Over 50 Scandalous Poems Relating to Decadence and Eroticism. Poetry - Decadence and Eroticism. The Flowers of Evil. Les Fleurs du mal. Charles Baudelaire. Translated into English Verse by Cyril Scott FULL ENGLISH TRANSLATION - COMPLETE Les Fleurs du mal (English: The Flowers of Evil) is a volume of French poetry by Charles Baudelaire. First published in 1857 (see 1857 in poetry), it was important in the symbolist and modernist movements. The poems deal with themes relating to decadence and eroticism. The author and the publisher were prosecuted under the regime of the Second Empire as an outrage aux bonnes m