Poemas neste tema
Alma
Fernando Pessoa
27 - THE BROKEN WINDOW
THE BROKEN WINDOW
My heart is silent as a look.
There is a home beyond the hills.
My heart is silent as a look.
My home is there, beyond the hills.
I bear my heart like an old curse.
There is no reason for regret.
I bear my heart like an old curse.
Why should we reason or regret?
My heart dwells in me like a ghost.
Beyond the hills my hope lies dead.
My heart dwells with me like a ghost.
Beyond my hope the hills lie dead.
They took away my heart like weeds.
It was not true that I should live.
They took away my heart like weeds.
I could not think it true to live.
Now there are great stains in my heart.
They are like blood-stains on a floor.
Now there are great stains in my heart.
And my heart lies upon the floor.
The room is closed for ever now.
My heart is now buried alive.
My heart is closed for ever now.
The whole room is buried alive.
My heart is silent as a look.
There is a home beyond the hills.
My heart is silent as a look.
My home is there, beyond the hills.
I bear my heart like an old curse.
There is no reason for regret.
I bear my heart like an old curse.
Why should we reason or regret?
My heart dwells in me like a ghost.
Beyond the hills my hope lies dead.
My heart dwells with me like a ghost.
Beyond my hope the hills lie dead.
They took away my heart like weeds.
It was not true that I should live.
They took away my heart like weeds.
I could not think it true to live.
Now there are great stains in my heart.
They are like blood-stains on a floor.
Now there are great stains in my heart.
And my heart lies upon the floor.
The room is closed for ever now.
My heart is now buried alive.
My heart is closed for ever now.
The whole room is buried alive.
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Fernando Pessoa
25 - NOTHING
NOTHING
The angels came and sought her.
They found her by my side.
There where her wings had brought her.
The angels took her away.
She had left their home, their God-bright day
And come by me to abide.
She loved me because love
Loves but imperfect things.
The angels came from above
And bore her away from me.
They bore her away for ever
Between their luminous wings.
'Tis true she was their sister
And near to God as they.
But she loved me because
My heart had not a sister.
They have taken her away
And this is all there was.
The angels came and sought her.
They found her by my side.
There where her wings had brought her.
The angels took her away.
She had left their home, their God-bright day
And come by me to abide.
She loved me because love
Loves but imperfect things.
The angels came from above
And bore her away from me.
They bore her away for ever
Between their luminous wings.
'Tis true she was their sister
And near to God as they.
But she loved me because
My heart had not a sister.
They have taken her away
And this is all there was.
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Bocage
O autor aos seus versos
Chorosos versos meus desentoados,
Sem arte, sem beleza e sem brandura,
Urdidos pela mão da Desventura,
Pela baça Tristeza envenenados:
Vede a luz, não busqueis, desesperados,
No mudo esquecimento a sepultura;
Se os ditosos vos lerem sem ternura,
Ler-vos-ão com ternura os desgraçados:
Não vos inspire, ó versos, cobardia
Da sátira mordaz o furor louco,
Da maldizente voz e tirania:
Desculpa tendes, se valeis tão pouco,
Que não pode cantar com melodia
Um peito de gemer cansado e rouco.
Sem arte, sem beleza e sem brandura,
Urdidos pela mão da Desventura,
Pela baça Tristeza envenenados:
Vede a luz, não busqueis, desesperados,
No mudo esquecimento a sepultura;
Se os ditosos vos lerem sem ternura,
Ler-vos-ão com ternura os desgraçados:
Não vos inspire, ó versos, cobardia
Da sátira mordaz o furor louco,
Da maldizente voz e tirania:
Desculpa tendes, se valeis tão pouco,
Que não pode cantar com melodia
Um peito de gemer cansado e rouco.
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Luís Represas
Namoro II
Ai se eu disser que as tremuras
Me dão nas pernas, e as loucuras
Fazem esquecer-me dos prantos
Pensar em juras
Ai se eu disser que foi feitiço
Que fez na saia dar ventania
Mostrar-me coisas tão belas
Ter fantasia
E sonhar com aquele encontro
Sonhar que não diz que não
Tem um jeito de senhora
E um olhar desmascarado
De céu negro ou céu estrelado, ou Sol
Daquele que a gente sabe.
O seu balanço gingado
Tem os mistérios do mar
E a certeza do caminho certo
que tem a estrela polar.
Não sei se faça convite
E se quebre a tradição
Ou se lhe mande uma carta
Como ouvi numa canção
Só sei que o calor aperta
E ainda não estamos no verão.
Quanto mais o tempo passa
Mais me afasto da razão
E ela insiste no passeio à tarde
Em tom de provocação
Até que num dia feriado
Pra curtir a solidão
Fui consumir as tristezas
Pró baile do Sr. João
Não sei se foi por magia
Ou seria maldição
Dei por mim rodopiando
Bem no meio do salão
Acabei no tal convite
Em jeito de confissão
E a resposta foi tão doce
Que a beijei com emoção
Só que a malta não gritou
Como ouvi numa canção
Me dão nas pernas, e as loucuras
Fazem esquecer-me dos prantos
Pensar em juras
Ai se eu disser que foi feitiço
Que fez na saia dar ventania
Mostrar-me coisas tão belas
Ter fantasia
E sonhar com aquele encontro
Sonhar que não diz que não
Tem um jeito de senhora
E um olhar desmascarado
De céu negro ou céu estrelado, ou Sol
Daquele que a gente sabe.
