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I shall not come when thou wilt call,
        For when thou call'st I am with thee.
        When I think of thee, within me
Thyself art, and thy thought self’s all.

Thy presence is thy absence drest
        In thy body that hides thy soul.
Tis in me that thou art possessed,
        'Tis in my thoughts that thou art whole.

Outside thee, given to time and space,
        Thy body, thy mere loss to me,
Partakes of change and age and place?
        Belongs to other laws than thee.

In my dream of thee nothing changes
        Thyself to other than thou art.
        Thy corporal presence is that part
Of thee that thee from thee estranges.

Therefore call me, but await not.
        Thy voice, summed to my dreaming thee,
Shall put new beauty on that thought
        Of thy body that dwells in me.

Thy voice heard from afar shall bring
        Nearer to me thy presence dreamed.
        Brighter and clearer than it seemed
It grow'th in my imagining.

Then call no more. Thy voice twice heard
        Along the real space would be
        Too near now to reality.
Thy second voice were thy first blurred.

Call me but once. I close mine eyes
        And let the second call be dreamed,
        Thy body's vision lightly gleamed
On my seeing memory of thy cries.

The rest, eyes shut lest thou appear.
        Shall be thy clear continuance
        In my dream's constancy askance.
Keep far, keep silent, come not here,

For thou wouldst come too near for sight
        And out of my thoughts step to thee,
        Putting on thy dreamed body in me
        (Thy body's form‑dream infinite)
        Thy limit, visibility.

Esse frio cumprimento
Tem ironia p’ra mim.
Porque é o mesmo movimento
Com que a gente diz que sim...

Doce é o fruto à vista, e à boca amaro,
Breve é a vida ao tempo e longa à alma.
        A arte, com que todos,
—  Ora sem saber  virando os copos,
Ora, enchendo-os, consiste em nos ousarmos,
        Chegada a morte, despi-la.

Doce é o fruto à vista, e à boca amaro,
Breve é a vida ao tempo e longa à alma.
        A arte, com que todos,
—  Ora sem saber  virando os copos,
Ora, enchendo-os, consiste em nos ousarmos,
        Chegada a morte, despi-la.

Beside a summer's day
        I lay me down and dreamed.
The light from far away
        In my withinned self gleamed,
An unreal true glow,
Spiritually somehow.

I saw the inner side
        Of summer, earth and morn.
I heard the rivers glide
        From Within. l was borne
To see, through mysteries,
How God everything is.

The motes of sun that dance
        Are audibly whispered.
All is an utterance.
        The sight may hear. I shed
Vision of things as things.
My thoughts are angels' wings.

The corpses of known hours
        In barks unsteered and left
Float, covered with mute flowers,
        Down my dream that is cleft
In banks of mystery ­-
This summer day and I.

And something like a greed
        And yet unlike a wish,
The power to have a need
        Which doth not needing reach,
But is dissolved again
Ere its sad joy reach pain,

A shadowy lightness woven
        Of the day and of me,
Like sparkling water driven
        Never but where we see,
A gap, a pause, a dim
Looking over things' rim,

Starts like a sudden flute
        Pastoral with tuneless notes
Out of the unseen root
        Of all my being denotes,
Spreads, till I feel it not,
O'er my lost sense of thought.

And lo! I am another.
        My senses taste not‑mine.
A hand my sight doth smother
        To a blind sight divine.
I am a lost tune, a mood
Of the finger‑tips of God.

So, like a child‑king crowned,
        I feel new with fear‑pride.
I am robed with sky and ground.
        My inmost soul's outside
Is sunlit seas and lands.
My dreams are seraphs' hands.

Duas vezes jurei ser
O que julgo que sou,
Só para desconhecer
Que não sei para onde vou.

Tem a filha da caseira
Rosas na caixa que tem.
Toda ela é uma rosa inteira
Mas não a cheira ninguém.

Boca que o riso desata
Numa alegria engraçada,
És como a prata lavrada
Que é mais o lavor que a prata.

Lenço preto de orla branca —
Ataste-o mal a valer
À roda desse pescoço
Que tem que se lhe dizer.

O rosário da vontade,
Rezei-o trocado e a esmo.
Se vens dizer-me a verdade,
Vê lá bem se é isso mesmo.

Vejo lágrimas luzir
Nos teus olhos de fingida.
É como quando à janela
Chegas, um pouco escondida.

O pescador do mar alto
Vem contente de pescar.
Se prometo, sempre falto:
Receio não agradar.

Teus olhos poisam no chão
Para não me olhar de frente.
Tens vontade de sorrir
Ou de rir? É tão diferente!

Deixaste o dedal na mesa
Só pelo tempo da ausência —
Se eu to roubasse dirias
Que eu não tinha consciência.

One day, Time having ceased,
        Our lives shall meet again,
From Place and Name released.
        Only that shall remain
Of each of us that may
Seem natural to that Day.

