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Fernando Pessoa

Fernando Pessoa

EPITAPH - Here lies who thought himself the best

EPITAPH

Here lies who thought himself the best
Of poet’s in the world’s extend;
In life he had not joy nor rest.

He filled with madness many a song,
And at whatever age he died
Thus many days he lived too long.

He lived im powerless egotism,
His soul tumultuous and disordered
By thought and feeling’s endless schism.

In everything he had a foe
And without courage bore his part
In life’s interminable woe.

He was a slave to grief and fear
And incoherent thoughts he had
And wishes unto madness near.

Those whom he loved, by arts of ill
He treated worse than foes; but he
His own worst enemy was still.

He of himself did ever sing,
Incapable of modesty,
Lock’d in his wild imagining.

Useless was all his toiless trouble
Empty of sense his fears and pains
And many of them were ignoble.

Vile thus and worthless his distress;
His words, though bitterer far than hate,
His bitter soul could not express.
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Let not a healthy mind pollute
His grave, but fitly there will pass
The traitor and the prostitute;

The drunkard and the wencher there
May pass, but quick, lest they should ponder,
Perchance, that pleasure is but air.

Each weak and execrable mind
Which plagued man with its rotteness
Its conscious master here will find.

Conscious, for in him he could tell
Madness and ill were what they were,
But neither did he will to quell.

Pass by therefore ye who can weep,
Let rotteness work in neglect,
While the rough winds the dead leaves sweep.

His slumbering brother to the sod
Not even in imagining
Disturb not with the name of God.

But let him lie and peace for ever
Far from the eyes and mouth of men
And from what him from them did sever.

He was a thing that God had wrought
And to the sin of having lived
He joined the crime of having thought.

Alexander Search, Julho de 1907
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Fernando Pessoa

Fernando Pessoa

DESOLATION

DESOLATION

Here where the rugged hills
Their gnarled loose bases grip into the earth,
And nothing save the sorrow of our birth
From seeing the seeing spirit fills,
Here where, among the grim, deserted stones,
Na hope of green for desertness atones,
Or water's sound
Make sweet the solitude around,
Here may I lay
This day
My head
Upon the ground and say
No better bed
Can he who has but himself for life have,
Nor better grave.

The sterile part
Of love, feeling, was given me.
Fom the humanness even of a broken heart
God set me free.
Out of my destiny no flower was made
To grow.
All in me fated was not even to fade
Or e'en a vain and transient glory show.

The very need
For love or joy or the human part of thought,
Pride, and the abstract greed
For truth, that lifts the heart and doth allot
A value of self and world to consciousness –
Even this bliss
My empty heart has not.

O weary born,
Faded begun.
Gone from unseen shores to seen shores forlorn,
Sent out of sun-gone unto unborn sun!
The singer of his wish
To sing no song,
The poor spendthrift rich
With knowing not fo, what to long.
The Hyperion dispossessed
Ere birth
Of that sun-mansion set out beyond rest
Above the wide-lit stretches of the earth.

The uncrowned king
That never saw the land
Of which he oft doth sing,
And whose lost path he cannot understand
Nor know to dream steps him there to bring.
The priest deferred
From the inner shrine.
The thought but never uttered word,
The fore spilt wine,
The anxiousness for hope, the cold divine
Of anguish that no anguish human is,
The solitary pine
On the cold hill of consciousness.

The hour
The lord
Returns
Back to the polluted bower,
Home to the intransitable ford,
Again to the ice-padlocked burns:
The shadow
Fixedly thrown
On the green meadow
By a tree overgrown
With leaves, but fruitless, flowerless and lone.

The last
Sight of a shore
Which the unhalting ship doth pass
And where it never shall pass more;
But where the heart-dim sailor knows
Homes are happy because not his,
Lips warm because never his lips to kiss,
Gardens fair because therein grows
The unfound rose,
Hours soft, fate fresh, life a real fair elf
Because somewhere outside himself.


16/10/1916
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Manuel Alegre

Manuel Alegre

Debaixo das Oliveiras

Este foi o mês em que cantei
dentro de minha casa
debaixo
das oliveiras.

O mês em que a brisa me pôs nas mãos
uma harpa de folhas
e a terra me emprestou
sua flauta e sua lua.
Maré viva. Meu sangue atravessado
por um cometa visível a olho nu
tangido por satélites e aves de arribação
navegado por peixes desconhecidos.

Este foi o mês em que cantei
como quem morre e ressuscita
no terceiro dia
de cada sílaba.

O mês em que subi a uma colina
dentro de minha casa
olhei a terra e o mar
depois cantei
como quem faz com duas pedras
o primeiro lume. Palavras
e pedras. Palavras e lume
de uma vida.

Este foi o mês em que fui a um lugar santo
dentro de minha casa.
O mês em que saí dos campos
e me banhei no rio como quem se baptiza
e cantei debaixo das oliveiras
as mãos cheias de terra. Palavras
e terra
de uma vida.

Este foi o mês em que cantei
como quem espelha ao vento suas cinzas
e cresce de seu próprio adubo
carregado de folhas. Palavras
e folhas
de uma vida.

O mês em que a mulher
tocou meus ombros com sua graça
e me deu a beber
a água pura do seu poço.
Este foi o mês em que o filho
derramou dentro de mim
o orvalho e o sol
de sua manhã.

O mês em que cantei
como quem de si se perde e reencontra
nas coisas novamente nomeadas.

Este foi o mês em que atravessei montanhas
e cheguei a um lugar onde as palavras
escorriam leite e mel.
MILAGRE MILAGRE gritaram dentro de mim
as aves todas da floresta.

Então reparei que era o lugar do poema
o lugar santo onde cantei
entre mulher e o filho
como quem dá graças.

Este foi o mês em que cantei
dentro de minha casa
debaixo
das oliveiras.

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