O seu balanço gingado
Tem os mistérios do mar
E a certeza do caminho certo
que tem a estrela polar.
Não sei se faça convite
E se quebre a tradição
Ou se lhe mande uma carta
Como ouvi numa canção
Só sei que o calor aperta
E ainda não estamos no verão.
Quanto mais o tempo passa
Mais me afasto da razão
E ela insiste no passeio à tarde
Em tom de provocação
Até que num dia feriado
Pra curtir a solidão
Fui consumir as tristezas
Pró baile do Sr. João
Não sei se foi por magia
Ou seria maldição
Dei por mim rodopiando
Bem no meio do salão
Acabei no tal convite
Em jeito de confissão
E a resposta foi tão doce
Que a beijei com emoção
Só que a malta não gritou
Como ouvi numa canção
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Fernando Pessoa
Ship sailing out to sea,
Ship sailing out to sea,
If thou canst not take me,
Take ar least with thy hope
Of other ports my misery
And what in me doth grope.
Ship sailing far away
Let me dream thou canst go
Where I at last may
No longer live with woe
Or with grief stay.
Ship sailing out to Death
Go far, go far
Under the breath
Of the wind, while the star
Of Fate listeneth.
Ship that are not anywhere,
But that I dream,
That is why you art fair.
Sail or sail not... Seem
To sail. That is all. Where?
Ship that I dream and fades
In my dreams distance, go
There are happier glades
Beyond where I know
But this is today and woe.
22/07/1916
If thou canst not take me,
Take ar least with thy hope
Of other ports my misery
And what in me doth grope.
Ship sailing far away
Let me dream thou canst go
Where I at last may
No longer live with woe
Or with grief stay.
Ship sailing out to Death
Go far, go far
Under the breath
Of the wind, while the star
Of Fate listeneth.
Ship that are not anywhere,
But that I dream,
That is why you art fair.
Sail or sail not... Seem
To sail. That is all. Where?
Ship that I dream and fades
In my dreams distance, go
There are happier glades
Beyond where I know
But this is today and woe.
22/07/1916
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Celso Emilio Ferreiro
Tempo de chorar
Hei de chorar sin bágoas duro pranto
polas pombas de luz aferrolladas,
polo esprito vencido baixo a noite
da libertá prostituída.
As espadas penduran silandeiras
coma unha chuvia fría diante os ollos
e teño que chorar na sombra fuxidía
diste pútrido vento
que arromba a lealtá e pon cadeas
no corazón dos homes xenerosos.
Pois que somente os ollos me deixaron
para chorar por iles longos ríos,
hei navegar periplos, descubertas
por tempos que han de vir cheos de escumas,
por onde o día nasce,
alí onde xermola o mundo novo.
Pois que o que chora vive, iremos indo;
indo, chorando, andando,
salvaxe voz que ha de trocarse en ira,
en coitelo de berros e alboradas
para rubir ao cumio dos aldraxes.
E pois que cada tempo ten seu tempo,
iste é o tempo de chorar.
polas pombas de luz aferrolladas,
polo esprito vencido baixo a noite
da libertá prostituída.
As espadas penduran silandeiras
coma unha chuvia fría diante os ollos
e teño que chorar na sombra fuxidía
diste pútrido vento
que arromba a lealtá e pon cadeas
no corazón dos homes xenerosos.
Pois que somente os ollos me deixaron
para chorar por iles longos ríos,
hei navegar periplos, descubertas
por tempos que han de vir cheos de escumas,
por onde o día nasce,
alí onde xermola o mundo novo.
Pois que o que chora vive, iremos indo;
indo, chorando, andando,
salvaxe voz que ha de trocarse en ira,
en coitelo de berros e alboradas
para rubir ao cumio dos aldraxes.
E pois que cada tempo ten seu tempo,
iste é o tempo de chorar.
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Fernando Pessoa
24 - EPISODE
EPISODE
No matter what we dream,
What we dream is true.
No matter what doth seem,
God doth it view
And therefore it is
Real as all this.
No matter what we wish,
We have it elsewhere,
Now, e'er now and rich
Are we here of there.
Inside our felt I
God we self-descry.
Sometimes I think hope
May make this come true,
But I stop, I grope,
And life, fear and woe
Is all that remains.
Wherefore then these pains,
This unrest that thrills
With a possible joy,
All the pain that fills
Our hope till it cloy?
Wherefore this, wherefore
If all is unsure?
O give me a breeze
On a meadow land,
And let that breeze please
Nor I understand.
For all anguish is
A vague wish for bliss.
No matter what we dream,
What we dream is true.
No matter what doth seem,
God doth it view
And therefore it is
Real as all this.
No matter what we wish,
We have it elsewhere,
Now, e'er now and rich
Are we here of there.
Inside our felt I
God we self-descry.
Sometimes I think hope
May make this come true,
But I stop, I grope,
And life, fear and woe
Is all that remains.
Wherefore then these pains,
This unrest that thrills
With a possible joy,
All the pain that fills
Our hope till it cloy?
Wherefore this, wherefore
If all is unsure?
O give me a breeze
On a meadow land,
And let that breeze please
Nor I understand.
For all anguish is
A vague wish for bliss.
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Fernando Pessoa
23 - MEANTIME
FAR AWAY
Far away far away
Far away from here...
There's no running after joy
Or away from fear,
Far away from here.
Her lips were not very red
Nor her hair quite gold.
Her hands played with rings.
