Libros Romanticismo: Byron, Shelley, Wordsworth, Coleridge...

[Jacques de Molay]

Abro un hilo nuevo sobre los románticos, veréis cuánto tienen de precursores de los malditos (en quienes lo romántico ha devenido ya malsano y enfermizo).

Empiezo con un par de poemas del malogrado Percy Bysshe Shelley:

De quien se puede encontrar una biografía en:
https://www.epdlp.com/escritor.php?id=2306


Ozymandias

I met a traveler from an antique land
Who said: Two vast and trunkless legs of stone
Stand in the desert. Near them, on the sand,
Half sunk, a shattered visage lies, whose frown,
And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command,
Tell that its sculptor well those passions read,
Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things,
The hand that mocked them, and the heart that fed,
And on the pedestal these words appear:
"My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings:
Look upon my works, ye Mighty, and despair!"
Nothing beside remains. Round the decay
Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare
The lone and level sands stretch far away.

Ozymandias

Me encontré con un viajero de un antiguo país
Que dijo: dos grandes piernas de piedra sin tronco
Están en el desierto... junto a ellas en la arena,
Medio hundido yace un rostro roto, cuyo ceño
Y su fruncido labio y su fría expresión
Revelan que su escultor entendió bien las pasiones
Que aún perviven grabadas en la piedra muerta.
La mano que las desafió y el corazón que alimentaron
y en el pedestal se leen estas palabras:
«Mi nombre es Ozymandias, rey de reyes:
contempla mi obra, oh poderoso, y desespera»
Nada permanece. Alrededor de la decadencia
De este colosal naufragio, desnuda y sin fin
Las solitarias y llanas arenas se extienden a lo lejos.

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Wake the serpent not

Wake the serpent not -- lest he
Should not know the way to go, --
Let him crawl which yet lies sleeping
Through the deep grass of the meadow!
Not a bee shall hear him creeping,
Not a may-fly shall awaken
From its cradling blue-bell shaken,
Not the starlight as he's sliding
Through the grass with silent gliding.

No despertéis jamás a la serpiente

No despertéis jamás a la serpiente,
Por miedo a que ella ignore su camino;
Dejad que se deslive mientras duerme
Sumida en la honda yerba de los prados.
Que ni una abeja la oiga al arrastrarse,
Que ni una mosca efímera resurja
De su sueño, acunada en la campánula,
Ni las estrellas, cuando se escabulla
Silente entre la hierba, escurridiza.


He ahí su tumba:

 

[Ramon Llull]

Exquisito hilo de opio, depresiones y suicidios, Molay.

Les dejo la oda Intimations of immortality from recollections of early childhood de William Wordsworth.



I

THERE was a time when meadow, grove, and stream,
The earth, and every common sight,
To me did seem
Apparelled in celestial light,
The glory and the freshness of a dream.
It is not now as it hath been of yore;--
Turn wheresoe'er I may,
By night or day,
The things which I have seen I now can see no more.

II

The Rainbow comes and goes,
And lovely is the Rose,
The Moon doth with delight
Look round her when the heavens are bare,
Waters on a starry night
Are beautiful and fair;
The sunshine is a glorious birth;
But yet I know, where'er I go,
That there hath past away a glory from the earth.

III

Now, while the birds thus sing a joyous song,
And while the young lambs bound
As to the tabor's sound,
To me alone there came a thought of grief:
A timely utterance gave that thought relief,
And I again am strong:
The cataracts blow their trumpets from the steep;
No more shall grief of mine the season wrong;
I hear the Echoes through the mountains throng,
The Winds come to me from the fields of sleep,
And all the earth is gay;
Land and sea
Give themselves up to jollity,
And with the heart of May
Doth every Beast keep holiday;--
Thou Child of Joy,
Shout round me, let me hear thy shouts, thou happy
Shepherd-boy!

IV

Ye blessed Creatures, I have heard the call
Ye to each other make; I see
The heavens laugh with you in your jubilee;
My heart is at your festival,
My head hath its coronal,
The fulness of your bliss, I feel--I feel it all.
Oh evil day! if I were sullen
While Earth herself is adorning,
This sweet May-morning,
And the Children are culling
On every side,
In a thousand valleys far and wide,
Fresh flowers; while the sun shines warm,
And the Babe leaps up on his Mother's arm:--
I hear, I hear, with joy I hear!
--But there's a Tree, of many, one,
A single Field which I have looked upon,
Both of them speak of something that is gone:
The Pansy at my feet
Doth the same tale repeat:
Whither is fled the visionary gleam?
Where is it now, the glory and the dream?

V

Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting:
The Soul that rises with us, our life's Star,
Hath had elsewhere its setting,
And cometh from afar:
Not in entire forgetfulness,
And not in utter nakedness,
But trailing clouds of glory do we come
From God, who is our home:
Heaven lies about us in our infancy!
Shades of the prison-house begin to close
Upon the growing Boy,
But He beholds the light, and whence it flows,
He sees it in his joy;
The Youth, who daily farther from the east
Must travel, still is Nature's Priest,
And by the vision splendid
Is on his way attended;
At length the Man perceives it die away,
And fade into the light of common day.

