Had I the heavens’ embroidered cloths,
Enwrought with golden and silver light,
The blue and the dim and the dark cloths
Of night and light and the half light,
I would spread the cloths under your feet:
But I, being poor, have only my dreams;
I have spread my dreams under your feet;
Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.*
W.B. Yeats (1865–1939) - He Wishes For the Cloths of Heaven
_______________________________________
*Fossem meus os tecidos bordados dos céus,
Ornamentados com luz dourada e prateada,
Os azuis e negros e pálidos tecidos
Da noite, da luz e da meia-luz,
Os estenderia sob os teus pés.
Mas eu, sendo pobre, tenho apenas os meus sonhos.
Eu estendi meus sonhos sob os teus pés
Caminha suavemente, pois caminhas sobre meus sonhos.
What Is To Be Given
ResponderExcluirWhat is to be given
Is spirit, yet animal,
Colored, like heaven,
Blue, yellow, beautiful.
The blood is checkered by
So many stains and wishes,
Between it and the sky
You could not choose, for riches.
Yet let me now be careful
Not to give too much
To one so shy and fearful
For like a gun is touch.
Delmore Schwartz