You invaded my sorrowful heart
Like the sudden stroke of a blade;
Bold as a lunatic troupe
Of demons in drunken parade,
You in my mortified soul
Made your bed and your domain;
Abhorrence, to whom 1 am bound
As the convict is to the chain,
As the drunkard is to the jug,
As the gambler to the game,
As to the vermin the corpse,
I damn you, out of my shame!
And I prayed to the eager sword
To win my deliverance,
And have asked the perfidious vial
To redeem my cowardice.
Alas! the vial and the sword
Disdainfully said to me;
'You are not worthy to lift
From your wretched slavery,
You fool! if from her command
Our efforts delivered you forth,
Your kisses would waken again
Your vampire lover's corpse!'
The Vampyre
Charles Baudelaire
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Poem topics: heart, soul, bold, chain, fool, game, shame, deliverance, command, bound, eager, sword, I love you, I miss you, Print This Poem , Rhyme Scheme
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