She did not let me hold
Her hands playing with gold.
She is somewhere past,
Far away from pain.
Joy can touch her not, nor hope
Enter her domain,
Neither love in vain.
Perhaps at some day beyond
Shadows and light,
She will think of me and make
All me a delight,
Far away from sight.
Far away far away
Far away from here...
There's no running after joy
Or away from fear,
Far away from here.
Her lips were not very red
Nor her hair quite gold.
Her hands played with rings.
She did not let me hold
Her hands playing with gold.
She is somewhere past,
Far away from pain.
Joy can touch her not, nor hope
Enter her domain,
Neither love in vain.
Perhaps at some day beyond
Shadows and light,
She will think of me and make
All me a delight,
Far away from sight.
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Gil Vicente
Assi como foi cousa
Assi como foi cousa muito necessária haver nos caminhos estalagens, pera repouso e refeição dos cansados caminhantes, assi foi cousa conveniente que nesta caminhante vida houvesse uma estalajadeira, pera refeição e descanso das almas que vão caminhantes pera a eternal morada de Deus. Esta estalajadeira das almas é a Madre Santa Igreja, a mesa é o altar, os manjares as insígnias da Paixão. E desta perfiguração trata a obra seguinte.
Figuras: Alma, Anjo Custódio, Igreja, Santo Agostinho, Santo Ambrósio, S. Jerónimo, S. Tomás, Dous Diabos.
Este Auto presente foi feito à muito devota Rainha D.#Leonor e representado ao mui poderoso e nobre Rei Dom#Emanuel, seu irmão, por seu mandado, na cidade de Lisboa, nos Paços da Ribeira, em a noite de Endoenças. Era do Senhor de 1518.
Está posta uma mesa com uma cadeira. Vem a Madre Santa Igreja com seus quatro doutores: S.#Tomás, S.#Jerónimo, Santo#Ambrósio e Santo#Agostinho. E diz Agostinho:
AGOSTINHO Necessário foi, amigos,
que nesta triste carreira
desta vida,
pera os mui p'rigosos p'rigos
dos imigos,
houvesse alguma maneira
de guarida.
Porque a humana transitória
natureza vai cansada
em várias calmas;
nesta carreira da glória
meritória,
foi necessário pousada
pera as almas.
Pousada com mantimentos,
mesa posta em clara luz,
sempre esperando
com dobrados mantimentos
dos tormentos
que o Filho de Deus, na Cruz,
comprou, penando.
Sua morte foi avença,
dando, por dar-nos paraíso,
a sua vida
apreçada, sem detença,
por sentença,
julgada a paga em proviso,
e recebida.
A Sua mortal empresa
foi santa estalajadeira
Igreja Madre:
consolar à sua despesa,
nesta mesa,
qualquer alma caminheira,
com o Padre
e o Anjo Custódio aio.
Alma que lhe é encomendada,
se enfraquece
e lhe vai tomando raio
de desmaio,
se chegando a esta pousada,
se guarece.
Vem o Anjo Custódio, com a Alma, e diz:
ANJO Alma humana, formada
de nenhüa cousa feita,
mui preciosa,
de corrupção separada,
e esmaltada
naquela frágoa perfeita,
gloriosa!
Planta neste vale posta
pera dar celestes flores
olorosas,
e pera serdes tresposta
em a alta costa,
onde se criam primores
mais que rosas!
Planta sois e caminheira,
que ainda que estais, vos is
donde viestes.
Vossa pátria verdadeira
é ser herdei
da glória que conseguis:
andai prestes.
Alma bem-aventurada,
dos anjos tanto querida,
não durmais!
Um ponto não esteis parada,
que a jornada
muito em breve é fenecida,
se atentais.
ALMA Anjo que sois minha guarda,
olhai por minha fraqueza
terreal!
de toda a parte haja resguarda,
que não arda
a minha preciosa riqueza
principal.
Cercai-me sempre ò redor
porque vou mui temerosa
de contenda.
Ó precioso defensor
meu favor!
Vossa espada lumiosa
me defenda!
Tende sempre mão em mim,
porque hei medo de empeçar,
e de cair
ANJO Pera isso sam e a isso vim;
mas enfim,
cumpre-vos de me ajudar
a resistir
Não vos ocupem vaidades,
riquezas, nem seus debates.
Olhai por vós;
que pompas, honras, herdades
e vaidades,
são embates e combates
pera vós.
Vosso livre alvedrio,
isento, forro, poderoso
vos é dado
polo divinal poderio
e senhorio,
que possais fazer glorioso
vosso estado.
Deu-vos livre entendimento,
e vontade libertada
e a memória,
que tenhais em vosso tento
fundamento,
que sois por Ele criada
pera a glória.
E vendo Deus que o metal
em que vos pôs a estilar,
pera merecer,
que era muito fraco e mortal,
e, por tal,
me manda a vos ajudar
e defender.
Andemos a estrada nossa;
olhai: não torneis atrás,
que o imigo
à vossa vida gloriosa
porá grosa,
Não creiais a Satanás,
vosso perigo!
Continuai ter o cuidado
no fim de vossa jornada,
e a memória,
que o espírito atalaiado
do pecado
caminha sem temer nada
pera a Glória.
E nos laços infernais,
e nas redes de tristura
tenebrosas
da carreira, que passais,
não caiais:
siga vossa fermosura
as gloriosas.
Adianta-se o Anjo, e vem o Diabo a ela e diz:
DIABO Tão depressa, ó delicada,
alva pomba, pera onde isso?
