The Cake

The Cake, by Charles Pierre Baudelaire: A poem about the fleeting nature of pleasure and the inevitability of decay.

By Charles Pierre Baudelaire · First published 1857 · Genre: Fiction, Drama, Satire

More by Charles Pierre Baudelaire

• The Generous Gambler (1867)
• THE DANCE OF DEATH (1857)
• THE BEACONS (1869)
• THE SADNESS OF THE MOON (1857)
• EXOTIC PERFUME (1857)
• BEAUTY (1856)
• THE BALCONY (1859)
• THE SICK MUSE (1857)
• All works by Charles Pierre Baudelaire