Baudelaire's most famous poems
The top 3 according to 3 votes from people: Spleen ("When the low, heavy sky…") · To a Passer-by · To the Reader. (Updated Nov 9, 2023.)
The poems from Les Fleurs du mal (and the prose poems) that are most learned, quoted and studied.
Automatically translated (original in Français). See the original
Top 18
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Spleen ("When the low, heavy sky…")
The most famous of the four "Spleen" poems.
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2
To a Passer-by
A fleeting encounter in the street, from Tableaux parisiens.
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To the Reader
The opening poem, which calls the reader a hypocrite.
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4
The Albatross
The poet compared to a bird that is majestic in flight but clumsy on deck.
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5
Correspondences
The sonnet of synaesthesia, a manifesto for Symbolism.
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6
Invitation to the Voyage
A dreamed-of land of order and beauty.
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7
A Carcass
A corpse by the roadside; a poem that shocked.
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8
Get Drunk
Prose Poems. Always be drunk: on wine, poetry or virtue.
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9
Evening Harmony
A musical pantoum about dusk.
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10
Elevation
The spirit soaring above the world.
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11
Head of Hair
The beloved's hair as a voyage.
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12
Hymn to Beauty
Does beauty come from heaven or hell?
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13
The Cat
One of his poems about cats.
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14
Meditation
A calm dialogue with his own pain.
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15
The Voyage
The long poem that closes the 1861 edition.
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16
Benediction
The cursed poet's fate, from birth.
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17
The Beacons
A tribute to great painters, from Rubens to Delacroix.
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18
Exotic Perfume
A distant island conjured by a scent.
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