Bénédiction

Bénédiction (English: Benediction) is the second poem in Charles Baudelaire's 1857 poetry collection Les Fleurs du mal, after the introductory poem Au Lecteur ("To the Reader"). Bénédiction is also the first numbered poem. It describes the birth of the Poet amid his mother's rage, then his childhood experiences of beauty and the faith he places, despite his mother's curse and the contempt of all the world, in a destiny being prepared for him by God.