Alma

Cabeça de ouro mortiço
Com olhos de azul do céu,
Quem te ensinou o feitiço
De me fazer não ser eu?

Fierce dreams of something else!
        Frenzy to go away
(O wave in me that swells!)
        From life, where life must stay -
        Life ever at to‑day!

Some other place and thing!
        Not a life! not mine so!
O to be a wind, a wing.
A bark me there to bring!

        Whither? If I could know,
        I would not wish to go.

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

Não sei que flores te dar
Para os dias da semana.
Tens tanta sombra no olhar
Que o teu olhar sempre engana.

Concentra-te, e serás sereno e forte;
Mas concentra-te fora de ti mesmo.
Não sê mais para ti que o pedestal
No qual ergas a estátua do teu ser.
Tudo mais empobrece, porque é pobre.

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

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.

When the lamp is broken and the shaking
        Light is for ever fled,
There is more memory of its breaking
        Than of the light it shed.
This may common be, but 'tis not glad;
It means many things and all are sad.

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!

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

I know not whether my mind is broken
Nor do I know if my mind is ill;
I know not if love is but the last token
Of God to me, or a word unspoken
        In a chaos of will.

My thoughts are such as the mad must have
        And dead things guard my soul
Grotesque and odd are the shapes that rule
In my brain as worms in a grave

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...

Traze-me um copo com água
E a maneira de o trazer.
Quero ter a minha mágoa
Sem mostrar que a estou a ter.

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

Sometimes in the middle of life a change
Suddenly comes like an alienation
A sense of voidness enormous, strange
And a void, deep desolation.

A sense of being left alone
And more and more than abandoned
(…)
'Tis a sense half as if I were dead.

Loura dos olhos dormentes,
Que são azuis e amarelos,
Se as minhas mãos fossem pentes,
Penteavam-te os cabelos.

Puseste a mantilha negra
Que hás-de tirar ao voltar.
A que me puseste na alma
Não tiras. Mas deixa-a estar!

O sino dobra a finados.
Faz tanta pena a dobrar!
Não é pelos teus pecados
Que estão vivos a saltar.

The day is sad as I am sad,
But that no moment can abate
That pang that is all I have had
To take with me and see and feel
While life goes by like a mere wheel.

No. Deeper things than skies and plains
Are dark and lower'd o'er in me.
My sorrows are more empty pains
Than of which plains landscapes can symbols be.
And my own [?] weight of life and self
Resembles nothing but itself.

Moreninha, moreninha,
Com olhos pretos a rir.
Sei que nunca serás minha,
Mas quero ver-te sorrir.

Lá vem o homem da capa
Que ninguém sabe quem é...
Se o lenço os olhos te tapa
Vejo os teus olhos por fé.

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

Ao dobrar o guardanapo
Para o meteres na argola
Fizeste-me conhecer
Como um coração se enrola.

Pobre Espanha, já sem ter
Alma onde ser!
Fragmento sobrevivente
De ti mesma, ente
De te perder!

Relembremos na hora
Em que em ti chora
O que não ouves em ti,
Aquele que foi
O herói em si
Do que em ti se perdeu de herói.

Fidalgo que toda a alma deu
Ao Rei e à Grei que o perdeu
No incêndio da hora estranha,
Saibamo-lo, alheios mas homens, chorar,
Com quem a alma da fidalguia da Espanha
Foi a enterrar.