Flowers Of Evil & Paris Spleen
Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9780918526861 (0918526868)
Publish date: January 1st 1994
Publisher: BOA Editions, Ltd.
Pages no: 489
Edition language: English
The GiantessAt that time when Nature in her powerful ardor Conceived monstrous children each day, I would have loved living near a young giantess, As a voluptuous cat at the feet of a queen. I should like to have seen her body flower with her soul And grow freely in her dreadful games; And guess w...
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