Category Archives: Translation

For use when a poem has been translated

SONNETS FROM THE PORTUGUESE – XLI

Posted on January 2, 2019 by Elizabeth Barrett Browning

I thank you all, who have loved me so right with your hearts entwined in mine. Thank-you each, who have remained: in her voices-view when my prison-walls appeared so tight;

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THE KEEPER OF FLOCKS – XXVI

Posted on December 10, 2018 by Fernando Pessoa

If I do interrogate when I am astonishedNo new fresh flowers are born in the meadowsNor does it change anything in the sun so that it becomes more beautiful…(Even if fresh flowers were born in the meadowAnd the sun changed … Continue reading →

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SONNETS FROM THE PORTUGUESE – XLIII

Posted on December 9, 2018 by Elizabeth Barrett Browning

How do I love you? Let me count how I do. I love you deeply, so highly, with a certainty, as my soul blindly extends, when with you our existence touches and we make eternity.

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THE KEEPER OF FLOCKS – XXIII

Posted on November 24, 2018 by Fernando Pessoa

My blue eyes are like the sky Which is calm like water in the sunlight. It is so, blue and calm, Because we don’t interrogate not even in astonishment…

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THE THIRST FOR INDEPENDENCE

Posted on November 24, 2018 by C. Subramania Bharati

What can sharpen this thirst for our freedom? What can help shake our love to be beaten? When will mother earth break our shackles free? When, in her love, will we and things be? Wasn’t there once another spirit in … Continue reading →

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