Christina Rossetti (1830-1894)


Somewhere or Other


Somewhere or other there must surely be
The face not seen, the voice not heard,
The heart that not yet - never yet — ah me!
Made answer to my word.

Somewhere or other, may be near or far;
Past land and sea, clean out of sight;
Beyond the wandering moon, beyond the star
That tracks her night by night.

Somewhere or other, may be far or near;
With just a wall, a hedge, between;
With just the last leaves of the dying year
Fallen on a turf grown green.

Christina Rossetti
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Rainer Maria Rilke (1875-1926)


CANÇÃO

Tu, a quem não digo que acordado
fico à noite a chorar;
tu, cujo ser me faz cansado
como um berço a embalar;
tu, que me não dizes quando velas
por amor de mim;
diz-me: — Se pudéssemos aguentar
sem a acalmar
a pompa deste amor até ao fim?

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Ora olha os amantes e o que eles sentem:
mal vêm as confissões,
quão breve mentem!

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Só tu me fazes só. Só tu posso trocar.
Um momento és bem tu, depois é o sussurrar
ou um perfume sem traços.
Ai! a todas eu perdi entre os meus braços!
Só tu em mim renasces, sempre e a toda a hora:
Por nunca te abraçar é que te tenho agora.

Rainer Maria Rilke

Domingos Rebelo (1891-1975)

Georges Seurat (1859-1891)

Mark Twain (1835-1910)




THE ADVENTURES OF HUCKLEBERRY FINN


NOTICE:
Persons attempting to find a motive in this narrative will be prosecuted; persons attempting to find a moral in it will be banished; persons attempting to find a plot in it will be shot.

EXPLANATORY:
In this book a number of dialects are used, to wit: the Missouri negro dialect; the extremest form of the backwoods Southwestern dialect; the ordinary "Pike County" dialect; and four modified varieties of this last. The shadings have not been done in a haphazard fashion, or by guesswork; but painstakingly, and with the trustworthy guidance and support of personal familiarity with these several forms of speech.
I make this explanation for the reason that without it many readers would suppose that all these characters were trying to talk alike and not succeeding.



CHAPTER I

You don't know about me without you have read a book by the name of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer; but that ain't no matter. That book was made by Mr. Mark Twain, and he told the truth, mainly. There was things which he stretched, but mainly he told the truth. That is nothing. I never seen anybody but lied one time or another, without it was Aunt Polly, or the widow, or maybe Mary. Aunt Polly—Tom's Aunt Polly, she is—and Mary, and the Widow Douglas is all told about in that book, which is mostly a true book, with some stretchers, as I said before.

Now the way that the book winds up is this: Tom and me found the money that the robbers hid in the cave, and it made us rich. We got six thousand dollars apiece—all gold. It was an awful sight of money when it was piled up. Well, Judge Thatcher he took it and put it out at interest, and it fetched us a dollar a day apiece all the year round—more than a body could tell what to do with. The Widow Douglas she took me for her son, and allowed she would sivilize me; but it was rough living in the house all the time, considering how dismal regular and decent the widow was in all her ways; and so when I couldn't stand it no longer I lit out. I got into my old rags and my sugar-hogshead again, and was free and satisfied. But Tom Sawyer he hunted me up and said he was going to start a band of robbers, and I might join if I would go back to the widow and be respectable. So I went back.

The widow she cried over me, and called me a poor lost lamb, and she called me a lot of other names, too, but she never meant no harm by it. She put me in them new clothes again, and I couldn't do nothing but sweat and sweat, and feel all cramped up. Well, then, the old thing commenced again. The widow rung a bell for supper, and you had to come to time. When you got to the table you couldn't go right to eating, but you had to wait for the widow to tuck down her head and grumble a little over the victuals, though there warn't really anything the matter with them,—that is, nothing only everything was cooked by itself. In a barrel of odds and ends it is different; things get mixed up, and the juice kind of swaps around, and the things go better.

After supper she got out her book and learned me about Moses and the Bulrushers, and I was in a sweat to find out all about him; but by and by she let it out that Moses had been dead a considerable long time; so then I didn't care no more about him, because I don't take no stock in dead people.

Pretty soon I wanted to smoke, and asked the widow to let me. But she wouldn't. She said it was a mean practice and wasn't clean, and I must try to not do it any more. That is just the way with some people. They get down on a thing when they don't know nothing about it. Here she was a-bothering about Moses, which was no kin to her, and no use to anybody, being gone, you see, yet finding a power of fault with me for doing a thing that had some good in it. And she took snuff, too; of course that was all right, because she done it herself.

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António Gedeão (1906-1997)

Poema do poste com flores amarelas

Vieram os operários, puseram o poste de ferro na berma do passeio
e foram-se para voltar noutro dia.
O poste tinha sido pintado há pouco de verde
e quando lhe batia o sol rutilava como as escamas dos dragões.
Mesmo junto do poste, no passeio, havia uma árvore que dava flores amarelas,
e o vento fez cair algumas flores amarelas sobre o poste verde.
As pessoas que por ali passavam diziam "que chatice de poste",
mas o poeta sorria para as flores amarelas.

