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SAD MADRIGAL, SELECTION by CHARLES BAUDELAIRE

Poet Analysis

First Line: WHAT CARE I THAT YOU BE WISE?
Last Line: WITH THE STORM THE BLOOM APPEARS.
Subject(s): EYES; GRIEF; STORMS; TEARS; SORROW; SADNESS;
What care I that you be wise?
Be beautiful! Be sad! For tears
Add a charm unto your eyes,
As streams to meadows where they rise;
With the storm the bloom appears.



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