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Sorriso Audível das Folhas
Sorriso audível das folhas
Não és mais que a brisa ali
Se eu te olho e tu me olhas,
Quem primeiro é que sorri?
O primeiro a sorrir ri.
Ri e olha de repente
Para fins de não olhar
Para onde nas folhas sente
O som do vento a passar
Tudo é vento e disfarçar.
Mas o olhar, de estar olhando
Onde não olha, voltou
E estamos os dois falando
O que se não conversou
Isto acaba ou começou?
Fernando Pessoa, in “Cancioneiro”
A Fairy Song
Over hill, over dale,
Thorough bush, thorough brier,
Over park, over pale,
Thorough flood, thorough fire!
I do wander everywhere,
Swifter than the moon’s sphere;
And I serve the Fairy Queen,
To dew her orbs upon the green;
The cowslips tall her pensioners be;
In their gold coats spots you see;
Those be rubies, fairy favours;
In those freckles live their savours;
I must go seek some dewdrops here,
And hang a pearl in every cowslip’s ear.
WS
A Song
A Song
COME, I will make the continent indissoluble;
I will make the most splendid race the sun ever yet shone upon;
I will make divine magnetic lands,
With the love of comrades,
With the life-long love of comrades.
I will plant companionship thick as trees along all the rivers of
America, and along the shores of the great lakes, and all over
the prairies;
I will make inseparable cities, with their arms about each other’s
necks;
By the love of comrades,
By the manly love of comrades.
For you these, from me, O Democracy, to serve you, ma femme! 10
For you! for you, I am trilling these songs,
In the love of comrades,
In the high-towering love of comrades.
Walt Whitman
Dialogue Example
Carpe Diem
O mistress mine, where are you roaming?
O stay and hear! your true-love’s coming
That can sing both high and low;
Trip no further, pretty sweeting,
Journey’s end in lovers’ meeting—
Every wise man’s son doth know.
What is love? ‘tis not hereafter;
Present mirth hath present laughter;
What’s to come is still unsure:
In delay there lies no plenty,—
Then come kiss me, Sweet and twenty,
Youth’s a stuff will not endure.
"Among the men and women the multitude,I perceive one picking me out by secret and divine signs,Acknowledging none else, not parent, wife, husband, brother, child, any nearer than I am,Some are baffled, but that one is not—that one knows me.Ah lover and perfect equal,I meant that you should discover me so by faint indirections,And I when I meet you mean to discover you by the like in you."
— by Walt Whitman
Posted 4 years agoAssim o Amor
Assim o amor
Espantado meu olhar com teus cabelos
Espantado meu olhar com teus cavalos
E grandes praias fluidas avenidas
Tardes que oscilam demoradas
E um confuso rumor de obscuras vidas
E o tempo sentado no limiar dos campos
Com seu fuso sua faca e seus novelos
Em vão busquei eterna luz precisa
Sophia de Mello Breyner Andresen, in “Obra Poética”
Não Digas Nada!
Não digas nada!
Nem mesmo a verdade
Há tanta suavidade em nada se dizer
E tudo se entender —
Tudo metade
De sentir e de ver…
Não digas nada
Deixa esquecer
Talvez que amanhã
Em outra paisagem
Digas que foi vã
Toda essa viagem
Até onde quis
Ser quem me agrada…
Mas ali fui feliz
Não digas nada.
Fernando Pessoa, in “Cancioneiro”
