Emoções e Sentimentos

IV.

1.
When thou didst speak but now I felt
        A terror mad and strange.
Conceive it thou. I could have knelt
To thy lips, to their curve, to its change.
        The talking curve of thy lips
        And thy teeth but slightly shown
Were my delirium's waking whips.
        I felt my reason overthrown.

A super-sensual fetichism
        Haunts my deep-raving brain.
Greater than ever grows the abysm
Of my reason's and feeling's schism,
        Cut with the pickaxe of pain.

More than they show all things contain.

2.
Something not of this world doth lie
        In thy smile, in thy lips live turn;
A figure, a form I know not why
That wakes in me — without a sigh
        But with terror I cannot spurn
        With terror wild and mute —
Is it remembrances, is it
        Desires so vague half-known they flit
And not in thought nor sentiment take root?

        My mind grows madder and more fit
        In everything to catch and find
        Meanings, resemblances defined
        By not a form that thought can hit.

Smile not. Thou canst not comprehend!
        What is this? What truth doth sleep
        In these ravings without end
                And beyond notion deep?
Laugh not. Know'st thou what madness is?
Wonder not. All is mysteries.
        Ask not. For who can reply?
Weep for me, child, but do not love me
Who have in me too much that is above me,
        Too much I cannot call «I».
        Weep for the ruin of my mind
Weep rather, child, that things so deep should move me
        To lose the clear thoughts that could prove me
                One worthy of mankind.

IV.

1.
When thou didst speak but now I felt
        A terror mad and strange.
Conceive it thou. I could have knelt
To thy lips, to their curve, to its change.
        The talking curve of thy lips
        And thy teeth but slightly shown
Were my delirium's waking whips.
        I felt my reason overthrown.

A super-sensual fetichism
        Haunts my deep-raving brain.
Greater than ever grows the abysm
Of my reason's and feeling's schism,
        Cut with the pickaxe of pain.

More than they show all things contain.

2.
Something not of this world doth lie
        In thy smile, in thy lips live turn;
A figure, a form I know not why
That wakes in me — without a sigh
        But with terror I cannot spurn
        With terror wild and mute —
Is it remembrances, is it
        Desires so vague half-known they flit
And not in thought nor sentiment take root?

        My mind grows madder and more fit
        In everything to catch and find
        Meanings, resemblances defined
        By not a form that thought can hit.

Smile not. Thou canst not comprehend!
        What is this? What truth doth sleep
        In these ravings without end
                And beyond notion deep?
Laugh not. Know'st thou what madness is?
Wonder not. All is mysteries.
        Ask not. For who can reply?
Weep for me, child, but do not love me
Who have in me too much that is above me,
        Too much I cannot call «I».
        Weep for the ruin of my mind
Weep rather, child, that things so deep should move me
        To lose the clear thoughts that could prove me
                One worthy of mankind.

IV.

1.
When thou didst speak but now I felt
        A terror mad and strange.
Conceive it thou. I could have knelt
To thy lips, to their curve, to its change.
        The talking curve of thy lips
        And thy teeth but slightly shown
Were my delirium's waking whips.
        I felt my reason overthrown.

A super-sensual fetichism
        Haunts my deep-raving brain.
Greater than ever grows the abysm
Of my reason's and feeling's schism,
        Cut with the pickaxe of pain.

More than they show all things contain.

2.
Something not of this world doth lie
        In thy smile, in thy lips live turn;
A figure, a form I know not why
That wakes in me — without a sigh
        But with terror I cannot spurn
        With terror wild and mute —
Is it remembrances, is it
        Desires so vague half-known they flit
And not in thought nor sentiment take root?

        My mind grows madder and more fit
        In everything to catch and find
        Meanings, resemblances defined
        By not a form that thought can hit.

Smile not. Thou canst not comprehend!
        What is this? What truth doth sleep
        In these ravings without end
                And beyond notion deep?
Laugh not. Know'st thou what madness is?
Wonder not. All is mysteries.
        Ask not. For who can reply?
Weep for me, child, but do not love me
Who have in me too much that is above me,
        Too much I cannot call «I».
        Weep for the ruin of my mind
Weep rather, child, that things so deep should move me
        To lose the clear thoughts that could prove me
                One worthy of mankind.

Apollo unto Neptune said:
        «Come, I shall drink the sea!»
But Neptune laughed out like a lad
        In his boyish jollity,
And cried: «You would drink the earth, if you could,
        And infinity.»
And the poet the symbol who understood
        Felt his misery.

Apollo unto Neptune said:
        «Come, I shall drink the sea!»
But Neptune laughed out like a lad
        In his boyish jollity,
And cried: «You would drink the earth, if you could,
        And infinity.»
And the poet the symbol who understood
        Felt his misery.

Apollo unto Neptune said:
        «Come, I shall drink the sea!»
But Neptune laughed out like a lad
        In his boyish jollity,
And cried: «You would drink the earth, if you could,
        And infinity.»
And the poet the symbol who understood
        Felt his misery.

Este é o riso daquela
Em que não se reparou.
Quando a gente se acautela
Vê que não se acautelou.

Nirvana

Vou dormir, dormir, dormir,
Vou dormir sem despertar,
Mas não dormir sem sentir
Que estou dormindo a sonhar.

Não insciência e só treva
Mas também estrelas a abrir
Olhos cujo olhar me enleva,
Que estou sonhando a dormir.

Constelada inexistência
Em que subsiste de meu
Só uma abstracta insciência
Una com estrelas e céu.