Quem vos engana,
e vos leva tão cansada
por estrada,
que somente não sentis
se sois humana?
Não cureis de vos matar
que ainda estais em idade
de crecer
Tempo há i pera folgar
e caminhar
Vivei à vossa vontade
e havei prazer.
Gozai, gozai dos bens da terra,
Procurai por senhorios
e haveres.
Quem da vida vos desterra
à triste serra?
Quem vos fala em desvarios
por prazeres?
Esta vida é descanso,
doce e manso,
não cureis doutro paraíso.
Quem vos põe em vosso siso
outro remanso?
ALMA Não me detenhais aqui,
leixai-me ir que em al me fundo.
DIABO Oh! Descansai neste mundo
que todos fazem assi:
Não são em#balde os haveres.
não são em balde os deleites,
e fortunas;
não são debalde os prazeres
e comeres:
tudo são puros afeites
das criaturas:
Pera os homens se criaram.
Dai folga à vossa passagem
d'hoje a mais:
descansai, pois descansaram
os que passaram
por esta mesma romagem
que levais.
O que a vontade quiser
quanto o corpo desejar,
tudo se faça.
Zombai de quem vos quiser
reprender
querendo-vos marteirar
tão de graça.
Tornara-me, se a vós fora.
Is tão triste, atribulada,
que é tormenta.
Senhora, vós sois senhora
emperadora,
não deveis a ninguém nada.
Sede isenta.
ANJO Oh! andai; quem vos detém?
Como vindes pera a Glória
devagar!
Ó meu Deus! Ó sumo bem!
Já ninguém
não se preza da vitória
em se salvar!
Já cansais, alma preciosa?
Tão asinha desmaiais?
Sede esforçada!
Oh! Como viríeis trigosa
e desejosa,
se vísseis quanto ganhais
nesta jornada!
Caminhemos, caminhemos.
Esforçai ora, Alma santa,
esclarecida!
Adianta-se o Anjo, e torna Satanás:
DIABO Que vaidades e que extremos
tão supremos!
Pera que é essa pressa tanta?
tende vida.
Is muito desautorizada,
descalça, pobre, perdida,
de remate:
Figuras: Alma, Anjo Custódio, Igreja, Santo Agostinho, Santo Ambrósio, S. Jerónimo, S. Tomás, Dous Diabos.
Este Auto presente foi feito à muito devota Rainha D.#Leonor e representado ao mui poderoso e nobre Rei Dom#Emanuel, seu irmão, por seu mandado, na cidade de Lisboa, nos Paços da Ribeira, em a noite de Endoenças. Era do Senhor de 1518.
Está posta uma mesa com uma cadeira. Vem a Madre Santa Igreja com seus quatro doutores: S.#Tomás, S.#Jerónimo, Santo#Ambrósio e Santo#Agostinho. E diz Agostinho:
AGOSTINHO Necessário foi, amigos,
que nesta triste carreira
desta vida,
pera os mui p'rigosos p'rigos
dos imigos,
houvesse alguma maneira
de guarida.
Porque a humana transitória
natureza vai cansada
em várias calmas;
nesta carreira da glória
meritória,
foi necessário pousada
pera as almas.
Pousada com mantimentos,
mesa posta em clara luz,
sempre esperando
com dobrados mantimentos
dos tormentos
que o Filho de Deus, na Cruz,
comprou, penando.
Sua morte foi avença,
dando, por dar-nos paraíso,
a sua vida
apreçada, sem detença,
por sentença,
julgada a paga em proviso,
e recebida.
A Sua mortal empresa
foi santa estalajadeira
Igreja Madre:
consolar à sua despesa,
nesta mesa,
qualquer alma caminheira,
com o Padre
e o Anjo Custódio aio.
Alma que lhe é encomendada,
se enfraquece
e lhe vai tomando raio
de desmaio,
se chegando a esta pousada,
se guarece.
Vem o Anjo Custódio, com a Alma, e diz:
ANJO Alma humana, formada
de nenhüa cousa feita,
mui preciosa,
de corrupção separada,
e esmaltada
naquela frágoa perfeita,
gloriosa!
Planta neste vale posta
pera dar celestes flores
olorosas,
e pera serdes tresposta
em a alta costa,
onde se criam primores
mais que rosas!
Planta sois e caminheira,
que ainda que estais, vos is
donde viestes.
Vossa pátria verdadeira
é ser herdei
da glória que conseguis:
andai prestes.
Alma bem-aventurada,
dos anjos tanto querida,
não durmais!
Um ponto não esteis parada,
que a jornada
muito em breve é fenecida,
se atentais.
ALMA Anjo que sois minha guarda,
olhai por minha fraqueza
terreal!
de toda a parte haja resguarda,
que não arda
a minha preciosa riqueza
principal.
Cercai-me sempre ò redor
porque vou mui temerosa
de contenda.
Ó precioso defensor
meu favor!
Vossa espada lumiosa
me defenda!
Tende sempre mão em mim,
porque hei medo de empeçar,
e de cair
ANJO Pera isso sam e a isso vim;
mas enfim,
cumpre-vos de me ajudar
a resistir
Não vos ocupem vaidades,
riquezas, nem seus debates.
Olhai por vós;
que pompas, honras, herdades
e vaidades,
são embates e combates
pera vós.
Vosso livre alvedrio,
isento, forro, poderoso
vos é dado
polo divinal poderio
e senhorio,
que possais fazer glorioso
vosso estado.
