The Poem of Hashish1971

Path : culture > characters > baudelaire_charles Help support Erowid with a simple $10 Paypal donation. The Poem of Hashish by Charles Baudelaire translated by Aleister Crowley 1895 CHAPTER I: THE LONGING FOR INFINITY Those who know how to observe themselves, and who preserve the memory of their impressions, those who, like Hoffmann, have known how to construct their spiritual barometer, have sometimes had to note in the observatory of their mind find seasons, happy days, delicious minutes. There are days when man awakes with a young and vigorous genius. Though his eyelids be scarcely released from the slumber which sealed them, the exterior world shows itself to him with a powerful relief, a clearness of contour, and a richness of colour which are admirable. The moral world...