Music [Oft Music possesses me like the seas]

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Title:     Music [Oft Music possesses me like the seas]
Author: Charles Baudelaire [More Titles by Baudelaire]

Translator: Cyril Scott

Oft Music possesses me like the seas!
To my planet pale,
'Neath a ceiling of mist, in the lofty breeze,
I set my sail.

With inflated lungs and expanded chest,
Like to a sail,
On the backs of the heaped-up billows I rest--
Which the shadows veil--

I feel all the anguish within me arise
Of a ship in distress;
The tempest, the rain, 'neath the lowering skies,

My body caress;
At times, the calm pool or the mirror clear
Of my despair!

[The end]
Charles Baudelaire's poem: Music

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