Deu-vos livre entendimento,
e vontade libertada
e a memória,
que tenhais em vosso tento
fundamento,
que sois por Ele criada
pera a glória.
E vendo Deus que o metal
em que vos pôs a estilar,
pera merecer,
que era muito fraco e mortal,
e, por tal,
me manda a vos ajudar
e defender.
Andemos a estrada nossa;
olhai: não torneis atrás,
que o imigo
à vossa vida gloriosa
porá grosa,
Não creiais a Satanás,
vosso perigo!
Continuai ter o cuidado
no fim de vossa jornada,
e a memória,
que o espírito atalaiado
do pecado
caminha sem temer nada
pera a Glória.
E nos laços infernais,
e nas redes de tristura
tenebrosas
da carreira, que passais,
não caiais:
siga vossa fermosura
as gloriosas.
Adianta-se o Anjo, e vem o Diabo a ela e diz:
DIABO Tão depressa, ó delicada,
alva pomba, pera onde isso?
Quem vos engana,
e vos leva tão cansada
por estrada,
que somente não sentis
se sois humana?
Não cureis de vos matar
que ainda estais em idade
de crecer
Tempo há i pera folgar
e caminhar
Vivei à vossa vontade
e havei prazer.
Gozai, gozai dos bens da terra,
Procurai por senhorios
e haveres.
Quem da vida vos desterra
à triste serra?
Quem vos fala em desvarios
por prazeres?
Esta vida é descanso,
doce e manso,
não cureis doutro paraíso.
Quem vos põe em vosso siso
outro remanso?
ALMA Não me detenhais aqui,
leixai-me ir que em al me fundo.
DIABO Oh! Descansai neste mundo
que todos fazem assi:
Não são em#balde os haveres.
não são em balde os deleites,
e fortunas;
não são debalde os prazeres
e comeres:
tudo são puros afeites
das criaturas:
Pera os homens se criaram.
Dai folga à vossa passagem
d'hoje a mais:
descansai, pois descansaram
os que passaram
por esta mesma romagem
que levais.
O que a vontade quiser
quanto o corpo desejar,
tudo se faça.
Zombai de quem vos quiser
reprender
querendo-vos marteirar
tão de graça.
Tornara-me, se a vós fora.
Is tão triste, atribulada,
que é tormenta.
Senhora, vós sois senhora
emperadora,
não deveis a ninguém nada.
Sede isenta.
ANJO Oh! andai; quem vos detém?
Como vindes pera a Glória
devagar!
Ó meu Deus! Ó sumo bem!
Já ninguém
não se preza da vitória
em se salvar!
Já cansais, alma preciosa?
Tão asinha desmaiais?
Sede esforçada!
Oh! Como viríeis trigosa
e desejosa,
se vísseis quanto ganhais
nesta jornada!
Caminhemos, caminhemos.
Esforçai ora, Alma santa,
esclarecida!
Adianta-se o Anjo, e torna Satanás:
DIABO Que vaidades e que extremos
tão supremos!
Pera que é essa pressa tanta?
tende vida.
Is muito desautorizada,
descalça, pobre, perdida,
de remate:
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50 - SONNET
God made my shivering nerves His human lyre,
A lyre whose curves in angels' faces end.
When God doth sing the song's invisible fire
And half-visible wings over it bend.
Fountain of incorruptible desire!
Gold-misted green isle where my bark doth tend!
My soul, rich with electedness, doth tire
My sense o) me with aches with God to blend.
But lo! to live is to be blent with God
Already. We need nought but life, all life.
Pain, evil, hale, lust, treachery, the rod
Of custom, the bypath of dreams, the knife
Grief hideth till it cut her, the delight
Of death – all these we God's willed spite.
A lyre whose curves in angels' faces end.
When God doth sing the song's invisible fire
And half-visible wings over it bend.
Fountain of incorruptible desire!
Gold-misted green isle where my bark doth tend!
My soul, rich with electedness, doth tire
My sense o) me with aches with God to blend.
But lo! to live is to be blent with God
Already. We need nought but life, all life.
Pain, evil, hale, lust, treachery, the rod
Of custom, the bypath of dreams, the knife
Grief hideth till it cut her, the delight
Of death – all these we God's willed spite.
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DOUBT
DOUBT
Tell me, tell me who dreams most –
He who sees the world aright
Or the man in dreaming lost?
What is true? What is’t that seems –
The lie that’s lie that is in dreams?
Who is unto truth less near –
He who sees all truth a shadow
Or he who sees dreams all clear?
He who is a good guest, or he?
Who feels alien at the feast?
Alexander Search, 19/06/1907
Tell me, tell me who dreams most –
He who sees the world aright
Or the man in dreaming lost?
What is true? What is’t that seems –
The lie that’s lie that is in dreams?
Who is unto truth less near –
He who sees all truth a shadow
Or he who sees dreams all clear?
He who is a good guest, or he?
Who feels alien at the feast?
Alexander Search, 19/06/1907
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36 - LA CHERCHEUSE
LA CHERCHEUSE
Pale with the sense of being mortal,
Now dost thou, passing yearning's glades,
Knock with cold hands at the hushed portal
Of the closed palace of the shades.
Thy hands fall and thy wide eyes grope.
Oh, let me kiss thy feet and hope!
Let us not wish to understand,
Bravely despair even of despair,
Cold unfelt hand in cold dead hand,
Let us set out for mere Somewhere,
With bodies by the cold made none,
By nigh to invisibleness done.
