LOLA DE VALENCE

by Charles Baudelaire, translated to English by John Collings Squire

INSCRIPTION FOR THE PICTURE BY EDWARD MANET

Friends, though on every side of you you see
Such beauties that desire must hesitate,
In Lola de Valence there scintillate
Strange charms o’ a gem of rose and ebony.

 

Blossoms of Evil (1857) by Charles Baudelaire - Translated by John Collings Squire
THE OFFENDED MOON	DAMNÈD WOMEN

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