So many stones have been thrown at me
That I don't fear them any longer
The trap an elegant tower has become,
Among tall towers, the taller.
I'm grateful to their builders — so be gone
Their sadness and their worry, go away,
Early from here I can see the dawn
And here triumphant lives the sun's last ray.
And frequently into my room's window
The winds from northern seas begin to blow
And pigeon from my palms eats wheat...
The pages that I did not complete
Divinely light she is and calm,
Will finish Muse's suntanned arm.
Она сначала обожжёт,
Как ветерок студеный,
А после в сердце упадёт
Одной слезой соленой.
И злому сердцу станет жаль
Чего-то. Грустно будет.
Но эту легкую печаль
Оно не позабудет.
Я только сею. Собирать
Придут другие. Что же!
И жниц ликующую рать
Благослови, о Боже!
А чтоб тебя благодарить
Я смела совершенней,
Позволь мне миру подарить
То, что любви нетленней.
«My soul is borne out on the wind. / Through the opaqueness of her earthly case she glitters like a sword. / She is free; she rides her body as the whirlwind the storm. / She is free from the death of the flesh. / / Her passage is brief as the lightning, / As the flash of the outgoing se...»
«In fields hopeless and dumb / Droops the pale-bladed grain; / It is dozing and numb / Amid dreams that are vain... / With a high sudden hum / The field tosses its mane: / "Unto us Christ is come!" / The wild news shakes the plain. / Like a wind-beaten drum / Shouts the quivering gr...»
«My insatiable memory is like / A melting asphalt roadway: / I remember all who have passed along it, / Every movement of their life... / The tracks of iron wheels, of teeth, / The rusty tracks of injury and anguish. / Nearby the sweet birdlike prints / Of a dead daughter's little shoes...»
«Where firs by snow all silvered stand, / Where palms grow in the golden south, / From home to home, from land to land, / His words pass on from mouth to mouth. On shores both near and far away, / By more than one new generation / In all five continents, today / His name is held in vener...»