Lines Written In Early Spring

I heard a thousand blended notes,
While in a grove I sate reclined,
In that sweet mood when pleasant thoughts
Bring sad thoughts to the mind.

To her fair works did Nature link
The human soul that through me ran;
And much it grieved my heart to think
What man has made of man.

Through primrose tufts, in that green bower,
The periwinkle trailed its wreaths;
And 'tis my faith that every flower
Enjoys the air it breathes.

The birds around me hopped and played,
Their thoughts I cannot measure:--
But the least motion which they made
It seemed a thrill of pleasure.

The budding twigs spread out their fan,
To catch the breezy air;
And I must think, do all I can,
That there was pleasure there.

If this belief from heaven be sent,
If such be Nature's holy plan,
Have I not reason to lament
What man has made of man?


William Wordsworth

Rain In My Heart

There is a quiet in my heart
Like on who rests from days of pain.
Outside, the sparrows on the roof
Are chirping in the dripping rain.

Rain in my heart; rain on the roof;
And memory sleeps beneath the gray
And the windless sky and brings no
dreams
Of any well remembered day.

I would not have the heavens fair,
Nor golden clouds, nor breezes
mild,
But days like this, until my heart
To loss of you is reconciled.

I would not see you. Every hope
To know you as you were has
ranged.
I, who am altered, would not find
The face I loved so greatly changed.


Edgar Lee Masters

Pedra Filosofal

Eles não sabem que o sonho
é uma constante da vida
tão concreta e definida
como outra coisa qualquer

como esta pedra cinzenta
em que me sento e descanso
como este ribeiro manso
em serenos sobressaltos

como estes pinheiros altos
que em verde e oiro se agitam
como estas árvores que gritam
em bebedeiras de azul

eles não sabem que sonho
é vinho, é espuma, é fermento
bichinho alacre e sedento
de focinho pontiagudo
que fuça através de tudo
no perpétuo movimento

Eles não sabem que o sonho
é tela é cor é pincel
base, fuste ou capitel
arco em ogiva, vitral

Pináculo de catedral
contraponto, sinfonia
máscara grega, magia
que é retorta de alquimista

mapa do mundo distante
Rosa dos Ventos Infante
caravela quinhentista
que é cabo da Boa-Esperança

Ouro, canela, marfim
florete de espadachim
bastidor, passo de dança
Columbina e Arlequim

passarola voadora
pára-raios, locomotiva
barco de proa festiva
alto-forno, geradora

cisão do átomo, radar
ultra-som, televisão
desembarque em foguetão
na superfície lunar

Eles não sabem nem sonham
que o sonho comanda a vida
e que sempre que o homem sonha
o mundo pula e avança
como bola colorida
entre as mãos duma criança


Antonio Gedeão

Sometimes the Sky's Too Bright

Sometimes the sky's too bright,
Or has too many clouds or birds,
And far away's too sharp a sun
To nourish thinking of him.
Why is my hand too blunt
To cut in front of me
My horrid images for me,
Of over-fruitful smiles,
The weightless touching of the lip
I wish to know
I cannot lift, but can,
The creature with the angel's face
Who tells me hurt,
And sees my body go
Down into misery?
No stopping. Put the smile
Where tears have come to dry.
The angel's hurt is left;
His telling burns.

Sometimes a woman's heart has salt,
Or too much blood;
I tear her breast,
And see the blood is mine,
Flowing from her, but mine,
And then I think
Perhaps the sky's too bright;
And watch my hand,
But do not follow it,
And feel the pain it gives,
But do not ache.

Dylan Thomas

Fern Hill

Now as I was young and easy under the apple boughs
About the lilting house and happy as the grass was green,
The night above the dingle starry,
Time let me hail and climb
Golden in the heydays of his eyes,
And honoured among wagons I was prince of the apple towns
And once below a time I lordly had the trees and leaves
Trail with daisies and barley
Down the rivers of the windfall light.

And as I was green and carefree, famous among the barns
About the happy yard and singing as the farm was home,
In the sun that is young once only,
Time let me play and be
Golden in the mercy of his means,
And green and golden I was huntsman and herdsman, the calves
Sang to my horn, the foxes on the hills barked clear and cold,
And the sabbath rang slowly
In the pebbles of the holy streams.

All the sun long it was running, it was lovely, the hay
Fields high as the house, the tunes from the chimneys, it was air
And playing, lovely and watery
And fire green as grass.
And nightly under the simple stars
As I rode to sleep the owls were bearing the farm away,
All the moon long I heard, blessed among stables, the nightjars
Flying with the ricks, and the horses
Flashing into the dark.

And then to awake, and the farm, like a wanderer white
With the dew, come back, the cock on his shoulder: it was all
Shining, it was Adam and maiden,
The sky gathered again
And the sun grew round that very day.
So it must have been after the birth of the simple light
In the first, spinning place, the spellbound horses walking warm
Out of the whinnying green stable
On to the fields of praise.
And honoured among foxes and pheasants by the gay house
Under the new made clouds and happy as the heart was long,
In the sun born over and over,
I ran my heedless ways,
My wishes raced through the house high hay
And nothing I cared, at my sky blue trades, that time allows
In all his tuneful turning so few and such morning songs
Before the children green and golden
Follow him out of grace,

Nothing I cared, in the lamb white days, that time would take me
Up to the swallow thronged loft by the shadow of my hand,
In the moon that is always rising,
Nor that riding to sleep
I should hear him fly with the high fields
And wake to the farm forever fled from the childless land.
Oh as I was young and easy in the mercy of his means,
Time held me green and dying
Though I sang in my chains like the sea.