VI

Earth fills her lap with pleasures of her own;
Yearnings she hath in her own natural kind,
And, even with something of a Mother's mind,
And no unworthy aim,
The homely Nurse doth all she can
To make her Foster-child, her Inmate Man,
Forget the glories he hath known,
And that imperial palace whence he came.

VII

Behold the Child among his new-born blisses,
A six years' Darling of a pigmy size!
See, where 'mid work of his own hand he lies,
Fretted by sallies of his mother's kisses,
With light upon him from his father's eyes!
See, at his feet, some little plan or chart,
Some fragment from his dream of human life,
Shaped by himself with newly-learned art;
A wedding or a festival,
A mourning or a funeral;
And this hath now his heart,
And unto this he frames his song:
Then will he fit his tongue
To dialogues of business, love, or strife;
But it will not be long
Ere this be thrown aside,
And with new joy and pride
The little Actor cons another part;
Filling from time to time his "humorous stage"
With all the Persons, down to palsied Age,
That Life brings with her in her equipage;
As if his whole vocation
Were endless imitation.

VIII

Thou, whose exterior semblance doth belie
Thy Soul's immensity;
Thou best Philosopher, who yet dost keep
Thy heritage, thou Eye among the blind,
That, deaf and silent, read'st the eternal deep,
Haunted for ever by the eternal mind,--
Mighty Prophet! Seer blest!
On whom those truths do rest,
Which we are toiling all our lives to find,
In darkness lost, the darkness of the grave;
Thou, over whom thy Immortality
Broods like the Day, a Master o'er a Slave,
A Presence which is not to be put by;
Thou little Child, yet glorious in the might
Of heaven-born freedom on thy being's height,
Why with such earnest pains dost thou provoke
The years to bring the inevitable yoke,
Thus blindly with thy blessedness at strife?
Full soon thy Soul shall have her earthly freight,
And custom lie upon thee with a weight
Heavy as frost, and deep almost as life!

IX

O joy! that in our embers
Is something that doth live,
That nature yet remembers
What was so fugitive!
The thought of our past years in me doth breed
Perpetual benediction: not indeed
For that which is most worthy to be blest--
Delight and liberty, the simple creed
Of Childhood, whether busy or at rest,
With new-fledged hope still fluttering in his breast:--
Not for these I raise
The song of thanks and praise;
But for those obstinate questionings
Of sense and outward things,
Fallings from us, vanishings;
Blank misgivings of a Creature
Moving about in worlds not realised,
High instincts before which our mortal Nature
Did tremble like a guilty Thing surprised:
But for those first affections,
Those shadowy recollections,
Which, be they what they may,
Are yet the fountain light of all our day,
Are yet a master light of all our seeing;
Uphold us, cherish, and have power to make
Our noisy years seem moments in the being
Of the eternal Silence: truths that wake,
To perish never;
Which neither listlessness, nor mad endeavour,
Nor Man nor Boy,
Nor all that is at enmity with joy,
Can utterly abolish or destroy!
Hence in a season of calm weather
Though inland far we be,
Our Souls have sight of that immortal sea
Which brought us hither,
Can in a moment travel thither,
And see the Children sport upon the shore,
And hear the mighty waters rolling evermore.

X

Then sing, ye Birds, sing, sing a joyous song!
And let the young Lambs bound
As to the tabor's sound!
We in thought will join your throng,
Ye that pipe and ye that play,
Ye that through your hearts to-day
Feel the gladness of the May!
What though the radiance which was once so bright
Be now for ever taken from my sight,
Though nothing can bring back the hour
Of splendour in the grass, of glory in the flower;
We will grieve not, rather find
Strength in what remains behind;
In the primal sympathy
Which having been must ever be;
In the soothing thoughts that spring
Out of human suffering;
In the faith that looks through death,
In years that bring the philosophic mind.

XI

And O, ye Fountains, Meadows, Hills, and Groves,
Forebode not any severing of our loves!
Yet in my heart of hearts I feel your might;
I only have relinquished one delight
To live beneath your more habitual sway.
I love the Brooks which down their channels fret,
Even more than when I tripped lightly as they;
The innocent brightness of a new-born Day
Is lovely yet;
The Clouds that gather round the setting sun
Do take a sober colouring from an eye
That hath kept watch o'er man's mortality;
Another race hath been, and other palms are won.
Thanks to the human heart by which we live,
Thanks to its tenderness, its joys, and fears,
To me the meanest flower that blows can give
Thoughts that do often lie too deep for tears.

 

[Prathe]

Como ignorante profunda del inglés, les agradecería la traducción.

 

[Prathe]

Como ignorante profunda del inglés, les agradecería la traducción.

 

[Jacques de Molay]

JOHN KEATS

Oda a un Ruiseñor


Me duele el corazón y un pesado letargo
aflige a mis sentidos, tal si hubiera bebido
cicuta o apurado un opiato hace sólo
un instante y me hubiera sumido en el Leteo:
y esto no es porque tenga envidia de tu suerte,
sino porque feliz me siento con tu dicha
cuando, ligera dríade alada de los árboles,
en algún melodioso lugar de verdes hayas
e innumerables sombras
brota en el estío tu canto enajenado.



