I sit in the sky like a sphinx misunderstood; My heart of snow is wed to the whiteness of swans; I hate the movement tha — Charles Baudelaire, Selected Poems from Les Fleurs du mal: A Bilingual Edition
I sit in the sky like a sphinx misunderstood; My heart of snow is wed to the whiteness of swans; I hate the movement tha — Charles Baudelaire, Selected Poems from Les Fleurs du mal: A Bilingual Edition
I sit in the sky like a sphinx misunderstood; My heart of snow is wed to the whiteness of swans; I hate the movement tha — Charles Baudelaire, Selected Poems from Les Fleurs du mal: A Bilingual Edition
I sit in the sky like a sphinx misunderstood; My heart of snow is wed to the whiteness of swans; I hate the movement tha — Charles Baudelaire, Selected Poems from Les Fleurs du mal: A Bilingual Edition
I sit in the sky like a sphinx misunderstood; My heart of snow is wed to the whiteness of swans; I hate the movement tha — Charles Baudelaire, Selected Poems from Les Fleurs du mal: A Bilingual Edition
I sit in the sky like a sphinx misunderstood; My heart of snow is wed to the whiteness of swans; I hate the movement tha — Charles Baudelaire, Selected Poems from Les Fleurs du mal: A Bilingual Edition
I sit in the sky like a sphinx misunderstood; My heart of snow is wed to the whiteness of swans; I hate the movement tha — Charles Baudelaire, Selected Poems from Les Fleurs du mal: A Bilingual Edition
I sit in the sky like a sphinx misunderstood; My heart of snow is wed to the whiteness of swans; I hate the movement tha — Charles Baudelaire, Selected Poems from Les Fleurs du mal: A Bilingual Edition
I sit in the sky like a sphinx misunderstood; My heart of snow is wed to the whiteness of swans; I hate the movement tha — Charles Baudelaire, Selected Poems from Les Fleurs du mal: A Bilingual Edition
I sit in the sky like a sphinx misunderstood; My heart of snow is wed to the whiteness of swans; I hate the movement tha — Charles Baudelaire, Selected Poems from Les Fleurs du mal: A Bilingual Edition
I sit in the sky like a sphinx misunderstood; My heart of snow is wed to the whiteness of swans; I hate the movement tha — Charles Baudelaire, Selected Poems from Les Fleurs du mal: A Bilingual Edition
I sit in the sky like a sphinx misunderstood; My heart of snow is wed to the whiteness of swans; I hate the movement tha — Charles Baudelaire, Selected Poems from Les Fleurs du mal: A Bilingual Edition
I sit in the sky like a sphinx misunderstood; My heart of snow is wed to the whiteness of swans; I hate the movement tha — Charles Baudelaire, Selected Poems from Les Fleurs du mal: A Bilingual Edition
I sit in the sky like a sphinx misunderstood; My heart of snow is wed to the whiteness of swans; I hate the movement tha — Charles Baudelaire, Selected Poems from Les Fleurs du mal: A Bilingual Edition
I sit in the sky like a sphinx misunderstood; My heart of snow is wed to the whiteness of swans; I hate the movement tha — Charles Baudelaire, Selected Poems from Les Fleurs du mal: A Bilingual Edition
I sit in the sky like a sphinx misunderstood; My heart of snow is wed to the whiteness of swans; I hate the movement tha — Charles Baudelaire, Selected Poems from Les Fleurs du mal: A Bilingual Edition
I sit in the sky like a sphinx misunderstood; My heart of snow is wed to the whiteness of swans; I hate the movement tha — Charles Baudelaire, Selected Poems from Les Fleurs du mal: A Bilingual Edition
I sit in the sky like a sphinx misunderstood; My heart of snow is wed to the whiteness of swans; I hate the movement tha — Charles Baudelaire, Selected Poems from Les Fleurs du mal: A Bilingual Edition
I sit in the sky like a sphinx misunderstood; My heart of snow is wed to the whiteness of swans; I hate the movement tha — Charles Baudelaire, Selected Poems from Les Fleurs du mal: A Bilingual Edition
I sit in the sky like a sphinx misunderstood; My heart of snow is wed to the whiteness of swans; I hate the movement tha — Charles Baudelaire, Selected Poems from Les Fleurs du mal: A Bilingual Edition
I sit in the sky like a sphinx misunderstood; My heart of snow is wed to the whiteness of swans; I hate the movement tha — Charles Baudelaire, Selected Poems from Les Fleurs du mal: A Bilingual Edition
I sit in the sky like a sphinx misunderstood; My heart of snow is wed to the whiteness of swans; I hate the movement tha — Charles Baudelaire, Selected Poems from Les Fleurs du mal: A Bilingual Edition
I sit in the sky like a sphinx misunderstood; My heart of snow is wed to the whiteness of swans; I hate the movement tha — Charles Baudelaire, Selected Poems from Les Fleurs du mal: A Bilingual Edition
I sit in the sky like a sphinx misunderstood; My heart of snow is wed to the whiteness of swans; I hate the movement tha — Charles Baudelaire, Selected Poems from Les Fleurs du mal: A Bilingual Edition
I sit in the sky like a sphinx misunderstood; My heart of snow is wed to the whiteness of swans; I hate the movement tha — Charles Baudelaire, Selected Poems from Les Fleurs du mal: A Bilingual Edition
I sit in the sky like a sphinx misunderstood; My heart of snow is wed to the whiteness of swans; I hate the movement tha — Charles Baudelaire, Selected Poems from Les Fleurs du mal: A Bilingual Edition
I sit in the sky like a sphinx misunderstood; My heart of snow is wed to the whiteness of swans; I hate the movement tha — Charles Baudelaire, Selected Poems from Les Fleurs du mal: A Bilingual Edition
I sit in the sky like a sphinx misunderstood; My heart of snow is wed to the whiteness of swans; I hate the movement tha — Charles Baudelaire, Selected Poems from Les Fleurs du mal: A Bilingual Edition
I sit in the sky like a sphinx misunderstood; My heart of snow is wed to the whiteness of swans; I hate the movement tha — Charles Baudelaire, Selected Poems from Les Fleurs du mal: A Bilingual Edition
I sit in the sky like a sphinx misunderstood; My heart of snow is wed to the whiteness of swans; I hate the movement tha — Charles Baudelaire, Selected Poems from Les Fleurs du mal: A Bilingual Edition
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I sit in the sky like a sphinx misunderstood; My heart of snow is wed to the whiteness of swans; I hate the movement that displaces the rigid lines, With lips untaught neither tears nor laughter do I know.

— Charles Baudelaire, Selected Poems from Les Fleurs du mal: A Bilingual Edition
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