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Georges Brassens

Georges Brassens

O malandro arrependido

Ela tinha uma cintura bem torneada
cadeiras cheias
e caçava os machos nos arredores da Madeleine.
pelo seu jeito de me dizer: Meu anjo
te apeteço?
eu vi logo que se tratava de uma debutante.

Ela tinha talento, é verdade, eu o confesso.
Ela tinha gênio,
mas sem técnica um dom não é nada.
Certamente não é tão fácil ser puta como ser freira,
pelo menos é o que se reza em latim na Sorbonne.

Sentindo-me cheio de piedade pela donzela
ensinei-lhe os pequenos truques de sua profissão
e ensinei-lhe os meios para fazer logo fortuna
rebolando o lugar onde as costas se assemelham à lua,

Porque na arte de fazer o trottoir, confesso,
o difícil é saber mexer bem a bunda.
Não se mexe a bunda da mesma maneira
para um farmacêutico, um sacristão, um funcionário.

Rapidamente instruída por meus bons ofícios
ela cedeu-me uma parte de seus benefícios.
Ajudavamo-nos mutuamente, como diz o poeta:
ela era o corpo, naturalmente, e eu a cabeça.

Quando a coitada voltava para casa sem nada
dava-lhe umas porradas mais do que com razão.
Será que ela se lembra ainda do bidê com
que lhe rachei o crânio?

Uma noite, por causa de manobras duvidosas
ela caiu vítima de uma doença vergonhosa,
então, amigavelmente, como uma moça honesta
passou-me a metade de seus micróbios.

Depois de dolorosas injeções de antibióticos
desisti da profissão de cornudo sistemático.
Não adiantou que ela chorasse e gritasse feita louca
e, como eu era apenas um canalha, fiz-me honesto.

Privado logo de minha tutela, minha pobre amiga,
correu a suportar as infâmias do bordel.
Dizem que ela se vendeu até aos tiras!
Que decadência!
Já não existe mais moralidade pública
na nossa França!

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Ezra Pound

Ezra Pound

Canto I

And then went down to the ship,

Set keel to breakers, forth on the godly sea, and

We set up mast and sail on tha swart ship,

Bore sheep aboard her, and our bodies also

Heavy with weeping, so winds from sternward

Bore us out onward with bellying canvas,

Circes this craft, the trim-coifed goddess.

Then sat we amidships, wind jamming the tiller,

Thus with stretched sail, we went over sea till days end.

Sun to his slumber, shadows oer all the ocean,

Came we then to the bounds of deepest water,

To the Kimmerian lands, and peopled cities

Covered with close-webbed mist, unpierced ever

With glitter of sun-rays

Nor with stars stretched, nor looking back from heaven

Swartest night stretched over wretched men there.

The ocean flowing backward, came we then to the place

Aforesaid by Circe.

Here did they rites, Perimedes and Eurylochus,

And drawing sword from my hip

I dug the ell-square pitkin;

Poured we libations unto each the dead,

First mead and then sweet wine, water mixed with white flour.

Then prayed I many a prayer to the sickly deaths-head;

As set in Ithaca, sterile bulls of the best

For sacrifice, heaping the pyre with goods,

A sheep to Tiresias only, black and a bell-sheep.

Dark blood flowed in the fosse,

Souls out of Erebus, cadaverous dead, of brides

Of youths and at the old who had borne much;

Souls stained with recent tears, girls tender,

Men many, mauled with bronze lance heads,

Battle spoil, bearing yet dreory arms,

These many crowded about me; with shouting,

Pallor upon me, cried to my men for more beasts;

Slaughtered the heards, sheep slain of bronze;

Poured ointment, cried to the gods,

To Pluto the strong, and praised Proserpine;

Unsheathed the narrow sword,

I sat to keep off the impetuous impotent dead,

Till I should hear Tiresias.

But first Elpenor came, our friend Elpenor,

Unburied, cast on the wide earth,

Limbs that we left in the house of Circe,

Unwept, unwrapped in sepulchre, since toils urged other.

Pitiful spirit. And I cried in hurried speech:

"Elpenor, how art thou come to this dark coast?

Camst thou afoot, outstripping seamen?"

And he in heavy speech:

"Ill fate and abundant wine. I slept in Circes ingle.

Going down the long ladder unguarded,

I fell against the buttress,

Shattered the nape-nerve, the soul sought Avernus.

But thou, O King, I bid remember me, unwept, unburied,

Heap up mine arms, be tomb by sea-bord, and inscribed:

A man of no fortune, and with a name to come.