There we will newly love,
        Wondering at the old mood
With which love did us move,
        When pain and solitude
Were what each soul had got
For its contingent lot.

There, heaven being between us
        And touch a real thing,
The texture luminous
        Of our true lives will bring
God into our love like breath.
Nowhere will there be death.

The need to suffer and sigh,
        The inevitable cares,
The awaiting and the cry
        That goes from joy to tears -
These have no need to be
In love's eternity.

The hours shall make our love
        Grow younger, not more old.
Some trick of time shall move
        Wont even to truer gold,
Regret shall not be aught
Possible there to thought.

That region light‑suspended
        Under truer blue skies
Shall let our souls feel blended,
        Yet be true unities.
Nought shall have power to fret
Our hearts to tire of it.

A golden land where God
        Stayed a Day of His Time,
Not as the world, where not
        A moment did he abide,
And where His passing left
The sense of aught bereft.

My heart, that thinks of this,
        Pines, for it is nowhere,
And she that meets my bliss
        With her new old love there -
She is unreal as all
That to this verse I call.

Yet who knows? Perhaps this
        Is not wishing, but seeing.
Perhaps this love, this bliss,
        This conscious glad not‑being
Is some reality
Through fancy seen by me.

Perhaps it casts a spell
        From where it can be found.
What is impossible?
        Where is God's bourne and bound?
Why, if I dream this, may
Not this be mine one day?

Who knows what our dreams are?
        Who knows all that God makes?
Perhaps life doth but mar
        The immediate truth that takes
Its beauty from being dreamed.
Nothing eter merely seemed.

Somewhere where God is nearer
        These things are een now true.
Oh, let me be no fearer
        That this may not be so!
All is more strange than that
Small glimpse of it we get.

Mine eyes are wild with joy
        Because I have these thoughts.
They cannot tire nor cloy
        Because God ever allots
To each high thing the power
To weigh not on its hour.

My flower garden is
        Full of new flowers now.
My lips are kissed by bliss
        Because I know not how.
My heart fails and I swim
Within a luminous rim.

A halo of hope comes round
        My soul. I am that child
That cries: Lo! I have found
        This flower strange and wild.
The unknown flower I have
Grew on my dead dreams' grave.

A trembling sense of being
        More than my sense can hold,
A bird of feeling seeing
        The great, earth‑hidden gold
Of the approaching dawn,
A breath, a light, a swoon,

A presence interwoven
        With rays of other light,
A spell, a power untroven
        Of my more clear delight,
I faint, I fade, I seem
Myself to be my dream.

And if this be not so,
        Oh, God, make it now be!
Let me not find more woe
        Because I so dreamed Thee!
Let aught for which I pine
Merit being divine.

Let this resemble heaven
        And be my home for e'er,
Even if for e'er mean living
        But this hour really fair.
An hour in God shall be
Enough eternity.

Rezas porque outros rezaram,
E vestes à moda alheia...
Quando amares vê se amas
Sem teres o amor na ideia.

Há uma cor que me persegue e que eu odeio,
Há uma cor que se insinua no meu medo.
        Porque é que as cores têm força
        De persistir na nossa alma,
                Como fantasmas?
Há uma cor que me persegue e hora a hora
A sua cor se torna a cor que é a minha alma.

Aquela loura de preto
Com uma flor branca ao peito,
É o retrato completo
De como alguém é perfeito.

Loura, teus olhos de céu
Têm um azul que é fatal.
Bem sei: foi Deus que tos deu.
Mas então Deus fez o mal?

Tens uns brincos sem valia
E um lenço que não é nada,
Mas quem dera ter o dia
De quem és a madrugada.

Há um doido na nossa voz
Ao falarmos, que prendemos:
É o mal-estar entre nós
Que vem de nos percebermos.

Esse xaile que arranjaste,
Com que pareces mais alta
Dá ao teu corpo esse brio
Que à minha coragem falta.

Esse xaile que arranjaste,
Com que pareces mais alta
Dá ao teu corpo esse brio
Que à minha coragem falta.

The day is glad and golden.
Over the sunhit beach
The waves do gladly embolden
Their crisp and clinging reach.

Would I were one as they
With the natural hour,
With the wide sunlit day
And the ancient sea's power.

I would not be here weeping
That I am not aught else,
My waking would be a sleeping
Like this of the sea swells

Not like an outcast from
A home I never knew
Would I be pining for home,
……

Not like a tossed sea‑weed
Between the wave and the wave,
And restless with a mute greed
For something I cannot have.

Something I cannot een dream,
Some spent life I know not...
Oh how fair would nature seem
Were it not for thought!

Dark is the golden day
Unto mine eyes that stare
Brightness and joy away
From sky and shore and here.

Dead is the changing sea,
The wind a monotone,
Oh ever to be he
That never is but alone,

I cannot dream of heaven,
Nor create one in the hour...
Pass, day, and ask not even
For my grateful eyes' dower...