Charles Baudelaire – Il Ritratto / The Portrait
Johann Heinrich Füssli, Amor and Psyche, 1810 Disease and Death make ashesof all the fire that flamed for us.Of those wide eyes, so fervent and tender,of that mouth in which my heart was drowned,of those kisses potent as dittany,of those transports more vivid than sunbeams,what remains? It is frightful, O my soul!Nothing but a faint …