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harborshore) wrote2009-09-26 10:12 pm
harborshore) wrote2009-09-26 10:12 pm
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i would i could reach out and touch
We just spent an hour outside watching the night sky. Two falling stars, Jupiter hovering above the treetops, and I have no words of my own, absolutely none, for what I'm feeling right now.
DON PEDRO
Your silence most offends me, and to be merry best
becomes you; for, out of question, you were born in
a merry hour.
BEATRICE
No my lord, my mother cried; but then there
was a star danced, and under that was I born.
--Shakespeare
Stjärnorna
När natten kommer
står jag på trappan och lyssnar,
stjärnorna svärma i trädgården
och jag står ute i mörkret.
Hör, en stjärna föll med en klang!
Gå icke ut i gräset med bara fötter;
min trädgård är full av skärvor.
--Edith Södergran
The Stars
When night falls
I stand on my porch and listen,
the stars swarm in the garden
and I stand outside in the dark.
Listen, a star fell, singing!
Do not walk on the grass with bare feet;
my garden is full of shards.
--my translation
DON PEDRO
Your silence most offends me, and to be merry best
becomes you; for, out of question, you were born in
a merry hour.
BEATRICE
No my lord, my mother cried; but then there
was a star danced, and under that was I born.
--Shakespeare
Stjärnorna
När natten kommer
står jag på trappan och lyssnar,
stjärnorna svärma i trädgården
och jag står ute i mörkret.
Hör, en stjärna föll med en klang!
Gå icke ut i gräset med bara fötter;
min trädgård är full av skärvor.
--Edith Södergran
The Stars
When night falls
I stand on my porch and listen,
the stars swarm in the garden
and I stand outside in the dark.
Listen, a star fell, singing!
Do not walk on the grass with bare feet;
my garden is full of shards.
--my translation
no subject
Therefore the love which us doth bind,
But Fate so enviously debars,
Is the conjunction of the mind,
And opposition of the stars.
no subject
no subject
Hee, really? It's the extra dots and circles, isn't it. (She's my favorite poet. Which says a lot, probably.)