terça-feira, 14 de fevereiro de 2006

To my love on Valentine's Day

Em honra do meu santo e de todos os que amam.

Lullaby de W.H. Auden

Lay Your Sleeping head, my love,
Human on my faithless arm:
Time and fevers burn away
Individual beauty from
Thoughtful children,and the grave
Proves the child ephemeral:
But in my arms till break of day
Let the living creature lie,
Mortal, guilty, but to me
The entirely beautiful.

Soul and body have no bounds:
To lovers as they lie upon
Her tolerant enchanted slope
In their ordinary swoon,
Grave the vision Venus sends
Of supernatural sympathy,
Universal love and hope;
While an abstract insight wakes
Among the glaciers and the rocks
The hermit's carnal ecstasy,

Certainty, fidelity
On the stroke of midnight pass
Like vibrations of a bell
And fashionable madmen raise
Their pedantic boring cry:
Every farthing of the cost.
All the dreaded cards foretell.
Shall be paid, but from this night
Not a whisper, not a thought.
Not a kiss nor look be lost.

Beauty, midnight, vision dies:
Let the winds of dawn that blow
Softly round your dreaming head
Such a day of welcome show
Eye and knocking heart may bless,
Find our mortal world enough;
Noons of dryness find you fed
By the involuntary powers,
Nights of insult let you pass
Watched by every human love.

2 comentários:

A ilha dentro de mim disse...

Finalmente aparece uma brava para me fazer companhia neste pasto. Estava a sentir-me mui lonely... Bjokas pa ti, Valentina do meu primo!

RD disse...

Haja saúde pikenas.
Vim ver o estado da coisa por cá e bem vejo que está animado, afinal há vida em Vénus.
Parece que ando noutro mundo, credo, só agora vejo pelo post que é dia do apêndice. hehe.
Por aqui poupa-se :)
Beijos!