Perhaps, thus losing earthly goal,
Our sense of us numbed to innerness,
Sudden we shall find ourselves all Soul,
Hand in hand spirits, waked to bliss,
Having, through some Gate not in space,
Lo! Lapsed to everlasting grace.
Pale with the sense of being mortal,
Now dost thou, passing yearning's glades,
Knock with cold hands at the hushed portal
Of the closed palace of the shades.
Thy hands fall and thy wide eyes grope.
Oh, let me kiss thy feet and hope!
Let us not wish to understand,
Bravely despair even of despair,
Cold unfelt hand in cold dead hand,
Let us set out for mere Somewhere,
With bodies by the cold made none,
By nigh to invisibleness done.
Perhaps, thus losing earthly goal,
Our sense of us numbed to innerness,
Sudden we shall find ourselves all Soul,
Hand in hand spirits, waked to bliss,
Having, through some Gate not in space,
Lo! Lapsed to everlasting grace.
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O fim da jornada
Sob uma luz trêmula e baça,
Se agita, brinca e dança ao léu
A Vida, ululante e devassa.
Assim também, quando no céu
A noite voluptuosa sonha,
Tudo acalmando, mesmo a fome,
Tudo apagando, até a vergonha,
Diz o Poeta que a dor consome:
"Afinal, minha alma e meus ossos
Finalmente imploram por sossego;
O coração feito em destroços,
Procuro em meu leito aconchego
E às vossas cortinas me apego,
Ó treva oferta aos corpos nossos.
Se agita, brinca e dança ao léu
A Vida, ululante e devassa.
Assim também, quando no céu
A noite voluptuosa sonha,
Tudo acalmando, mesmo a fome,
Tudo apagando, até a vergonha,
Diz o Poeta que a dor consome:
"Afinal, minha alma e meus ossos
Finalmente imploram por sossego;
O coração feito em destroços,
Procuro em meu leito aconchego
E às vossas cortinas me apego,
Ó treva oferta aos corpos nossos.
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YANG
Minha música se mostra, avança
serena feito vaca mansa.
Este som, rockn roll
estandarte que tremula ao sol.
Este som, escarlate
pedra que brilha, quilate.
Mas é só uma canção
para aquecer seu coração.
Já conheço essa minha guitarra
arma, bomba, cimitarra.
Me conheço, sem eira nem beira.
Poesia, última trincheira.
Minha música, cor quente
eu quero é pratear sua mente.
Novamente.
Eu quero é pratear sua mente.
serena feito vaca mansa.
Este som, rockn roll
estandarte que tremula ao sol.
Este som, escarlate
pedra que brilha, quilate.
Mas é só uma canção
para aquecer seu coração.
Já conheço essa minha guitarra
arma, bomba, cimitarra.
Me conheço, sem eira nem beira.
Poesia, última trincheira.
Minha música, cor quente
eu quero é pratear sua mente.
Novamente.
Eu quero é pratear sua mente.
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XII - As the lone, frightèd user of a night-road
As the lone, frighted user of a night-road
Suddenly turns round, nothing to detect,
Yet on his fear's sense keepeth still the load
Of that brink-nothing he doth but suspect;
And the cold terror moves to him more near
Of something that from nothing casts a spell,
That, when he moves, to fright more is not there,
And's only visible when invisible:
So I upon the world turn round in thought,
And nothing viewing do no courage take,
But my more terror, from no seen cause got,
To that felt corporate emptiness forsake,
And draw my sense of mystery's horror from
Seeing no mystery's mystery alone.
Suddenly turns round, nothing to detect,
Yet on his fear's sense keepeth still the load
Of that brink-nothing he doth but suspect;
And the cold terror moves to him more near
Of something that from nothing casts a spell,
That, when he moves, to fright more is not there,
And's only visible when invisible:
So I upon the world turn round in thought,
And nothing viewing do no courage take,
But my more terror, from no seen cause got,
To that felt corporate emptiness forsake,
And draw my sense of mystery's horror from
Seeing no mystery's mystery alone.
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XVIII - Indefinite space, which, by co-substance night,
Indefinite space, which, by co-substance night,
In one black mystery two void mysteries blends;
The stray stars, whose innumerable light
Repeats one mystery till conjecture ends;
The stream of time, known by birth-bursting bubbles;
The gulf of silence, empty even of nought;
Thought's high-walled maze, which the outed owner troubles
Because the string's lost and the plan forgot:
When I think on this and that here I stand,
The thinker of these thoughts, emptily wise,
Holding up to my thinking my thing-hand
And looking at it with thought-alien eyes,
The prayer of my wonder looketh past
The universal darkness lone and vast.
In one black mystery two void mysteries blends;
The stray stars, whose innumerable light
Repeats one mystery till conjecture ends;
The stream of time, known by birth-bursting bubbles;
The gulf of silence, empty even of nought;
Thought's high-walled maze, which the outed owner troubles
Because the string's lost and the plan forgot:
When I think on this and that here I stand,
The thinker of these thoughts, emptily wise,
Holding up to my thinking my thing-hand
And looking at it with thought-alien eyes,
The prayer of my wonder looketh past
The universal darkness lone and vast.
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1 - THE MAD FIDDLER
THE MAD FIDDLER
I
THE MAD FIDDLER
THE MAD FIDDLER
Not from the northern road,
Not from the southern way
First his wild music flowed
Into the village that day.
