Charles Baudelaire, poetry

Excerpt of Charles Baudelaire's poem, "Be Drunken"

'It is the hour to be drunken
Be drunken if you would not be the
martyred slaves of Time.
Be drunken Continually, with wine, with
poetry or with virtue, as you please.'

- Charles Baudelaire (French Poet), "Be Drunken"

Complete poem, after the Jump:

TS Eliot, poetry & theatre

Excerpt of TS Eliot's poem "Choruses" from The Rock, a pageant play:

Where is the Life we have lost in living?
Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge?
Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?

- TS Eliot (American Poet), "Choruses"

Complete poem, after the Jump:

Hồ Xuân Hương, poem

Excerpt of a poem:

In the dead of night, nightwatcher's drums resound
I awake and find myself lonely in the vast world
After many an inebriating farewell cup, I come to my senses
The slanting moon on the wax is shaped like a crescent

- Hồ Xuân Hương (Vietnamese Poet), untitled

Complete poem, after the Jump