foggy suburbs.

My cat on the tiles seeking a litter
Restlessly shakes his thin and mangy body;
The soul of an old poet wanders in the gutter
With the sad voice of a shivering ghost.

The clock hums, and the smoky log
Accompanies in falsetto the sniffling pendulum,
While in a game full of filthy perfumes,

Fatal inheritance of an old dropsical woman,
The handsome jack of hearts and the queen of spades
Grimly converse about their deceased loves.

Charles Baudelaire

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