The Flowers of Evil poetry by Charles Baudelaire

Free eBook Les Fleurs du mal The Flowers of Evil is a volume of French poetry by Charles Baudelaire. First published in 1857, it was important in the symbolist and modernist movements. The poems deal with themes relating to decadence and eroticism


The author and the publisher were prosecuted under the regime of the Second Empire as an insult to public decency.
As a consequence of this prosecution, Baudelaire was fined 300 francs. Six poems from the work were suppressed and the ban on their publication was not lifted in France until 1949.

list of poems

Benediction
Echoes
The Sick Muse
The Venal Muse
The Evil Monk
The Enemy
Ill Luck
Interior Life
Man and the Sea
Beauty
The Ideal
The Giantess
Hymn to Beauty
Exotic Perfume
La Chevelure
Sonnet XXVIII
Posthumous Remorse
The Balcony
The Possessed One
Semper Eadem
All Entire
Sonnet XLIII
The Living Torch
The Spiritual Dawn
Evening Harmony
Overcast Sky
Invitation to a Journey
"Causerie"
Autumn Song
Sisina
To a Creolean Lady
Moesta et Errabunda
The Ghost
Autumn Song
Sadness of the Moon-Goddess
Cats
Owls
Music
The Joyous Defunct
The Broken Bell
Spleen
Obsession
Magnetic Horror
The Lid
Bertha's Eyes
The Set of the Romantic Sun
Meditation
To a Passer-by
Illusionary Love
Mists and Rains
The Wine of Lovers
Condemned Women
The Death of the Lovers
The Death of the Poor