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Se eu te pudesse dizer
O que nunca te direi,
Tu terias que entender
Aquilo que nem eu sei.

Se eu te pudesse dizer
O que nunca te direi,
Tu terias que entender
Aquilo que nem eu sei.

Seldom have I so inly comprehended
With a deep sense so awful and so rude
My complete being's complete solitude
In all its arid loneliness extended

So wholly solitude, so much unblended
With aught else, good or ill, that might intrude
Upon its horror limitless and nude
Whereat my reason reels, not by (...) defended.
And save it from itself (…)

Tiraste o linho da arca,
Da arca tiraste o linho.
Meu coração tem a marca
Que lhe puseste mansinho.

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

Lavadeira a bater roupa
Na pedra que está na água,
Achas a minha mágoa pouca?
É muito tudo o que é mágoa.

Even as upon a low and cloud-domed day,
When clouds are one cloud till the horizon.
Our thinking senses deem the sun away
And say «'tis sunless» and «there is no sun»;
And yet the very day they wrong truth by
Is of the unseen sun's effluent essence,
The very words do give themselves the lie,
The very thought of absence comes from presence:
Even so deem we through Good of what is evil.
He speaks of light that speaks of absent light,
And absent god, becoming present devil,
Is still the absent god by essence' right.
The withdrawn cause by being withdrawn doth get
(Being thereby cause still) the denied effect.

Bailaste de noite ao som
De uma música estragada.
Bailar assim só é bom
Quando a alegria é de nada.

Bailaste de noite ao som
De uma música estragada.
Bailar assim só é bom
Quando a alegria é de nada.

I feel pale and I shiver.
        What power of the moonlight
Tremulous under the river
        Thus pains me with delight?

What spell told by the moon
        Unlooses all my soul?
O speak to me! I swoon!
        I fade from life's control!

I am a far spirit, e'en
        In the felt place of me.
O river too serene
        For my tranquillity!

O ache somehow of living!
        O sorrow for something!
O moon‑pain the sense‑giving
        That I am vainly king

In some spell‑bound realm mute,
        In a lunar land lone!
O ache as of a dying flute
        When we would have't play on!

Outros com liras ou com harpas narram,
       Eu com meu pensamento.
Que, por meio de música, acham nada
        Se acham só o que sentem.
Mais pesam as palavras que, medidas,
        Dizem que o mundo existe.

Outros com liras ou com harpas narram,
       Eu com meu pensamento.
Que, por meio de música, acham nada
        Se acham só o que sentem.
Mais pesam as palavras que, medidas,
        Dizem que o mundo existe.

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.

1.
Little flower that wert on the hill,
Where art thou to-day?
Thou that saw'st thyself in the rill
Art thou gone away?
Ah, now I see that thou art dead
And that thy charm from us is fled.

I.
Once in a theatre comic
’Tween acts I pondered to see
On a column sculptured, wide and comic,
The grinning mask of Comedy;
And broad and wild in satyr-glee,
The grinning face of Comedy.

II.
«Ah,» said I, «face merry and comic,
There is happiness in thee,
Few faces like thine, wide-mouth'd and comic,
Oh, grinning face of Comedy;
Boisterously wrinkled, ugly and free,
The grinning mask of Comedy.»

III.
But as I gazed at the face that smiled,
With mine eyes half-dreamfully,
«Ah,» said I, «it is forced and wild,
Untrue smile of pitiless glee;
Forcedly wrinkled, unreal, unfree,
Hard-grinning mask of Comedy.»

IV.
And I trembled — now it no longer smiled,
It had forcedly smiled — now not even so.
Oh, fearful face, terribly wild,
Terribly silent face or woe;
Worn, hysterical, mad, unfree,
Woe-twisted face of Comedy.

I.
Once in a theatre comic
’Tween acts I pondered to see
On a column sculptured, wide and comic,
The grinning mask of Comedy;
And broad and wild in satyr-glee,
The grinning face of Comedy.

II.
«Ah,» said I, «face merry and comic,
There is happiness in thee,
Few faces like thine, wide-mouth'd and comic,
Oh, grinning face of Comedy;
Boisterously wrinkled, ugly and free,
The grinning mask of Comedy.»

III.
But as I gazed at the face that smiled,
With mine eyes half-dreamfully,
«Ah,» said I, «it is forced and wild,
Untrue smile of pitiless glee;
Forcedly wrinkled, unreal, unfree,
Hard-grinning mask of Comedy.»

IV.
And I trembled — now it no longer smiled,
It had forcedly smiled — now not even so.
Oh, fearful face, terribly wild,
Terribly silent face or woe;
Worn, hysterical, mad, unfree,
Woe-twisted face of Comedy.

São já onze horas da noite.
Porque te não vais deitar?
Se de nada serve ver-te,
Mais vale não te fitar.

Dois é o prazer: gozar e o gozá-lo.
Ao néscio elege o parvo, o sábio ao outro.
        E o igual fado é diverso.
Na taça que ergo, ondeio, e vejo, as bolhas
Incluo no que sinto, e ao beber
        Mais puro está no gosto.

O anel dado ao mendigo é injúria, e a sorte
Dada a quem pensa é infâmia, que quem pensa —
        Quer verdade, e não sorte.

Como um mendigo a quem é dado o nome
De rei, não come dele, mas do prato
        Do rei, minha esperança
Da razão que lia em tê-la se alimenta
        E não do que deseja.

O anel dado ao mendigo é injúria, e a sorte
Dada a quem pensa é infâmia, que quem pensa —
        Quer verdade, e não sorte.

Como um mendigo a quem é dado o nome
De rei, não come dele, mas do prato
        Do rei, minha esperança
Da razão que lia em tê-la se alimenta
        E não do que deseja.

Sorrow sits by my side
Fondling my careless hair.
She is the lady of golden
Gestures to silence beholden.
Only she does not deride
My dreams and what makes them fair.

Now she doth cease and whisper
The use of dreams to my soul.
She tells me they mean God's blessing
The spirit's shining releasing
From the world's weight and sister
To life's unchanging whole.

Oh for a less meaningless horizon than the land and the sea!
Oh for a rest from places and a lapse from the sense of times!
Waves, ever waves, to and fro … Ever waves roll, and we
What do we wait, what do we seek, what do we pause for and flee?
What in us lusts for more round us than the strech of minutes and climes?

Ah, and no bark to bear us towards Impossible, and that a real place,
An attainable place, full of the depths and rests of the Unattainable!
But ever the sea, the sea, like the passing of many a face...
Ever the sea, and the sea runs a restless and half-hearted race
Towards not the shore, nor the land, but what? Who can measure or tell?

No ship to bear us homeward, past earth and sea and the sky!
None to spread sails to a breeze blowing but not with a whither!
And ever, like a lost meaning, the sea never passing by,
Ever the measurable sea, sad as a formless cry,
And the most hearts can be is (to) be two and sorrow together!

To-morrow will tire us of all! But we lack heart to be tired indeed
The purpose our souls came for is lost and never stared at...
Let us at least by the shore construe our aches for a deed
Into a meaningless ache and a desolate and purposeless greed...
Become we one with the sea's lost purpose and dream and wish nothing
                                                                                                but that...

O teu carrinho de linha
Rolou pelo chão caído.
Apanhei-o e dei-o e tinha
Só em ti o meu sentido.