Baudelaire, Charles. “The Revenant.”

With an angelic, rapacious eye

I shall return to where you lie,

And to you I shall soft alight

With all the darkness of the night.

I shall, to you, my dark and fair,

Give kisses cold as moonlit air

And caresses like a serpent's lust

Twisting in the lightless dust.

When comes the morning, cold and pale,

You will look without avail

For me, for I shall not be near.

While others, by their tenderness

Prevail upon your innocence,

I shall claim your heart by fear.

- Charles Baudelaire

Charles Baudelaire

Charles Pierre Baudelaire was a French poet, essayist, translator and Art Critic. His poems are described as exhibiting mastery of rhyme and rhythm, containing an exoticism inherited from the Romantics, and are based on observations of real life.