Fleurs du mal / Flowers of Evil
1861 Edition
The first edition of Les Fleurs du mal sold out within a year of its publication, thanks in part to the succès de scandale created by the government's obscenity trial against the book. Anxious to keep his poems in print, Baudelaire agitated for several years for another edition to be published. In addition, he composed new poems to add to the collection, including several works such as "Le Cygne" and "Le Voyage" which are today regarded as masterpieces.
The second edition of Les Fleurs du mal entered the bookshops of Paris in the first week of February 1861. Readers spent three francs to purchase the new edition, of which fifteen hundred copies had been printed (plus a few hors commerce on fine paper). This edition, now considered definitive, lacked the six poems censored by the French government but contained a new subdivision ("Tableaux parisiens"), thirty-five new poems, and a portrait of the author by Félix Bracquemond.
Poems added to the second edition are indicated below by red guillemets like this ».
Table of Contents
Dedication
To the Reader
Spleen et idéal / Spleen and Ideal
Benediction
The Albatross
Elevation
Correspondences
I love the memory of those naked epochs...
The Beacons
The Sick Muse
The Venal Muse
The Bad Monk
The Enemy
Bad Luck
Past Life
Traveling Gypsies
Man and the Sea
Don Juan in Hell
Punishment of Pride
Beauty
The Ideal
The Giantess
The Mask
Hymn to Beauty
Exotic Perfume
Hair
I adore you as much as the nocturnal vault...
You would take the entire world to bed with you...
Never Satisfied
With her pearly undulating dresses...
The Dancing Serpent
A Carcass
From the Depths I Cried
The Vampire
One night when I lay beside a frightful Jewess...
Posthumous Remorse
The cat
The Duel
The Balcony
The Possessed
A Phantom
I give you these verses so if my name...
Always the Same
All Together
What will you say tonight, poor solitary soul...
The Living Torch
Reversibility
Confession
Spiritual Dawn
Evening Harmony
The Perfume Flask
Poison
Cloudy Sky
The Cat
The Beautiful Ship
Invitation to the Voyage
The Irreparable
Conversation
Autumn Song
To a Madonna
Afternoon Song
Sisina
In Praise of My Frances
To a Creole Lady
Grieving and Wandering
The Ghost
Autumn Sonnet
Sorrows of the Moon
The Cats
The Owls
The Pipe
Music
Sepulchre
A Fantastic Engraving
The Grateful Dead
The Cask of Hatred
The Broken Bell
Spleen (Pluvius, irritated...)
Spleen (I have more memories...)
Spleen (I'm like the king...)
Spleen (When the sky low and heavy...)
Obsession
The Taste for Nothingness
The Alchemy of Grief
Sympathetic Horror
The Self-Tormenter
The Irremediable
The Clock
Tableaux Parisiens / Parisian Scenes
Landscape
The Sun
To a Mendicant Redhead
The Swan
The Seven Old Men
The Little Old Ladies
The Blind
To a Passerby
The Hard-Working Skeleton
Evening Crepuscule
Gambling
Danse Macabre
The Love of Lies
I have not forgotten, near the city...
The kind-hearted servant of whom you were jealous...
Mists and Rains
Parisian Dream
Morning Crepuscule
Le Vin / Wine
The Soul of Wine
The Rag-Picker's Wine
The Murderer's Wine
The Lonely Man's Wine
The Lovers' Wine
Fleurs du mal / Flowers of Evil
Destruction
A Martyr
Women Doomed (Like pensive cattle...)
The Two Good Sisters
The Fountain of Blood
Allegory
Beatrice
A Voyage to Cythera
Love and the Skull
Révolte / Revolt
The Denial of Saint Peter
Abel and Cain
The Litanies of Satan
La Mort / Death
The Death of Lovers
The Death of the Poor
The Death of Artists
End of the Day
Dream of a Curious Man
The Voyage