¡Oh, si un trago de vino largo tiempo enfriado
en las profundas cuevas de la tierra
que supiera a Flora y a la verde campiña,
canciones provenzales, sol, danza y regocijo;
oh, si una copa de caliente sur,
llena de la mismísima, ruborosa Hipocrene,
ensartadas burbujas titilando en los bordes,
purpúrea la boca: si pudiera beber
y abandonar el mundo inadvertido
y junto a ti perderme por el oscuro bosque!



Perderme a lo lejos, deshacerme, olvidar
que entre las hojas tú nunca has conocido
la inquietud, el cansancio y la fiebre
aquí, donde los hombres tan sólo se lamentan
y tiemblan de parálisis postreras, tristes canas,
donde crecen los jóvenes como espectros y mueren,
donde aun el pensamiento se llena de tristeza
y de desesperanzas, donde ni la Belleza
puede salvaguardar sus luminosos ojos
por los que el nuevo amor perece sin mañana.



¡Lejos! ¡Muy lejos! He de volar hacia ti.
No me conducirán leopardos de Baco
sino unas invisibles y poéticas alas;
aunque torpe y confusa se retrase mi mente:
¡ya estoy contigo! Suave es la noche
y tal vez en su trono aparezca la luna
circundada de mágicas estrellas.
Pero aquí no hay luz, salvo la que acompaña
desde el cielo el soplo de la brisa cruzando
el oscuro verdor y veredas de musgo.



No puedo ver qué flores hay a mis pies
ni el blando incienso suspendido en las ramas,
pero en la embalsamada oscuridad presiento
cada uno de los dones con los que la estación
dota a la hierba, los árboles silvestres, la espesura:
pastoril eglantina y blanco espino,
violetas marcesibles recubiertas de hojas
y el primer nuevo brote de mediados de mayo,
la rosa del almizcle rociada de vino,
morada rumorosa de moscas en verano.




A oscuras escucho. Y en más de una ocasión
he amado el alivio que depara la muerte
invocándola con ternura en versos meditados
para que disipara en el aire mi aliento.
Ahora más que nunca morir parece dulce,
dejar de existir sin pena a medianoche
¡mientras se te derrama afuera el alma
en semejante éxtasis! Seguiría tu canto
y te habría escuchado yo en vano:
a tu requiem conviene un pedazo de tierra.



¡No conoces la muerte, Pájaro inmortal!
No te hollará caído generación hambrienta.
La voz que ahora escucho mientras pasa la noche
fue oída en otros tiempos por reyes y bufones;
tal vez fuera este mismo canto el que una senda
encontró en el triste corazón de Ruth, cuando
enferma de añoranza, se sumía en el llanto
rodeada de trigos extranjeros,
la misma que otras veces ha encantado mágicas
ventanas que se abren a peligrosos mares
en prodigiosas tierras ya olvidadas.



¡Olvidadas! El mismo tañer de esta palabra
me devuelve, ya lejos de ti, a mi soledad.
¡Adiós! La Fantasía no consigue engañarnos
tanto, duende falaz, como dice la fama.
¡Adiós! Tu lastimero himno se desvanece
al pasar por los prados vecinos, el tranquilo
arroyo y la colina; ahora es enterrado
en los calveros del cercano valle.
¿He soñado despierto o ha sido una visión?
Ha volado la música. ¿Estoy despierto o duermo?



Y en la lengua de Shakespeare:


Ode to a Nightingale


1.

MY heart aches, and a drowsy numbness pains
My sense, as though of hemlock I had drunk,
Or emptied some dull opiate to the drains
One minute past, and Lethe-wards had sunk:
’Tis not through envy of thy happy lot, 5
But being too happy in thine happiness,—
That thou, light-winged Dryad of the trees,
In some melodious plot
Of beechen green, and shadows numberless,
Singest of summer in full-throated ease. 10

2.

O, for a draught of vintage! that hath been
Cool’d a long age in the deep-delved earth,
Tasting of Flora and the country green,
Dance, and Provencal song, and sunburnt mirth!
O for a beaker full of the warm South, 15
Full of the true, the blushful Hippocrene,
With beaded bubbles winking at the brim,
And purple-stained mouth;
That I might drink, and leave the world unseen,
And with thee fade away into the forest dim: 20

3.

Fade far away, dissolve, and quite forget
What thou among the leaves hast never known,
The weariness, the fever, and the fret
Here, where men sit and hear each other groan;
Where palsy shakes a few, sad, last gray hairs, 25
Where youth grows pale, and spectre-thin, and dies;
Where but to think is to be full of sorrow
And leaden-eyed despairs,
Where Beauty cannot keep her lustrous eyes,
Or new Love pine at them beyond to-morrow. 30

4.

Away! away! for I will fly to thee,
Not charioted by Bacchus and his pards,
But on the viewless wings of Poesy,
Though the dull brain perplexes and retards:
Already with thee! tender is the night, 35
And haply the Queen-Moon is on her throne,
Cluster’d around by all her starry Fays;
But here there is no light,
Save what from heaven is with the breezes blown
Through verdurous glooms and winding mossy ways. 40

5.

