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Alberto de Oliveira

Alberto de Oliveira

Terceiro Canto

I

Embala-me, balanço da mangueira,
Embala-me, que enquanto vou contigo,
Contigo venho, o meu pesar esqueço.
Rompe a luz da manhã rosada e linda,
Tudo desperta. E essa por quem padeço,
Lânguida e preguiçosa,
Entre brancos lençóis repousa ainda.
Embala-me, pendente da mangueira,
Na tensa corda, meu balanço amigo!
Em claro a noite inteira
Passei, pensando nela. Ah! que formosa
Estava ontem à tarde no mirante,
Um livro ao colo, às tranças uma rosa,
E o olhar perdido na amplidão distante!
Pensava... Em quem pensava?
Se fosse em mim... Como formosa estava!
Oh! não pausado e manso,
Mas aos arrancos, estirado voa,
Leva-me, meu balanço!

II

Assim cismando, à toa,
Olhos voltados já para a querida
Visão de Laura, já para o céu claro,
Para o campo e arredores,
A manhã passo. Sobre a serra erguida
Em frente nasce e, coroando-a, brilha
O sol. Loureja o ipê com as áureas flores.
Late nos grotões fundos, indo ao faro
Da caça, ao buzinar dos caçadores,
Da fazenda a matilha.
E no ar que sopra dos capões escuros,
Sente-se, de mistura a essências finas
E ao cheiro das resinas,
Um sabor acre de cajás maduros.

III

Cajás! Não é que lembra à Laura um dia
(Que dia claro! esplende o mato e cheira!)
Chamar-me para em sua companhia
Saboreá-los sob a cajazeira!

— Vamos sós? perguntei-lhe. E a feiticeira:
— Então! tens medo de ir comigo? — E ria.
Compõe as tranças, salta-me ligeira
Ao braço, o braço no meu braço enfia.

— Uma carreira! — Uma carreira! — Aposto!
A um sinal breve dado de partida,
Corremos. Zune o vento em nosso rosto.

Mas eu me deixo atrás ficar, correndo,
Pois mais vale que a aposta da corrida
Ver-lhe as saias a voar, como vou vendo.

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Publicado no livro Poesias: segunda série. Poema integrante da série Alma em Flor, 1900.

In: OLIVEIRA, Alberto de. Poesias completas. Ed. crít. Marco Aurélio Mello Reis. Rio de Janeiro: Núcleo Ed. da UERJ, 1978. v.2. (Fluminense)

NOTA: Alma em Flor é composto de 3 cantos. O terceiro tem 17 parte
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Edgar Allan Poe

Edgar Allan Poe

To Helen [Sarah Helen Whitman

I saw thee once— once only — years ago:
I must not say how many — but not many.
It was a July midnight; and from out
A full-orbed moon, that, like thine own soul, soaring,
Sought a precipitate pathway up through heaven,
There fell a silvery-silken veil of light,
With quietude, and sultriness, and slumber,
Upon the upturned faces of a thousand
Roses that grew in an enchanted garden,
Where no wind dared to stir, unless on tiptoe —
Fell on the upturn'd faces of these roses
That gave out, in return for the love-light,
Their odorous souls in an ecstatic death —
Fell on the upturn'd faces of these roses
That smiled and died in this parterre, enchanted
By thee, and by the poetry of thy presence.

Clad all in white, upon a violet bank
I saw thee half reclining; while the moon
Fell on the upturn'd faces of the roses,
And on thine own, upturn'd— alas, in sorrow!

Was it not Fate, that, on this July midnight—
Was it not Fate, (whose name is also Sorrow,)
That bade me pause before that garden-gate,
To breathe the incense of those slumbering roses?
No footstep stirred: the hated world an slept,
Save only thee and me. (Oh, Heaven!— oh, God!
How my heart beats in coupling those two words!)
Save only thee and me. I paused— I looked—
And in an instant all things disappeared.
(Ah, bear in mind this garden was enchanted!)

The pearly lustre of the moon went out:
The mossy banks and the meandering paths,
The happy flowers and the repining trees,
Were seen no more: the very roses' odors
Died in the arms of the adoring airs.
All— all expired save thee— save less than thou:
Save only the divine light in thine eyes—
Save but the soul in thine uplifted eyes.
I saw but them— they were the world to me!
I saw but them— saw only them for hours,
Saw only them until the moon went down.
What wild heart-histories seemed to he enwritten

Upon those crystalline, celestial spheres!
How dark a woe, yet how sublime a hope!
How silently serene a sea of pride!
How daring an ambition; yet how deep—
How fathomless a capacity for love!

But now, at length, dear Dian sank from sight,
Into a western couch of thunder-cloud;
And thou, a ghost, amid the entombing trees
Didst glide away. Only thine eyes remained;
They would not go— they never yet have gone;
Lighting my lonely pathway home that night,
They have not left me (as my hopes have) since;
They follow me— they lead me through the years.
They are my ministers — yet I their slave.
Their office is to illumine and enkindle —
My duty, to be saved by their bright light,
And purified in their electric fire,
And sanctified in their elysian fire.
They fill my soul with Beauty (which is Hope),
And are far up in Heaven — the stars I kneel to
In the sad, silent watches of my night;
While even in the meridian glare of day
I see them still — two sweetly scintillant
Venuses, unextinguished by the sun!


1850

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Edgar Allan Poe

Edgar Allan Poe

The Coliseum

Lone ampitheatre ! Grey Coliseum !
Type of the antique Rome ! Rich reliquary
Of lofty contemplation left to Time
By buried centuries of pomp and power !
At length, at length — after so many days
Of weary pilgrimage, and burning thirst,
(Thirst for the springs of love [lore] that in thee lie,)
I kneel, an altered, and an humble man,
Amid thy shadows, and so drink within
My very soul thy grandeur, gloom, and glory.

Vastness ! and Age ! and Memories of Eld !
Silence and Desolation! and dim Night!
Gaunt vestibules! and phantom-peopled aisles !
I feel ye now: I feel ye in your strength!
O spells more sure then [than] e'er Judæan king
Taught in the gardens of Gethsemane !
O charms more potent than the rapt Chaldee
Ever drew down from out the quiet stars !

Here, where a hero fell, a column falls :
Here, where the mimic eagle glared in gold,
A midnight vigil holds the swarthy bat:
Here, where the dames of Rome their yellow hair
Wav'd to the wind, now wave the reed and thistle :
Here, where on ivory couch the Cæsar sate,
On bed of moss lies gloating the foul adder :

Here, where on golden throne the monarch loll'd,
Glides spectre-like unto his marble home,
Lit by the wan light of the horned moon,
The swift and silent lizard of the stones.

These crumbling walls; these tottering arcades ;
These mouldering plinths; these sad, and blacken'd shafts ;
These vague entablatures; this broken frieze ;
These shattered cornices; this wreck; this ruin ;
These stones, alas! — these grey stones — are they all ;
All of the great and the colossal left
By the corrosive hours to Fate and me ?

"Not all," — the echoes answer me; "not all :
Prophetic sounds, and loud, arise forever
From us, and from all ruin, unto the wise,
As in old days from Memnon to the sun.
We rule the hearts of mightiest men: — we rule
With a despotic sway all giant minds.
We are not desolate — we pallid stones ;
Not all our power is gone; not all our Fame ;
Not all the magic of our high renown ;
Not all the wonder that encircles us ;
Not all the mysteries that in us lie;
Not all the memories that hang upon,
And cling around about us now and ever,
And clothe us in a robe of more than glory."


1833

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