Fatigued and worn, life in my frozen chest is fading
And that’s the end of strife, the end of everything!
Kyprid and Eros, torments to my heart you bring!
Just listen to my dismal voice before its ending.
I’m fading, and I’m bearing the pain:
I’m half alive but I am burning,
I’m fading, but I’m in love again,
I’m dying, without hope, but yearning!
Likewise, the alter flame enfolds the prey
And, turning pale, all of a sudden flashes,
As if reviving on the final day
It withers fading on the ashes.
Изнемогает жизнь в груди моей остылой;
Конец борению; увы! всему конец.
Киприда и Эрот, мучители сердец!
Услышьте голос мой последний и унылый.
Я вяну и ещё мучения терплю:
Полмертвый, но сгараю.
Я вяну, но ещё так пламенно люблю
И без надежды умираю!
Так, жертву обхватив кругом,
На алтаре огонь бледнеет, умирает
И, вспыхнув ярче пред концом,
На пепле погасает.
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«Her Torch was fiery and scarlet, / He Was thawing and twilight snow: He / Looked at Her and burned away, and / Burned away out of untasted blisses. The bosom of death opened blackly, / He did not hear the summons: / Live! And the hopeless flame of / Love was left alone in the ether. An...»
«The bright enchantment is / Ended, the heart has awoken / Empty; in the heart, as after a / Fire, goes suffocating smoke. “Finished” — a pitiful word; do / Not fear a pitiful word: soon in / The remnants of the past, even / Through smoke I shall understand. That which did not wa...»