I cannot see what flowers are at my feet,
Nor what soft incense hangs upon the boughs,
But, in embalmed darkness, guess each sweet
Wherewith the seasonable month endows
The grass, the thicket, and the fruit-tree wild; 45
White hawthorn, and the pastoral eglantine;
Fast fading violets cover’d up in leaves;
And mid-May’s eldest child,
The coming musk-rose, full of dewy wine,
The murmurous haunt of flies on summer eves. 50

6.

Darkling I listen; and, for many a time
I have been half in love with easeful Death,
Call’d him soft names in many a mused rhyme,
To take into the air my quiet breath;
Now more than ever seems it rich to die, 55
To cease upon the midnight with no pain,
While thou art pouring forth thy soul abroad
In such an ecstasy!
Still wouldst thou sing, and I have ears in vain—
To thy high requiem become a sod. 60

7.

Thou wast not born for death, immortal Bird!
No hungry generations tread thee down;
The voice I hear this passing night was heard
In ancient days by emperor and clown:
Perhaps the self-same song that found a path 65
Through the sad heart of Ruth, when, sick for home,
She stood in tears amid the alien corn;
The same that oft-times hath
Charm’d magic casements, opening on the foam
Of perilous seas, in faery lands forlorn. 70

8.

Forlorn! the very word is like a bell
To toil me back from thee to my sole self!
Adieu! the fancy cannot cheat so well
As she is fam’d to do, deceiving elf.
Adieu! adieu! thy plaintive anthem fades 75
Past the near meadows, over the still stream,
Up the hill-side; and now ’tis buried deep
In the next valley-glades:
Was it a vision, or a waking dream?
Fled is that music:—Do I wake or sleep?

Y aquí su famosa tumba romana, donde yace lo que de mortal tiene aquel cuyo nombre se escribió en el agua:

 

[Jacques de Molay]

JOHN KEATS

Oda a un Ruiseñor


Me duele el corazón y un pesado letargo
aflige a mis sentidos, tal si hubiera bebido
cicuta o apurado un opiato hace sólo
un instante y me hubiera sumido en el Leteo:
y esto no es porque tenga envidia de tu suerte,
sino porque feliz me siento con tu dicha
cuando, ligera dríade alada de los árboles,
en algún melodioso lugar de verdes hayas
e innumerables sombras
brota en el estío tu canto enajenado.



¡Oh, si un trago de vino largo tiempo enfriado
en las profundas cuevas de la tierra
que supiera a Flora y a la verde campiña,
canciones provenzales, sol, danza y regocijo;
oh, si una copa de caliente sur,
llena de la mismísima, ruborosa Hipocrene,
ensartadas burbujas titilando en los bordes,
purpúrea la boca: si pudiera beber
y abandonar el mundo inadvertido
y junto a ti perderme por el oscuro bosque!



Perderme a lo lejos, deshacerme, olvidar
que entre las hojas tú nunca has conocido
la inquietud, el cansancio y la fiebre
aquí, donde los hombres tan sólo se lamentan
y tiemblan de parálisis postreras, tristes canas,
donde crecen los jóvenes como espectros y mueren,
donde aun el pensamiento se llena de tristeza
y de desesperanzas, donde ni la Belleza
puede salvaguardar sus luminosos ojos
por los que el nuevo amor perece sin mañana.



¡Lejos! ¡Muy lejos! He de volar hacia ti.
No me conducirán leopardos de Baco
sino unas invisibles y poéticas alas;
aunque torpe y confusa se retrase mi mente:
¡ya estoy contigo! Suave es la noche
y tal vez en su trono aparezca la luna
circundada de mágicas estrellas.
Pero aquí no hay luz, salvo la que acompaña
desde el cielo el soplo de la brisa cruzando
el oscuro verdor y veredas de musgo.



No puedo ver qué flores hay a mis pies
ni el blando incienso suspendido en las ramas,
pero en la embalsamada oscuridad presiento
cada uno de los dones con los que la estación
dota a la hierba, los árboles silvestres, la espesura:
pastoril eglantina y blanco espino,
violetas marcesibles recubiertas de hojas
y el primer nuevo brote de mediados de mayo,
la rosa del almizcle rociada de vino,
morada rumorosa de moscas en verano.




A oscuras escucho. Y en más de una ocasión
he amado el alivio que depara la muerte
invocándola con ternura en versos meditados
para que disipara en el aire mi aliento.
Ahora más que nunca morir parece dulce,
dejar de existir sin pena a medianoche
¡mientras se te derrama afuera el alma
en semejante éxtasis! Seguiría tu canto
y te habría escuchado yo en vano:
a tu requiem conviene un pedazo de tierra.



¡No conoces la muerte, Pájaro inmortal!
No te hollará caído generación hambrienta.
La voz que ahora escucho mientras pasa la noche
fue oída en otros tiempos por reyes y bufones;
tal vez fuera este mismo canto el que una senda
encontró en el triste corazón de Ruth, cuando
enferma de añoranza, se sumía en el llanto
rodeada de trigos extranjeros,
la misma que otras veces ha encantado mágicas
ventanas que se abren a peligrosos mares
en prodigiosas tierras ya olvidadas.



