Outros

O heavy day that comes with so much glee
Out of the East.
It turquoises the silence of the sea
And makes a feast
Of blueness of the waves that shiver and flee.

O heavy day because my love hath gone
And taken away
His white arms and his lips like poppies grown
Athwart that day
When I first saw him and felt my heart moan.

My hands are stretched towards his coming, and
He cometh not.
He seems a woman and his gesturing hand
Too oft bath wrought
Dreams of strange vice with him through my heart's sand.

He is scarce more than a child. His body is white,
His arms lie bare
Across my neck and cling like a delight
Of which my share
Is painful like a far sail in the night.

Oh, love, return! All this is dreams of thee
Return and wake
My trembling frame to that vile misery
That love doth take
For his body when the lovers are such as we.

Golden‑haired boy that cannot love me so
As I love him,
Look, life is short, our lips fade... Ay, I know
I am ugly and dim
But love a little or seem... Love me and go
Yet love ere going, and then let me dream
On what was real while life fades and goes slow...

Se te queres despedir
Não te despidas de mim,
Que eu não posso consentir
Que tu me trates assim.

«À tua porta está lama.
Meu amor, quem na faria?»
É assim a velha cantiga
Que como tu principia.

Andei sozinho na praia
Andei na praia a pensar
No jeito da tua saia
Quando lá estiveste a andar.

Onda que vens e que vais
Mar que vais e depois vens,
Já não sei se tu me atrais,
E, se me atrais, se me tens.

Tell me again the music of that tale
Thy nurse wit sang so oft by my soul's bed,
Whose words and persons from my memory fade,
But in the melody remembered.

Thou mightst shift all the pawns of that told game
And, so the music made it far off be,
I shall still hear the tale as if the same,
Far bark on seas of the same melody.

What fairy castles and closed beauties lie
On moonlight of not‑life away from where
Loss is, truth kills, what charms must be put by,
And but the still‑to‑be keeps fresh & fair.

What matter the song, so by it the soul weeps
Lost kinship with its antenatal sleeps?

Tell me again the music of that tale
Thy nurse wit sang so oft by my soul's bed,
Whose words and persons from my memory fade,
But in the melody remembered.

Thou mightst shift all the pawns of that told game
And, so the music made it far off be,
I shall still hear the tale as if the same,
Far bark on seas of the same melody.

What fairy castles and closed beauties lie
On moonlight of not‑life away from where
Loss is, truth kills, what charms must be put by,
And but the still‑to‑be keeps fresh & fair.

What matter the song, so by it the soul weeps
Lost kinship with its antenatal sleeps?

Dá-me um sorriso daqueles
Que te não servem de nada
Como se dá às crianças
Uma caixa esvaziada.

Chamam-te boa, e o sentido
Não é bem o que eu supunha.
Boa não é apelido:
É, quando muito, alcunha.

Uma boneca de trapos
Não se parte se cair.
Fizeste-me a alma em farrapos...
Bem: não se pode partir.

Tocam sinos a rebate
E levantaste-te logo.
Teu coração só não bate
Por a quem puseste fogo.

All my heart weeps for
Is a cottage left
By some one before
Time into space crept,
A small cottage left
Near a silent shore.

There the constant waves
Murmur like vain rest.
There the soft raves
Like a soul possessed
Of rest that not saves.

There the shore‑winds breathe
Possibilities
Of less cares than wreathe
Round our lives their cries
From up and beneath.

Where that cottage is
Rests with wishing it.
Is therewhere is bliss?
No, nor does bliss fit
Into that strange place.

Why desire it then?
Ah, it's different
From the homes of men.
There perhaps are blent
Dreams and what we ken.

There at least alone,
Alone by the sea,
We shall cease to moan...
To moan need not be
Where we are alone...

These are words. Let sleep
Close our eyes to find
That small cottage, deep
In Farness. We are blind
And life is to weep.

Compreender um ao outro
É um jogo complicado,
Pois quem engana não sabe
Se não estava enganado.

Todas as horas faço gaffes de civilidade e etiqueta
(A vida social é complexa para a minha fraqueza de nervos)
Mas nunca existiu quem só tivesse vivido em alma
Numa eterna luta de Janus.

Arre, a humanidade é uma coisa muito complexa...
Tenho-a observado com os olhos e os
nervos, e ainda não percebi.
(Compreender é um navio ao longe)

Toda a gente que tenho conhecido

Estou farto de semi-deuses!
Onde é que há gente no mundo?

Não tenho um amigo, um conhecido, em quem batessem
Ninguém que eu conheça perdeu o amor de uma mulher.
Tenho feito muitas coisas más, muitas coisas reles, muitas infâmias.
Tenho sido cobarde, revoltante, sujo.
Não encontro ninguém assim.
Todos têm sido príncipes, os que têm andado comigo

Thou needst not scorn me. All my praise of thee
Though't be of that which opens men's desire
(Being of thy beauty), from desire is free.
My flame upon thine altars has no fire.