Nirvana

Vou dormir, dormir, dormir,
Vou dormir sem despertar,
Mas não dormir sem sentir
Que estou dormindo a sonhar.

Não insciência e só treva
Mas também estrelas a abrir
Olhos cujo olhar me enleva,
Que estou sonhando a dormir.

Constelada inexistência
Em que subsiste de meu
Só uma abstracta insciência
Una com estrelas e céu.

«I love my dreams», I said, a winter morn,
To the practical man, and he, in scorn,
Replied: «I am no slave of the Ideal,
But, as all men of sense, I love the Real.»
Poor fool, mistaking all that is and seems!
I love the Real when I love my dreams.

Baila em teu pulso delgado
Uma pulseira que herdaste...
Se amar alguém é pecado,
És santa, nunca pecaste.

Comi melão retalhado
E bebi vinho depois,
Quanto mais olho p’ra ti
Mais sei que não somos dois.

III.

        Eyes are strange things.
Meaning in them becomes life,
        Life in them has wings.

Look at me thus. Thy glance is mad and rare.
Thine eyes show deep and wild an inner strife.
        How they are more than Horror fair!

Manjerico, manjerico,
Manjerico que te dei,
A tristeza com que fico
Inda amanhã a terei.

Vida, morte,
Riso, pranto
É o manto
Que me cobre.
Natureza,
Amor, beleza,
Tudo quanto
A alma descobre.

O Mistério
Deste mundo
Teu profundo
Olhar leu;
D'além dele —
Cerra a alma
De pavor! —
Venho eu.
Nada, nada
Já acalma
Tua dor.
Tu bem sabes
Ser minha voz
Mais atroz
De mudo horror
No que não diz,
E só tu sentes
E compreendes.
Cerra, infeliz
Cerra a (tua) alma
Ao meu pavor!

(Fausto, com os olhos fechados, encolhido na cadeira, treme como que dum grande frio.)

Cantos, risos e flores alumiem
        Nosso mortal destino,
Para o ermo ocultar fundo, nocturno
        De nosso pensamento,
Curvado, já em vida, sob a ideia
        Do plutónico gozo,
Cônscio já da lívida esperança
        Do caos redivivo.

Life tastes to me like golden tobacco.
I have never done anything but smoke life.

After all of what use was it to me to have
Gone to the East and seen India and China?
The earth is similar and little
And there is only one way of living.

I pretended to study engineering.
I lived in Scotland. I visited Ireland.
My heart is a poor grandmother who goes about
Begging at the doors of Joy.

I am unfortunate by primogeniture.
The gipsies stole my luck.
Perhaps I shall not even find near death
A place to shelter me from my cold.

And I was a child like other people.
I was born in a Portuguese province,
And have met English people
Who say I speak English perfectly.

Life tastes to me like golden tobacco.
I have never done anything but smoke life.

After all of what use was it to me to have
Gone to the East and seen India and China?
The earth is similar and little
And there is only one way of living.

I pretended to study engineering.
I lived in Scotland. I visited Ireland.
My heart is a poor grandmother who goes about
Begging at the doors of Joy.

I am unfortunate by primogeniture.
The gipsies stole my luck.
Perhaps I shall not even find near death
A place to shelter me from my cold.

And I was a child like other people.
I was born in a Portuguese province,
And have met English people
Who say I speak English perfectly.

Grinalda ou coroa
É só peso posto
Na fronte antes limpa.

Grinalda de rosas,
Coroa de louros,
A fronte transtornam.

Que o vento nos possa
Mexer nos cabelos,
Refrescar a fronte!

Que a fronte despida
Possa reclinar-se,
Serena, onde durma.

Cloé! Não conheço
Melhor alegria
Que esta fronte lisa.

Grinalda ou coroa
É só peso posto
Na fronte antes limpa.

Grinalda de rosas,
Coroa de louros,
A fronte transtornam.

Que o vento nos possa
Mexer nos cabelos,
Refrescar a fronte!

Que a fronte despida
Possa reclinar-se,
Serena, onde durma.

Cloé! Não conheço
Melhor alegria
Que esta fronte lisa.

There is no peace save where I am not,
The woods are gay where I never pass,
Nothing but shadows are where my thought
Plunges its feet in the moist dead grass.

Nothing save shadows and day elsewhere
Waiting for those that await and hope.
A horror lays its wind on my hair,
And a cold hand does for my cold hand grope.

Yet nothing in me save pain merits this,
Nothing in me save this merits pain.
Oh, Mother of Shadows, whose ice-dead kiss
Is madness, hasten towards my brain!

There is no peace save where I am not,
The woods are gay where I never pass,
Nothing but shadows are where my thought
Plunges its feet in the moist dead grass.

Nothing save shadows and day elsewhere
Waiting for those that await and hope.
A horror lays its wind on my hair,
And a cold hand does for my cold hand grope.

Yet nothing in me save pain merits this,
Nothing in me save this merits pain.
Oh, Mother of Shadows, whose ice-dead kiss
Is madness, hasten towards my brain!

There is no peace save where I am not,
The woods are gay where I never pass,
Nothing but shadows are where my thought
Plunges its feet in the moist dead grass.

Nothing save shadows and day elsewhere
Waiting for those that await and hope.
A horror lays its wind on my hair,
And a cold hand does for my cold hand grope.

Yet nothing in me save pain merits this,
Nothing in me save this merits pain.
Oh, Mother of Shadows, whose ice-dead kiss
Is madness, hasten towards my brain!

Cada momento que a um prazer não voto
Perco, nem curo se o prazer me é dado;
        Porque o sonho de um gozo
        No gozo não é sonho.