¡Olvidadas! El mismo tañer de esta palabra
me devuelve, ya lejos de ti, a mi soledad.
¡Adiós! La Fantasía no consigue engañarnos
tanto, duende falaz, como dice la fama.
¡Adiós! Tu lastimero himno se desvanece
al pasar por los prados vecinos, el tranquilo
arroyo y la colina; ahora es enterrado
en los calveros del cercano valle.
¿He soñado despierto o ha sido una visión?
Ha volado la música. ¿Estoy despierto o duermo?



Y en la lengua de Shakespeare:


Ode to a Nightingale


1.

MY heart aches, and a drowsy numbness pains
My sense, as though of hemlock I had drunk,
Or emptied some dull opiate to the drains
One minute past, and Lethe-wards had sunk:
’Tis not through envy of thy happy lot, 5
But being too happy in thine happiness,—
That thou, light-winged Dryad of the trees,
In some melodious plot
Of beechen green, and shadows numberless,
Singest of summer in full-throated ease. 10

2.

O, for a draught of vintage! that hath been
Cool’d a long age in the deep-delved earth,
Tasting of Flora and the country green,
Dance, and Provencal song, and sunburnt mirth!
O for a beaker full of the warm South, 15
Full of the true, the blushful Hippocrene,
With beaded bubbles winking at the brim,
And purple-stained mouth;
That I might drink, and leave the world unseen,
And with thee fade away into the forest dim: 20

3.

Fade far away, dissolve, and quite forget
What thou among the leaves hast never known,
The weariness, the fever, and the fret
Here, where men sit and hear each other groan;
Where palsy shakes a few, sad, last gray hairs, 25
Where youth grows pale, and spectre-thin, and dies;
Where but to think is to be full of sorrow
And leaden-eyed despairs,
Where Beauty cannot keep her lustrous eyes,
Or new Love pine at them beyond to-morrow. 30

4.

Away! away! for I will fly to thee,
Not charioted by Bacchus and his pards,
But on the viewless wings of Poesy,
Though the dull brain perplexes and retards:
Already with thee! tender is the night, 35
And haply the Queen-Moon is on her throne,
Cluster’d around by all her starry Fays;
But here there is no light,
Save what from heaven is with the breezes blown
Through verdurous glooms and winding mossy ways. 40

5.

I cannot see what flowers are at my feet,
Nor what soft incense hangs upon the boughs,
But, in embalmed darkness, guess each sweet
Wherewith the seasonable month endows
The grass, the thicket, and the fruit-tree wild; 45
White hawthorn, and the pastoral eglantine;
Fast fading violets cover’d up in leaves;
And mid-May’s eldest child,
The coming musk-rose, full of dewy wine,
The murmurous haunt of flies on summer eves. 50

6.

Darkling I listen; and, for many a time
I have been half in love with easeful Death,
Call’d him soft names in many a mused rhyme,
To take into the air my quiet breath;
Now more than ever seems it rich to die, 55
To cease upon the midnight with no pain,
While thou art pouring forth thy soul abroad
In such an ecstasy!
Still wouldst thou sing, and I have ears in vain—
To thy high requiem become a sod. 60

7.

Thou wast not born for death, immortal Bird!
No hungry generations tread thee down;
The voice I hear this passing night was heard
In ancient days by emperor and clown:
Perhaps the self-same song that found a path 65
Through the sad heart of Ruth, when, sick for home,
She stood in tears amid the alien corn;
The same that oft-times hath
Charm’d magic casements, opening on the foam
Of perilous seas, in faery lands forlorn. 70

8.

Forlorn! the very word is like a bell
To toil me back from thee to my sole self!
Adieu! the fancy cannot cheat so well
As she is fam’d to do, deceiving elf.
Adieu! adieu! thy plaintive anthem fades 75
Past the near meadows, over the still stream,
Up the hill-side; and now ’tis buried deep
In the next valley-glades:
Was it a vision, or a waking dream?
Fled is that music:—Do I wake or sleep?

Y aquí su famosa tumba romana, donde yace lo que de mortal tiene aquel cuyo nombre se escribió en el agua:

 

[Prathe]

A oscuras escucho. Y en más de una ocasión
he amado el alivio que depara la muerte
invocándola con ternura en versos meditados
para que disipara en el aire mi aliento.


Sublime.

 

[Prathe]

A oscuras escucho. Y en más de una ocasión
he amado el alivio que depara la muerte
invocándola con ternura en versos meditados
para que disipara en el aire mi aliento.


Sublime.

 

[Jacques de Molay]

Más de Keats:

ODA A UNA URNA GRIEGA

Tú, aún inviolable novia de la quietud,
tú, hija adoptiva del silencio y del tiempo tardío,
narrador silvestre, que así expresa
una historia florida mejor que nuestras rimas:
¿Qué leyenda frondosa persigue tu forma
de dioses o mortales, o de ambos,
en Tempe o en los valles de la Arcadia?
¿Qué hombres o dioses son esos? ¿Qué doncellas remisas?
¿Qué persecución demente? ¿Qué lucha para escapar?
¿Qué flautas y timbales? ¿Qué salvaje éxtasis?

