Indolent darling, how I love

Dear indolent, I love to see,

To see the skin

In your body bright,

Of your body so beautiful

How like shimmering silk the skin

Shimmer like silk!

Reflects the light !

Upon your heavy head of hair

On the deep ocean of your hair

With its acrid scents,

Where perfume laves,

Adventurous, odorant sea

Odorous and vagabond sea

With blue and brown waves,

Of blue and brown waves,

Like a vessel that awakens

Like a vessel awakening

To the morning wind,

When morning winds rise

My dreamy soul sets sail

My dreaming soul begins to sail

For a distant sky.

Toward remote skies.

Your eyes where nothing is revealed

Your two eyes that neither sweetness

Of bitter or sweet,

Nor bitterness hold

Are two cold jewels where are mingled

Are two chilly gems mingled of

Iron and gold.

Iron and gold.

To see you walking in cadence

When you walk in rhythm, lovely

With fine abandon,

With abandonment,

One would say a snake which dances

You seem to be swayed by a wand,

On the end of a staff.

A dancing serpent.

Under the weight of indolence

Your child's head under the burden

Your child-like head sways

Of your indolence

Gently to and fro like the head

Sways as delicately as a

Of a young elephant,

Young elephant's,

And your body stretches and leans

And your body bends and straightens

Like a slender ship

Like a slender ship

That rolls from side to side and dips

That, plunging and rolling, lets the

Its yards in the sea.

Yards in water dip.

Like a stream swollen by the thaw

When, like a stream by thawing of

Of rumbling glaciers,

Glaciers made replete,

When the water of your mouth rises

The water of your mouth rises

To the edge of your teeth,

Up to your teeth,

It seems I drink Bohemian wine,

I drink a Bohemian wine,

Bitter and conquering,

Powerful and tart,

A liquid sky that scatters

A liquid sky that sows its stars

Stars in my heart!

Within my heart !