And set my oar up, that I swung mid fellows."

And Anticlea came, whom I beat off, and then Tiresias Theban,

Holding his golden wand, knew me, and spoke first:

"A second time? why? man of ill star,

Facing the sunless dead and this joyless region?

Stand from the fosse, leave me my bloody bever

For soothsay."

And I stepped back,

And he stong with the blood, said then: "Odysseus

Shalt return through spiteful Neptune, over dark seas,

Lose all companions." And then Anticlea came.

Lie quiet Divus. I mean, that is Andreas Divus,

In officina Wecheli, 1538, out of Homer.

And he sailed, by Sirens and thence outward and away

And unto Circe.

Venerandam,

In the Creatans phrase, with the golden crown, Aphrodite,

Cypri munimenta sortita est, mirthful, orichalchi, with golden

Girdles and breast bands, thou with dark eyelids

Bearing the golden bough of Argicida. So that:

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Ezra Pound

Ezra Pound

Canto I

And then went down to the ship,

Set keel to breakers, forth on the godly sea, and

We set up mast and sail on tha swart ship,

Bore sheep aboard her, and our bodies also

Heavy with weeping, so winds from sternward

Bore us out onward with bellying canvas,

Circes this craft, the trim-coifed goddess.

Then sat we amidships, wind jamming the tiller,

Thus with stretched sail, we went over sea till days end.

Sun to his slumber, shadows oer all the ocean,

Came we then to the bounds of deepest water,

To the Kimmerian lands, and peopled cities

Covered with close-webbed mist, unpierced ever

With glitter of sun-rays

Nor with stars stretched, nor looking back from heaven

Swartest night stretched over wretched men there.

The ocean flowing backward, came we then to the place

Aforesaid by Circe.

Here did they rites, Perimedes and Eurylochus,

And drawing sword from my hip

I dug the ell-square pitkin;

Poured we libations unto each the dead,

First mead and then sweet wine, water mixed with white flour.

Then prayed I many a prayer to the sickly deaths-head;

As set in Ithaca, sterile bulls of the best

For sacrifice, heaping the pyre with goods,

A sheep to Tiresias only, black and a bell-sheep.

Dark blood flowed in the fosse,

Souls out of Erebus, cadaverous dead, of brides

Of youths and at the old who had borne much;

Souls stained with recent tears, girls tender,

Men many, mauled with bronze lance heads,

Battle spoil, bearing yet dreory arms,

These many crowded about me; with shouting,

Pallor upon me, cried to my men for more beasts;

Slaughtered the heards, sheep slain of bronze;

Poured ointment, cried to the gods,

To Pluto the strong, and praised Proserpine;

Unsheathed the narrow sword,

I sat to keep off the impetuous impotent dead,

Till I should hear Tiresias.

But first Elpenor came, our friend Elpenor,

Unburied, cast on the wide earth,

Limbs that we left in the house of Circe,

Unwept, unwrapped in sepulchre, since toils urged other.

Pitiful spirit. And I cried in hurried speech:

"Elpenor, how art thou come to this dark coast?

Camst thou afoot, outstripping seamen?"

And he in heavy speech:

"Ill fate and abundant wine. I slept in Circes ingle.

Going down the long ladder unguarded,

I fell against the buttress,

Shattered the nape-nerve, the soul sought Avernus.

But thou, O King, I bid remember me, unwept, unburied,

Heap up mine arms, be tomb by sea-bord, and inscribed:

A man of no fortune, and with a name to come.

And set my oar up, that I swung mid fellows."

And Anticlea came, whom I beat off, and then Tiresias Theban,

Holding his golden wand, knew me, and spoke first:

"A second time? why? man of ill star,

Facing the sunless dead and this joyless region?

Stand from the fosse, leave me my bloody bever

For soothsay."

And I stepped back,

And he stong with the blood, said then: "Odysseus

Shalt return through spiteful Neptune, over dark seas,

Lose all companions." And then Anticlea came.

Lie quiet Divus. I mean, that is Andreas Divus,

In officina Wecheli, 1538, out of Homer.

And he sailed, by Sirens and thence outward and away

And unto Circe.

Venerandam,

In the Creatans phrase, with the golden crown, Aphrodite,

Cypri munimenta sortita est, mirthful, orichalchi, with golden

Girdles and breast bands, thou with dark eyelids

Bearing the golden bough of Argicida. So that:

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