Dulces son las melodías escuchadas, pero aquellas no escuchadas
son más dulces: por lo tanto, ustedes suaves flautas, toquen;
no a los sensuales oídos, pero, más querido,
toquen al espíritu canciones sin sonido:
¡Bella juventud, tras de los árboles, no puedes abandonar
tu canto, ni nunca pueden esos árboles estar desnudos;
audaz Amante, nunca, nunca la besarás,
aunque casi lo hagas-mas no sufras;
ella no puede irse, aunque no tienes tu felicidad
por siempre amarás, y ella por siempre será hermosa!

Ah, ramas afortunadas, afortunadas que no pueden perder
tus hojas, ni nunca decir adiós a la primavera.
Y, feliz músico, infatigable,
tocando siempre canciones siempre nuevas.
Amor más feliz, más, más feliz,
siempre caluroso y aún sin disfrutar,
siempre anhelante y siempre joven;
lejos de toda la pasión humana que respira,
que deja un corazón muy doloroso y hastiado,
una ardiente frente, y una abrasante lengua.

¿Quiénes son esos que vienen al sacrificio?
¿A qué altar verde, oh misterioso sacerdote,
llevas esa novilla que le muge a los cielos
y toda su sedosa caderas con aureola vestidas?
¿Qué pequeño pueblo junto al río o la playa,
montañas construidas con ciudadela pacífica,
se ha quedado sin gente, esta pía mañana?
Y, pueblo pequeño, tus calles para siempre
estarán en silencio; y ni siquiera una alma para decir
por qué estás desolado, podrá volver.

¡Oh, pura forma ática, bella actitud, trenzada
de hombres de mármol y de doncellas excesivamente decorada,
con forestales ramas y la abrumada mala hierba!
Tú, silenciosa forma, nos inquietas
como hace la eternidad: ¡Pastoral fría!
Cuando la vejez esta generación derroche
tú permanecerás, en medio de otro infortunio,
siendo una amiga del hombre, a quien le dirás:
“La belleza es verdad; la verdad, belleza —esto es todo
lo que sabes sobre la tierra, y todo lo que necesitas saber”.

ODE ON A GRECIAN URN

Thou still unravished bride of quietness,
Thou foster child of silence and slow time,
Sylvan historian, who canst thus express
A flowery tale more sweetly than our rhyme:
What leaf-fringed legend haunts about thy shape
Of deities or mortals, or of both,
In Tempe or the dales of Arcady?
What men or gods are these? What maidens loath?
What mad pursuit? What struggle to escape?
What pipes and timbrels? What wild ecstasy?

Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard
Are sweeter; therefore, ye soft pipes, play on;
Not to the sensual ear, but, more endeared,
Pipe to the spirit dities of no tone.
Fair youth, beneath the trees, thou canst not leave
Thy song, nor ever can those trees be bare;
Bold Lover, never, never canst thou kiss,
Though winning near the goal---yet, do not grieve;
She cannot fade, though thou hast not thy bliss
Forever wilt thou love, and she be fair!

Ah, happy, happy boughs! that cannot shed
Your leaves, nor ever bid the Spring adieu;
And, happy melodist, unweari-ed,
Forever piping songs forever new;
More happy love! more happy, happy love!
Forever warm and still to be enjoyed,
Forever panting, and forever young;
All breathing human passion far above,
That leaves a heart high-sorrowful and cloyed,
A burning forehead, and a parching tongue.

Who are these coming to the sacrifice?
To what green altar, O mysterious priest,
Lead'st thou that heifer lowing at the skies,
And all her silken flanks with garlands dressed?
What little town by river or sea shore,
Or mountain-built with peaceful citadel,
Is emptied of this folk, this pious morn?
And, little town, thy streets for evermore
Will silent be; and not a soul to tell
Why thou art desolate, can e'er return.

O Attic shape! Fair attitude! with brede
Of marble men and maidens overwrought,
With forest branches and the trodden weed;
Thou, silent form, dost tease us out of thought
As doth eternity. Cold Pastoral!
When old age shall this generation waste,
Thou shalt remain, in midst of other woe
Than ours, a friend to man, to whom thou say'st,
"Beauty is truth, truth beauty"---that is all
Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know.

1820

 

[Jacques de Molay]

Más de Keats:

ODA A UNA URNA GRIEGA

Tú, aún inviolable novia de la quietud,
tú, hija adoptiva del silencio y del tiempo tardío,
narrador silvestre, que así expresa
una historia florida mejor que nuestras rimas:
¿Qué leyenda frondosa persigue tu forma
de dioses o mortales, o de ambos,
en Tempe o en los valles de la Arcadia?
¿Qué hombres o dioses son esos? ¿Qué doncellas remisas?
¿Qué persecución demente? ¿Qué lucha para escapar?
¿Qué flautas y timbales? ¿Qué salvaje éxtasis?

Dulces son las melodías escuchadas, pero aquellas no escuchadas
son más dulces: por lo tanto, ustedes suaves flautas, toquen;
no a los sensuales oídos, pero, más querido,
toquen al espíritu canciones sin sonido:
¡Bella juventud, tras de los árboles, no puedes abandonar
tu canto, ni nunca pueden esos árboles estar desnudos;
audaz Amante, nunca, nunca la besarás,
aunque casi lo hagas-mas no sufras;
ella no puede irse, aunque no tienes tu felicidad
por siempre amarás, y ella por siempre será hermosa!

