Able Muse - exotic perfume https://www.ablemuse.com/taxonomy/term/1561/1561? en Exotic Perfume https://www.ablemuse.com/v17/poetry-translation/charles-baudelaire/exotic-perfume? <p>&nbsp;</p> <p><em>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&ldquo;Parfum Exotique&rdquo;</em></p> <p>When, with closed eyes, on a warm autumn night,<br /> I breathe in deep the fragrance of your breast,<br /> I see unrolling happy shorelines, blessed <br /> With dazzling fires of an unchanging light&mdash;</p> <p>An isle of indolence that nature supplies<br /> With unfamiliar trees and fruits of rare<br /> Savor; the men are lean and rugged there;<br /> The women shock one with their brazen eyes.</p><p><a href="https://www.ablemuse.com/v17/poetry-translation/charles-baudelaire/exotic-perfume?">read more</a></p> https://www.ablemuse.com/v17/poetry-translation/charles-baudelaire/exotic-perfume?#comments Poetry Translation charles baudelaire exotic perfume french parfum exotique poem poetry translation ryan wilson translation v17 Thu, 19 Jun 2014 18:18:46 +0000 Alex Pepple 1178 at https://www.ablemuse.com