He suddenly was in the lane,
The people came out to hear
He suddenly went, and in vain
Their hopes wished him to appear.
His music strange did fret
Each heart to wish 'twas free.
If was not a melody yet
It was not no melody.
Somewhere far away
Somewhere far outside
Being forced to live, they
Felt this tune replied.
Replied to that longing
All have in their breasts,
To lost sense belonging
To forgotten quests.
The happy wife now knew
That she had married ill,
The glad fond lover grew
Weary of loving still,
The maid and the boy felt glad
That they had dreaming only
The lone hearts that were sad
Felt somewhere less lonely.
In each soul woke the flower
Whose touch leaves earthless dust,
The soul's husband's first hour,
The thing completing us,
The shadow that comes to bless
From kissed depths unexpressed,
The luminous restlessness
That is better than rest.
As he came, he went.
They felt him but half-be.
Then he was quietly blent
With silence and memory.
Sleep left again their laughter,
Their tranced hope ceased to last,
And but a small time after
They knew not he had passed.
Yet when the sorrow of living,
Because life is not willed,
Comes back in dreams' hours, giving
A sense of life being chilled,
Suddenly each remembers –
It glows like a coming moon
On where their dream-life embers –
The mad fiddlers tune.
I
THE MAD FIDDLER
THE MAD FIDDLER
Not from the northern road,
Not from the southern way
First his wild music flowed
Into the village that day.
He suddenly was in the lane,
The people came out to hear
He suddenly went, and in vain
Their hopes wished him to appear.
His music strange did fret
Each heart to wish 'twas free.
If was not a melody yet
It was not no melody.
Somewhere far away
Somewhere far outside
Being forced to live, they
Felt this tune replied.
Replied to that longing
All have in their breasts,
To lost sense belonging
To forgotten quests.
The happy wife now knew
That she had married ill,
The glad fond lover grew
Weary of loving still,
The maid and the boy felt glad
That they had dreaming only
The lone hearts that were sad
Felt somewhere less lonely.
In each soul woke the flower
Whose touch leaves earthless dust,
The soul's husband's first hour,
The thing completing us,
The shadow that comes to bless
From kissed depths unexpressed,
The luminous restlessness
That is better than rest.
As he came, he went.
They felt him but half-be.
Then he was quietly blent
With silence and memory.
Sleep left again their laughter,
Their tranced hope ceased to last,
And but a small time after
They knew not he had passed.
Yet when the sorrow of living,
Because life is not willed,
Comes back in dreams' hours, giving
A sense of life being chilled,
Suddenly each remembers –
It glows like a coming moon
On where their dream-life embers –
The mad fiddlers tune.
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VII - Thy words are torture to me, that scarce grieve thee —
Thy words are torture to me, that scarce grieve thee –
That entire death shall null my entire thought;
And I feel torture, not that I believe thee,
But that I cannot disbelieve thee not.
Shall that of me that now contains the stars
Be by the very contained stars survived?
Thus were Fate all unjust. Yet what truth bars
An all unjust Fate's truth from being believed?
Conjecture cannot fit to the seen world
A garment of its thought untorn or covering,
Or with its stuffed garb forge an otherworld
Without itself its dead deceit discovering;
So, all being possible, an idle thought may
Less idle thoughts, self-known no truer, dismay.
That entire death shall null my entire thought;
And I feel torture, not that I believe thee,
But that I cannot disbelieve thee not.
Shall that of me that now contains the stars
Be by the very contained stars survived?
Thus were Fate all unjust. Yet what truth bars
An all unjust Fate's truth from being believed?
Conjecture cannot fit to the seen world
A garment of its thought untorn or covering,
Or with its stuffed garb forge an otherworld
Without itself its dead deceit discovering;
So, all being possible, an idle thought may
Less idle thoughts, self-known no truer, dismay.
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II - If that apparent part of life's delight
If that apparent part of life's delight
Our tingled flesh-sense circumscribes were seen
By aught save reflex and co-carnal sight,
Joy, flesh and life might prove but a gross screen.
Haply Truth's body is no eyable being,
Appearance even as appearance lies,
Haply our close, dark, vague, warm sense of seeing
Is the choked vision of blindfolded eyes.
Where from what comes to thought's sense of life? Nought.
All is either the irrational world we see
Or some aught-else whose being-unknown doth rot
Its use for our thought's use. Whence taketh me
A qualm-like ache of life, a body-deep
Soul-hate of what we seek and what we, weep.
Our tingled flesh-sense circumscribes were seen
By aught save reflex and co-carnal sight,
Joy, flesh and life might prove but a gross screen.
Haply Truth's body is no eyable being,
Appearance even as appearance lies,
Haply our close, dark, vague, warm sense of seeing
Is the choked vision of blindfolded eyes.
Where from what comes to thought's sense of life? Nought.
All is either the irrational world we see
Or some aught-else whose being-unknown doth rot
Its use for our thought's use. Whence taketh me
A qualm-like ache of life, a body-deep
Soul-hate of what we seek and what we, weep.
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8 - ELSEWHERE
ELSEWHERE
Let us away my child,
Away to Elsewhere.
There days are ever mild
And fields are ever fair.
The moon that shines on whom
There wanders happy and free
Hath woven its light and gloom
Of immortality.
Seeing things there is young,
Told tales sweet as untold,
There real dream-songs are sung
By lips we may behold.
Time there's a moment's bliss,
Life a being-slaked thirst,
Love like that in a kiss
When that kiss is the first.