Ah, ramas afortunadas, afortunadas que no pueden perder
tus hojas, ni nunca decir adiós a la primavera.
Y, feliz músico, infatigable,
tocando siempre canciones siempre nuevas.
Amor más feliz, más, más feliz,
siempre caluroso y aún sin disfrutar,
siempre anhelante y siempre joven;
lejos de toda la pasión humana que respira,
que deja un corazón muy doloroso y hastiado,
una ardiente frente, y una abrasante lengua.

¿Quiénes son esos que vienen al sacrificio?
¿A qué altar verde, oh misterioso sacerdote,
llevas esa novilla que le muge a los cielos
y toda su sedosa caderas con aureola vestidas?
¿Qué pequeño pueblo junto al río o la playa,
montañas construidas con ciudadela pacífica,
se ha quedado sin gente, esta pía mañana?
Y, pueblo pequeño, tus calles para siempre
estarán en silencio; y ni siquiera una alma para decir
por qué estás desolado, podrá volver.

¡Oh, pura forma ática, bella actitud, trenzada
de hombres de mármol y de doncellas excesivamente decorada,
con forestales ramas y la abrumada mala hierba!
Tú, silenciosa forma, nos inquietas
como hace la eternidad: ¡Pastoral fría!
Cuando la vejez esta generación derroche
tú permanecerás, en medio de otro infortunio,
siendo una amiga del hombre, a quien le dirás:
“La belleza es verdad; la verdad, belleza —esto es todo
lo que sabes sobre la tierra, y todo lo que necesitas saber”.

ODE ON A GRECIAN URN

Thou still unravished bride of quietness,
Thou foster child of silence and slow time,
Sylvan historian, who canst thus express
A flowery tale more sweetly than our rhyme:
What leaf-fringed legend haunts about thy shape
Of deities or mortals, or of both,
In Tempe or the dales of Arcady?
What men or gods are these? What maidens loath?
What mad pursuit? What struggle to escape?
What pipes and timbrels? What wild ecstasy?

Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard
Are sweeter; therefore, ye soft pipes, play on;
Not to the sensual ear, but, more endeared,
Pipe to the spirit dities of no tone.
Fair youth, beneath the trees, thou canst not leave
Thy song, nor ever can those trees be bare;
Bold Lover, never, never canst thou kiss,
Though winning near the goal---yet, do not grieve;
She cannot fade, though thou hast not thy bliss
Forever wilt thou love, and she be fair!

Ah, happy, happy boughs! that cannot shed
Your leaves, nor ever bid the Spring adieu;
And, happy melodist, unweari-ed,
Forever piping songs forever new;
More happy love! more happy, happy love!
Forever warm and still to be enjoyed,
Forever panting, and forever young;
All breathing human passion far above,
That leaves a heart high-sorrowful and cloyed,
A burning forehead, and a parching tongue.

Who are these coming to the sacrifice?
To what green altar, O mysterious priest,
Lead'st thou that heifer lowing at the skies,
And all her silken flanks with garlands dressed?
What little town by river or sea shore,
Or mountain-built with peaceful citadel,
Is emptied of this folk, this pious morn?
And, little town, thy streets for evermore
Will silent be; and not a soul to tell
Why thou art desolate, can e'er return.

O Attic shape! Fair attitude! with brede
Of marble men and maidens overwrought,
With forest branches and the trodden weed;
Thou, silent form, dost tease us out of thought
As doth eternity. Cold Pastoral!
When old age shall this generation waste,
Thou shalt remain, in midst of other woe
Than ours, a friend to man, to whom thou say'st,
"Beauty is truth, truth beauty"---that is all
Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know.

1820

 

[Jacques de Molay]

Como ignorante profunda del inglés, les agradecería la traducción.

Por mi parte, he cumplido.
Te he traducido los dos poemas de Shelley del post inicial.

 

[Jacques de Molay]

Como ignorante profunda del inglés, les agradecería la traducción.

Por mi parte, he cumplido.
Te he traducido los dos poemas de Shelley del post inicial.

 

[Ramon Llull]

Un poco de Byron.

Solitude

To sit on rocks, to muse o'er flood and fell,
To slowly trace the forest's shady scene,
Where things that own not man's dominion dwell,
And mortal foot hath ne'er or rarely been;
To climb the trackless mountain all unseen,
With the wild flock that never needs a fold;
Alone o'er steeps and foaming falls to lean;
This is not solitude, 'tis but to hold
Converse with Nature's charms, and view her stores unrolled.

But midst the crowd, the hurry, the shock of men,
To hear, to see, to feel and to possess,
And roam alone, the world's tired denizen,
With none who bless us, none whom we can bless;
Minions of splendour shrinking from distress!
None that, with kindred consciousness endued,
If we were not, would seem to smile the less
Of all the flattered, followed, sought and sued;
This is to be alone; this, this is solitude!


To Thomas Moore

My boat is on the shore,
And my bark is on the sea;
But, before I go, Tom Moore,
Here's a double health to thee!

Here's a sigh to those who love me,
And a smile to those who hate;
And, whatever sky's above me,
Here's a heart for every fate.

