{"id":3822,"date":"2020-10-22T06:19:37","date_gmt":"2020-10-22T06:19:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/?p=3822"},"modified":"2024-05-22T19:31:14","modified_gmt":"2024-05-22T19:31:14","slug":"the-vampire-by-charles-baudelaire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/the-vampire-by-charles-baudelaire\/","title":{"rendered":"The Vampire by Charles Baudelaire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-3824 lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/apoemvampire-1024x572.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"572\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/apoemvampire-1024x572.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/apoemvampire-300x168.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/apoemvampire-768x429.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/apoemvampire.jpg 1087w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 1024px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 1024\/572;\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 18pt;\">The Vampire<\/span><br \/>\nBy Charles Baudelaire<\/p>\n<p>You who, like the stab of a knife,<br \/>\nEntered my plaintive heart;<br \/>\nYou who, strong as a herd<br \/>\nOf demons, came, ardent and adorned,<\/p>\n<p>To make your bed and your domain<br \/>\nOf my humiliated mind<br \/>\n&#8211; Infamous bitch to whom I&#8217;m bound<br \/>\nLike the convict to his chain,<\/p>\n<p>Like the stubborn gambler to the game,<br \/>\nLike the drunkard to his wine,<br \/>\nLike the maggots to the corpse,<br \/>\n&#8211; Accurst, accurst be you!<\/p>\n<p>I begged the swift poniard<br \/>\nTo gain for me my liberty,<br \/>\nI asked perfidious poison<br \/>\nTo give aid to my cowardice.<\/p>\n<p>Alas! both poison and the knife<br \/>\nContemptuously said to me:<br \/>\n&#8220;You do not deserve to be freed<br \/>\nFrom your accursed slavery,<\/p>\n<p>Fool! &#8211; if from her domination<br \/>\nOur efforts could deliver you,<br \/>\nYour kisses would resuscitate<br \/>\nThe cadaver of your vampire!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Published in 1857.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You who, like the stab of a knife,<br \/>\nEntered my plaintive heart;<br \/>\nYou who, strong as a herd<br \/>\nOf demons, came, ardent and adorned,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3824,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[659,418],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3822","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-charles-baudelaire","category-halloween-poems"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3822","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3822"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3822\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3824"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3822"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3822"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3822"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}