Versos English Charles Baudelaire Lament Of An Icarus

English poem

Lament Of An Icarus

by (1821–1867)

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Lovers of whores don't care, happy, calm and replete: But my arms are incomplete, grasping the empty air. Thanks to stars, incomparable ones, that blaze in the depths of the skies, all my destroyed eyes see, are the memories of suns. I look, in vain, for beginning and end of the heavens' slow revolve: Under an unknown eye of fire, I ascend feeling my wings dissolve. And, scorched by desire for the beautiful, I will not know the bliss, of giving my name to that abyss, that knows my tomb and funeral.