CHARLES BAUDELAIRE

WITH AN INTRODUCTORY PREFACE BY

JAMES HUNEKER

NEW YORK

BRENTANO'S

PUBLISHERS

1919

CONTENTS CHARLES BAUDELAIRE by James Huneker THE FLOWERS OF EVIL The Dance of Death The Beacons The Sadness of the Moon Exotic Perfume Beauty The Balcony The Sick Muse The Venal Muse The Evil Monk The Temptation The Irreparable A Former Life Don Juan in Hades The Living Flame Correspondences The Flask Reversibility The Eyes of Beauty Sonnet of Autumn The Remorse of the Dead The Ghost To a Madonna The Sky Spleen The Owls Bien Loin D'Ici Music Contemplation To a Brown Beggar-maid The Swan The Seven Old Men The Little Old Women A Madrigal of Sorrow The Ideal Mist and Rain Sunset The Corpse An Allegory The Accursed La Beatrice The Soul of Wine The Wine of Lovers The Death of Lovers The Death of The Poor The Benediction Gypsies Travelling Franciscæ Meæ Laudes Robed in a Silken Robe A Landscape The Voyage LITTLE POEMS IN PROSE The Stranger Every Man His Chimæra Venus and the Fool Intoxication The Gifts of the Moon The Invitation to the Voyage What Is Truth? Already! The Double Chamber At One O'clock in the Morning The Confiteor of the Artist The Thyrsus The Marksman THe Shooting-range and the Cemetery The Desire to Paint The Glass-Vendor The Widows The Temptations; or, Eros, Plutus, and Glory