I went off with my hands in my torn coat pockets;

neither fever nor languor,on a bed or on a meadow.It is the friend neither violent nor weak.The friend.It is the beloved neithertormenting nor tormented.The beloved.Air and the world not sought.Life. –Was it really this?–And the dream grew cold.II.The lighting comes roundto the crown post again.From the two extremities of the room— decorations negligible— harmonic elevations…

and crystal disks thatturn black as bronze in the sun,I see the digitalis openingon a carpet of silver filigree,of eyes and hair. Yellow gold-piecesstrewn over agate, mahogany columns supportingemerald domes, bouquets of white satinand delicate sprays of rubies,surround the water-rose.Like a god with huge blue eyes and limbs of snow,the sea and sky lure to…

of a metropolis considered modernbecause all known tastehas been evaded in the furnishingsand the exterior of the housesas well as in the layout of the city.Here you will fail to detect the least traceof any monument of superstition.Morals and languageare reduced to their simplest expression,at last! The way these millions of people,who do not even…

Make this adored body, swelling and tremblingLike a specter, rise…Black and scarlet gashes burst in the gleaming flesh.The true colors of life grow dark,Shimmering and sperateIn the scaffolding, around the Vision.Shiverings mutter and rise,And the furious taste of these effects is chargedWith deadly whistlings and the raucous musicThat the world, far behind us, hurls at…

are nothing, nothing at all, compared with the warriors of Excisewho slash the blue frontiers with their great axe-blows.Pipes in their teeth, blades in their hands, deep, unruffled,when darkness noses at the woods like a cow’s muzzle, off they go,leading their dogs, to hold their nocturnal and terrible revels!They report the bacchantes to the laws…

Were shouting out loud, in the middle of town:‘Oh, my friends… I wanter her to be queen! ‘‘I want to be a queen! ‘She kept on laughing and trembling,While he talked to his friends about revelations,And tribulations at an end.They laughed and they leaned close to one another.And, of course, they were royal…All morning long,…