We need no boat, my child,
But our hopes while still fair
No rowers but fancies wild.
O let me seek Elsewhere!
Let us away my child,
Away to Elsewhere.
There days are ever mild
And fields are ever fair.
The moon that shines on whom
There wanders happy and free
Hath woven its light and gloom
Of immortality.
Seeing things there is young,
Told tales sweet as untold,
There real dream-songs are sung
By lips we may behold.
Time there's a moment's bliss,
Life a being-slaked thirst,
Love like that in a kiss
When that kiss is the first.
We need no boat, my child,
But our hopes while still fair
No rowers but fancies wild.
O let me seek Elsewhere!
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IX - Oh to be idle loving idleness!
Oh to be idle loving idleness!
But I am idle all in hate of me;
Ever in action's dream, in the false stress
Of purposed action never act to be.
Like a fierce beast self-penned in a bait-lair,
My will to act binds with excess my action,
Not-acting coils the thought with raged despair,
And acting rage doth paint despair distraction.
Like someone sinking in a treacherous sand,
Each gesture to deliver sinks the more;
The struggle avails not, and to raise no hand,
Though but more slowly useless, we've no power.
Hence live I the dead life each day doth bring,
Repurposed for next day's repurposing.
But I am idle all in hate of me;
Ever in action's dream, in the false stress
Of purposed action never act to be.
Like a fierce beast self-penned in a bait-lair,
My will to act binds with excess my action,
Not-acting coils the thought with raged despair,
And acting rage doth paint despair distraction.
Like someone sinking in a treacherous sand,
Each gesture to deliver sinks the more;
The struggle avails not, and to raise no hand,
Though but more slowly useless, we've no power.
Hence live I the dead life each day doth bring,
Repurposed for next day's repurposing.
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XVI - No matter now or past or future.
No matter now or past or future. Be
Lovers' age in your glee!
Give all your thoughts to this great muscled day
That like a courser tears
The bit of Time, to make night come and say
The maiden mount now her first rider bears!
Flesh pinched, flesh bit, flesh sucked, flesh girt around,
Flesh crushed and ground,
These things inflame your thoughts and make ye dim
In what ye say or seem!
Rage out in naked glances till ye fright
Your ague of delight,
In glances seeming clothes and thoughts to hate
That fleshes separate;
Stretch out your limbs to the warm day outside,
To feel it while it bide!
For the strong sun, the hot ground, the green grass,
Each far lake's dazzling glass,
And each one's flushed thought of the night to be
Are all one joy-hot unity.
Lovers' age in your glee!
Give all your thoughts to this great muscled day
That like a courser tears
The bit of Time, to make night come and say
The maiden mount now her first rider bears!
Flesh pinched, flesh bit, flesh sucked, flesh girt around,
Flesh crushed and ground,
These things inflame your thoughts and make ye dim
In what ye say or seem!
Rage out in naked glances till ye fright
Your ague of delight,
In glances seeming clothes and thoughts to hate
That fleshes separate;
Stretch out your limbs to the warm day outside,
To feel it while it bide!
For the strong sun, the hot ground, the green grass,
Each far lake's dazzling glass,
And each one's flushed thought of the night to be
Are all one joy-hot unity.
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XXXII - When I have sense of what to sense appears,
When I have sense of what to sense appears,
Sense is sense ere 'tis mine or mine in me is.
When I hear, Hearing, ere I do hear, hears.
When I see, before me abstract Seeing sees.
I am part Soul part I in all I touch –
Soul by that part I hold in common with all,
And I the spoiled part, that doth make sense such
As I can err by it and my sense mine call.
The rest is wondering what these thoughts may mean,
That come to explain and suddenly are gone,
Like messengers that mock the message' mien,
Explaining all but the explanation;
As if we a ciphered letter's cipher hit
And find it in an unknown language writ.
Sense is sense ere 'tis mine or mine in me is.
When I hear, Hearing, ere I do hear, hears.
When I see, before me abstract Seeing sees.
I am part Soul part I in all I touch –
Soul by that part I hold in common with all,
And I the spoiled part, that doth make sense such
As I can err by it and my sense mine call.
The rest is wondering what these thoughts may mean,
That come to explain and suddenly are gone,
Like messengers that mock the message' mien,
Explaining all but the explanation;
As if we a ciphered letter's cipher hit
And find it in an unknown language writ.
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XIII - When I should be asleep to mine own voice
When I should be asleep to mine own voice
In telling thee how much thy love's my dream,
I find me listening to myself, the noise
Of my words othered in my hearing them.
Yet wonder not: this is the poet's soul.
I could not tell thee well of how I love,
Loved I not less by knowing it, were all
My self my love and no thought love to prove.
What consciousness makes more by consciousness,
It makes less, for it makes it less itself.
My sense of love could not my love rich-dress
Did it not for it spend love's own love-pelf.
Poet's love's this (as in these words I prove thee):
I love my love for thee more than I love thee.
In telling thee how much thy love's my dream,
I find me listening to myself, the noise
Of my words othered in my hearing them.
Yet wonder not: this is the poet's soul.
I could not tell thee well of how I love,
Loved I not less by knowing it, were all
My self my love and no thought love to prove.
What consciousness makes more by consciousness,
It makes less, for it makes it less itself.
My sense of love could not my love rich-dress
Did it not for it spend love's own love-pelf.
Poet's love's this (as in these words I prove thee):
I love my love for thee more than I love thee.
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