L’amour nouveau

William-Adolphe Bouguereau - Petite fille au bouquet
William-Adolphe Bouguereau – Petite fille au bouquet (1896) – The Athenaeum

L’amour se boit comme le vin. Il charme nos lèvres, puis notre langue, il nous enivre. L’amour nouveau est arrivé, frais et fruité, il fait les délices de nos journées d’hiver, de nos longues nuits noires. Buvons, buvons l’amour, sans modération. CONTINUE READING / CONTINUER LA LECTURE…

Sapphics, by Eric Stenbock

Eric Stenbock
Eric Stenbock – from Strange Flowers on WordPress

Count Eric Stenbock (1860–1895) is a lesser-known ‘Decadent’ writer. In his short lifetime, he published three short collections of poetry, Love, Sleep & Dreams (1881), Myrtle, Rue and Cypress (1883) and The Shadow of Death (1893), a collection of short stories, Studies of Death (1894), and a separate short story, “The Other Side: A Breton Legend,” in The Spirit Lamp (Vol. IV, No. 2 June 1893). CONTINUE READING / CONTINUER LA LECTURE…