Beauty should beauty mate, lest by addition
It do subtraction suffer. So I name
Thy true mate beautiful. Thus my perdition
Myself desire and mine own love disclaim.

That this renouncement of the very thought
Of thy possible love, were't such or no,
Gives pain, is sure; yet the pain given does not
From the renouncement, but its reason, flow.

The gods that fated me not beautiful
Fated this just renouncement possible.

Floriu a roseira toda
Com as rosas de trepar...
Tua cabeça anda à roda
Mas sabes-te equilibrar.

Do not think of me. Love me.
That shall somehow suffice.
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Let us be purposeless
Sedately and for a task.
We can be nothing this
Dashes not with the mask
Of being anything...
Be we eer on the wing...

And towards nowhere flying,
Maybe we shall obtain
A thought of what our dying
May steal from life and pain...

Trazes uma cruz no peito.
Não sei se é por devoção.
Antes tivesse o jeito
De ter lá um coração.

O guardanapo dobrado
Quer dizer que se não volta.
Tenho o coração atado:
Vê se a tua mão mo solta.

II

Dói viver, nada sou que valha ser.
Tardo-me porque penso e tudo rui.
Tento saber, porque tentar é ser.
Longe de isto ser tudo, tudo flui.

Mágoa que, indiferente, faz viver.
Névoa que, diferente, em tudo influi.
O exílio nada do que foi sequer
Ilude, fixa, dá, faz ou possui.

Assim, nocturna, a áreas indecisas,
O prelúdio perdido traz à mente
O que das ilhas mortas foi só brisas,

E o que a memória análoga dedica
Ao sonho, e onde, lua na corrente,
Não passa o sonho e a água inútil fica.

Whene'er thou dost undo
Thy dark, strange hair before the wind
And the wind takes it up and makes it woo
Tumult and violence in the way it sweeps
Along the air, mingling, unmingling, undefined
In the snake‑like madness it keeps.

Then I do know
That somewhere whence dreams come
And passions go,
Somewhere in that world contrary to this,
Yet landscaped, peopled as this is,
In a great southern sea
There is a storm and a hurled wreck
On rising rocks that cannot reck
For human misery.

The two things are but one.
Thy floating hair is that great ship undone
In a tossed, turbulent, dashed ocean.
Neither precedeth nor doth cause the other
Nor are the two as brother and brother,
But absolutely one, samely the same,
They have somehow an equal name
Where speech is of the essence of what is.

A real sight, like God's, should see the kiss
Of the wind through thy hair and the far storm
One thing, - ­yet two things because we see two
When we conceive them one, the double form
Coming to oneness in what we construe.

Therefore I grieve when thou letst thy hair take
The wind upon its long, thin, changing fingers,
For that sight of me that translates that to
The sterner meaning in what world I know
Only through what in me is not here awake, -
That sight of that mad wreck visibly lingers
And does in my imagination ache.

Alas! all things are linked, and we know not
Half the contents of our each casual thought.
We never see save one little dreamed bit
Of each feeling we have; we pass through it
Like rapid travellers that scarce can see
What they pass by and what they see see erringly.

What is the meaning of my writing this?
Nothing, save that this is,
I know not why, something I know and must
Utter, the purpose of it being with
That secret Being that made my body of dust
Bear my soul's ignored presence, and that breath
Of life that survives my each moment's death.

Even as great Macchiavel, shut fast from all,
His court dress donned to visit his invention,
So I, when the commanding Muse doth call,
Give to the wide world sleep and inattention.

I close the door to all the man in me,
To friend, relation, countryman and self,
Closeting myself with eternity
And both the good and ill of me do shelf.

I strive to please Athena, not mankind.
No time shall call me out, or place seduce,
Nor ache to please, nor fear to offend me blind
To the great passion for true beauty's use.

Mine own self I displease, if it so fit
The claiming tyranny and press of wit.

Even as great Macchiavel, shut fast from all,
His court dress donned to visit his invention,
So I, when the commanding Muse doth call,
Give to the wide world sleep and inattention.

I close the door to all the man in me,
To friend, relation, countryman and self,
Closeting myself with eternity
And both the good and ill of me do shelf.

I strive to please Athena, not mankind.
No time shall call me out, or place seduce,
Nor ache to please, nor fear to offend me blind
To the great passion for true beauty's use.

Mine own self I displease, if it so fit
The claiming tyranny and press of wit.

Even as great Macchiavel, shut fast from all,
His court dress donned to visit his invention,
So I, when the commanding Muse doth call,
Give to the wide world sleep and inattention.

I close the door to all the man in me,
To friend, relation, countryman and self,
Closeting myself with eternity
And both the good and ill of me do shelf.

I strive to please Athena, not mankind.
No time shall call me out, or place seduce,
Nor ache to please, nor fear to offend me blind
To the great passion for true beauty's use.

Mine own self I displease, if it so fit
The claiming tyranny and press of wit.