António Gedeão

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René Magritte (1898-1967)
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Nazim Hikmet (1901-1963)


Falling Leaves

I've read about falling leaves in fifty thousand poems novels and so on
watched leaves falling in fifty thousand movies
seen leaves fall fifty thousand times
fall drift and rot
felt their dead shush shush fifty thousand times
underfoot in my hands on my fingertips
but I'm still touched by falling leaves
especially those falling on boulevards
especially chestnut leaves
and if kids are around
if it's sunny
and I've got good news for friendship
especially if my heart doesn't ache
and I believe my love loves me
especially if it's a day I feel good about people
I'm touched by falling leaves
especially those falling on boulevards
especially chestnut leaves

Nazim Hikmet
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Manuel António Pina (1943)


Amor como em casa

Regresso devagar ao teu
sorriso como quem volta a casa. Faço de conta que
não é nada comigo. Distraído percorro
o caminho familiar da saudade,
pequeninas coisas me prendem,
uma tarde num café, um livro. Devagar
te amo e às vezes depressa,
meu amor, e às vezes faço coisas que não devo,
regresso devagar a tua casa,
compro um livro, entro no
amor como em casa.

Manuel António Pina

Claude Monet (1840-1926)
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Jan Vermeer van Delft (1632-1675)

John Keats (1795-1821)

When I have fears that I may cease to be
Before my pen has glean'd my teeming brain,
Before high-piled books, in charact'ry,
Hold like rich garners the full-ripen'd grain;
When I behold, upon the night's starr'd face
Huge cloudy symbols of a high romance,
And think that I may never live to trace
Their shadows with the magic hand of chance;
And when I feel, fair creature of an hour!
That I shall never look upon thee more,
Never have relish in the faery power
Of unreflecting love; — then on the shore
Of the wide world I stand alone, and think
Till love and fame to nothingness do sink.

Ezra Pound (1885-1972)



The River-Merchant's Wife: A Letter

After Li Po

While my hair was still cut straight across my forehead
I played about the front gate, pulling flowers.
You came by on bamboo stilts, playing horse,
You walked about my seat, playing with blue plums.
And we went on living in the village of Chokan:
Two small people, without dislike or suspicion.


At fourteen I married My Lord you.
I never laughed, being bashful.
Lowering my head, I looked at the wall.
Called to, a thousand times, I never looked back.


At fifteen I stopped scowling,
I desired my dust to be mingled with yours
Forever and forever and forever.
Why should I climb the look out?


At sixteen you departed,
You went into far Ku-to-yen, by the river of swirling eddies,
And you have been gone five months.
The monkeys make sorrowful noise overhead.


You dragged your feet when you went out.
By the gate now, the moss is grown, the different mosses,
Too deep to clear them away!
The leaves fall early this autumn, in wind.
The paired butterflies are already yellow with August
Over the grass in the West garden;
They hurt me. I grow older.
If you are coming down through the narrows of the river Kiang,
Please let me know beforehand,
And I will come out to meet you
As far as Cho-fu-Sa.

Ezra Pound
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Pablo Picasso (1891-1973)
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Emanuel Félix (1936-2004)


DISA LINDEROTH


Direi
Que regresso do teu nome

Que desço lentamente
Pétala a pétala
A escada da lembrança.


Emanuel Félix, Seis Nomes de Mulher
.

almost dawn
blackbirds on the telephone wire
waiting
as I eat yesterday's
forgotten sandwich
at 6 a.m.
on a quiet Sunday morning.

one shoe in the corner
standing upright
the other laying on it's
side.

yes, some lives were made to be
wasted.

Charles Bukowski

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Vinícius de Morais (1913-1980)


Ausência

Eu deixarei que morra em mim o desejo de amar os teus olhos que são doces
Porque nada te poderei dar senão a mágoa de me veres eternamente exausto.
No entanto a tua presença é qualquer coisa como a luz e a vida
E eu sinto que em meu gesto existe o teu gesto e em minha voz a tua voz.
Não te quero ter porque em meu ser tudo estaria terminado.
Quero só que surjas em mim como a fé nos desesperados
Para que eu possa levar uma gota de orvalho nesta terra amaldiçoada
Que ficou sobre a minha carne como nódoa do passado.
Eu deixarei... tu irás e encostarás a tua face em outra face.
Teus dedos enlaçarão outros dedos e tu desabrocharás para a madrugada.
Mas tu não saberás que quem te colheu fui eu, porque eu fui o grande íntimo da noite.
Porque eu encostei minha face na face da noite e ouvi a tua fala amorosa.
Porque meus dedos enlaçaram os dedos da névoa suspensos no espaço.
E eu trouxe até mim a misteriosa essência do teu abandono desordenado.
Eu ficarei só como os veleiros nos pontos silenciosos.
Mas eu te possuirei como ninguém porque poderei partir.
E todas as lamentações do mar, do vento, do céu, das aves, das estrelas
Serão a tua voz presente, a tua voz ausente, a tua voz serenizada.

Vinícius de Morais, Antologia Poética

António Ramos Rosa (1924)


Caminho um caminho de palavras
(porque me deram o sol)
e por esse caminho me ligo ao sol
e pelo sol me ligo a mim

E porque a noite não tem limites
alargo o dia e faço-me dia
e faço-me sol porque o sol existe

Mas a noite existe
e a palavra sabe-o.


António Ramos Rosa, Sobre o Rosto da Terra
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Paul Eluard (1895-1952)


Nous avons fait la nuit

Nous avons fait la nuit je tiens ta main je veille
Je te soutiens de toutes mes forces
Je grave sur un roc l'étoile de tes forces
Sillons profonds où la bonté de ton corps germera
Je me répète ta voix cachée ta voix publique
Je ris encore de l'orgueilleuse
Que tu traites comme une mendiante
Des fous que tu respectes des simples où tu te baignes
Et dans ma tête qui se met doucement d'accord avec la tienne avec la nuit
Je m'émerveille de l'inconnue semblable à toi semblable à tout ce que j'aime
Qui est toujours nouveau.

Paul Eluard
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João Abel Manta (1888-1982)
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