Dylan Thomas
in Collected Poems
(London: Phoenix, 2003)

MY QUINTESSENCIAL BLUE

(...quisera enxergar meus versos
com vistas de outro,
sem os olhos tacanhos de dentro...)

vou arrancar os sapatos
e ouvir
meu blue quintessenciado

despir-me de humores
e escapar, asas em som,
pelos portais dos sentidos
pelos desvãos do telhado

- não me lembrem então do mundo
este já me entope os poros
a cada esquina
e satura a pele feito pólipo -


vou desfazer as bagagens
armar a noite em blue

e ser assim alteridade
a mim imune
um corpo estranho
um vagalume

Fernando Campanella

Sopra-me

Sopra-me
que ao de onde procedo
haverei com levezas
de, então, retornar.
Com o calor de teu sopro,
de teu insuflar,
meus versos,
como pelúcias e pétalas,
no regaço das tardes,
no jardim das estrelas,
haverão assim de cair,
haverão de pousar.

Fernando Campanella

Ao Vento

Fica comigo, mas não posso pedir ao vento
que sopre ao alcance de meu ouvido,
ou à terra que abençoe meus segredos contigo –
nem mesmo da luz querer ouso
que se detenha em meu abrigo.
Quando os dados lançados, e até meu silêncio,
contra toda certeza parece que conspiram
- e caso os dedos do mundo
em suas recurvas unhas nos firam -
releva, e fica comigo: os anjos sabem mais alto
daquilo em que insisto, do que preciso.


(F.Campanella)

“Days”

What are days for?
Days are where we live.
They come, they wake us
Time and time over.
They are to be happy in:
Where can we live but days?

Ah, solving that question
Brings the priest and the doctor
In their long coats
Running over the fields.


Philip Larkin
in ' The Whitsun Weddings', 1964
*Philip Arthur Larkin
(9 August 1922 – 2 December 1985, England)

E N T A R D E C E R

O crepúsculo desce! A tarde finda. . .
Que drama ante os meus olhos se descerra!
O sol, cansado da batalha infinda,
As pálpebras de luz no ocaso, cerra. . .


Silente a tarde a imensidade brinda!
Infinita saudade me soterra! . . .
Ante esta quadra misteriosa e linda,
Recordo-me dos céus de minha terra!


Olho o poente que aos poucos se avermelha!
Nesta contemplação a alma se ajoelha,
Deslumbra ao calor das grandes ânsias


E sequiosa do sol de outra paragem
Integra-se à beleza da paisagem
E mergulha na bruma das distancias! . . .



Jansen Filho
In: Obras Completas

Isento

Mira-te pelo calendário das flores
Que são só viço e esquecimento.
Desprende-te dos ofícios do dia,
Apaga os números, os anos e anos,
Releva a data de teu nascimento.
E assim, por tão leve sendo,
Por tão de ti isento,
De uma quase resistência de pluma,
Abraça o momento,
Toma por bagagem os sonhos
E apanha carona no vento.


Fernando Campanella
(Poema em homenagem pelo aniversário
de minha amiga Maria Madalena)

(Linnet, foto vy Fernando Gonçalves PT)

I envy not in any moods
The captive void of noble rage,
The linnet born within the cage,
That never knew the summer woods:
I envy not the beast that takes
His license in the field of time,
Unfetter'd by the sense of crime,
To whom a conscience never wakes;
Nor, what may count itself as blest,
The heart that never plighted troth
But stagnates in the weeds of sloth;
Nor any want-begotten rest.

I hold it true, whate'er befall;
I feel it, when I sorrow most;
'Tis better to have loved and lost
Than never to have loved at all.


Lord Alfred Tennyson,
(England 1809 -1892)

Desintegração

Eu tenho o coração cheio de coisas para dizer...
E a minha voz, se eu acaso falasse,
teria a força de uma revelação!

Meu espírito palpita ao ritmo desordenado e aflito
de asas prisioneiras que se dilaceraram
na arrancada impossível da libertação e da altura.

Minhas mãos tremem ainda ao contato
imaterial, sobre-humano e fugitivo
de qualquer coisa além e acima deste mundo...

Adormeceu para sempre no fundo dos meus olhos
a saudade de paisagens estranhas e longínquas,
que nunca, nunca mais voltarão neste tempo e neste espaço.

Doem meus olhos. Tremem, ansiosas, as minhas mãos.
Meu espírito palpita. Tenho o coração cheio de coisas para dizer...
Eu estou vivo, Senhor! mas, em verdade, é como se estivesse morto...


Abgar Renault
(Barbacena, 15 de abril de 1901 —
Rio de Janeiro, 31 de dezembro de 1995-)

TO EMILY DICKINSON

Foto by Fernando Campanella


Emily, what is this from you
that play so tender strings
in me?

What is it -
a certain rainbow
tha transcend colours,
a broom that sweeps
etherial seas?

Or a sweetest clover
which you drink from,
o, translucent bee?

(Fernando Campanella)

CREPUSCULAR

Poente no meu jardim... O olhar profundo
Alongo sobre as árvores vazias,
Essas em cujo espírito infecundo
Soluçam silenciosas agonias.

Assim estéreis, mansas e sombrias,
Sugerem à emoção em que as circundo
Todas as dolorosas utopias
De todos os filósofos do mundo.

Sugerem... Seus destinos são vizinhos:
Ambas, não dando frutos, abrem ninhos
Ao viandante exânime que as olhe.

Ninhos, onde vencida de fadiga,
A alma ingênua dos pássaros se abriga
E a tristeza dos homens se recolhe...

Raul de Leoni
(Rio de Janeiro-1895-1926)