Though the ocean roar around me,
Yet it still shall bear me on;
Though a desert should surround me,
It hath springs that may be won.

Were't the last drop in the well,
As I gasp'd upon the brink,
Ere my fainting spirit fell,
'Tis to thee that I would drink.

With that water, as this wine,
The libation I would pour
Should be -peace with thine and mine,
And a health to thee, Tom Moore!


Si es que sólo falta un cuadro de Friedrich o Turner, hostias

Prathe, estoy buscando traducciones mínimamente fumables. Tiempo al tiempo.

 

[Ramon Llull]

Un poco de Byron.

Solitude

To sit on rocks, to muse o'er flood and fell,
To slowly trace the forest's shady scene,
Where things that own not man's dominion dwell,
And mortal foot hath ne'er or rarely been;
To climb the trackless mountain all unseen,
With the wild flock that never needs a fold;
Alone o'er steeps and foaming falls to lean;
This is not solitude, 'tis but to hold
Converse with Nature's charms, and view her stores unrolled.

But midst the crowd, the hurry, the shock of men,
To hear, to see, to feel and to possess,
And roam alone, the world's tired denizen,
With none who bless us, none whom we can bless;
Minions of splendour shrinking from distress!
None that, with kindred consciousness endued,
If we were not, would seem to smile the less
Of all the flattered, followed, sought and sued;
This is to be alone; this, this is solitude!


To Thomas Moore

My boat is on the shore,
And my bark is on the sea;
But, before I go, Tom Moore,
Here's a double health to thee!

Here's a sigh to those who love me,
And a smile to those who hate;
And, whatever sky's above me,
Here's a heart for every fate.

Though the ocean roar around me,
Yet it still shall bear me on;
Though a desert should surround me,
It hath springs that may be won.

Were't the last drop in the well,
As I gasp'd upon the brink,
Ere my fainting spirit fell,
'Tis to thee that I would drink.

With that water, as this wine,
The libation I would pour
Should be -peace with thine and mine,
And a health to thee, Tom Moore!


Si es que sólo falta un cuadro de Friedrich o Turner, hostias

Prathe, estoy buscando traducciones mínimamente fumables. Tiempo al tiempo.

 

[Prathe]

Gracias Maese de Molay

Edito: Gracias también a vos, Don Ramón

 

[Prathe]

Gracias Maese de Molay

Edito: Gracias también a vos, Don Ramón

 

[Prathe]

Que ni pintada!

 

[Prathe]

Que ni pintada!

 

[Jacques de Molay]

SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE:

KUBLA KHAN

O una visión en un sueño

EN Xanadú, Kubla Khan
mandó que levantaran su cúpula señera:
allí donde discurre Alfa, el río sagrado,
por cavernas que nunca ha sondeado el hombre,
hacia una mar que el sol no alcanza nunca.
Dos veces cinco millas de tierra muy feraz
ciñeron de altas torres y murallas:
y había allí jardines con brillo de arroyuelos,
donde, abundoso, el árbol de incienso florecía,
y bosques viejos como las colinas
cercando los rincones de verde soleado.

¡Oh sima de misterio, que se abría
bajo la verde loma, cruzando entre los cedros!
Era un lugar salvaje, tan sacro y hechizado
como el que frecuentara, bajo menguante luna,
una mujer, gimiendo de amor por un espíritu.
Y del abismo hirviente y con fragores
sin fin, cual si la tierra jadeara,
hízose que brotara un agua caudalosa,
entre cuyo manar veloz e intermitente
se enlazaban fragmentos enormes, a manera
de granizo o de mieses que el trillador separa:
y en medio de las rocas danzantes, para siempre,
lanzóse el sacro río.
Cinco millas de sierpe, como en un laberinto,
siguió el sagrado río por valles y collados,
hacia aquellas cavernas que no ha medido el hombre,
y hundióse con fragor en una mar sin vida:
y en medio del estruendo, oyó Kubla, lejanas,
las voces de otros tiempos, augurio de la guerra.

La sombra de la cúpula deliciosa flotaba
encima de las ondas,
y allí se oía aquel rumor mezclado
del agua y las cavernas.
¡Oh, singular, maravillosa fábrica:
sobre heladas cavernas la cúpula de sol!

Un día, en mis ensueños,
una joven con un salterio aparecía
llegaba de Abisinia esa doncella
y pulsaba el salterio;
cantando las montañas de Aboré.
Si revivir lograra en mis entrañas
su música y su canto,
tal fuera mi delicia,
que con la melodía potente y sostenida
alzaría en el aire aquella cúpula,
la cúpula de sol y las cuevas de hielo.
Y cuantos me escucharan las verían
y todos clamarían: «¡Deteneos!
¡Ved sus ojos de llama y su cabello loco!
Tres círculos trazad en torno suyo
y los ojos cerrad con miedo sacro,
pues se nutrió con néctar de las flores
y la leche probó del Paraíso».

Kubla Khan

A vision in a dream

In Xanadu did Kubla Khan
A stately pleasure-dome decree :
Where Alph, the sacred river, ran
Through caverns measureless to man
Down to a sunless sea.
So twice five miles of fertile ground
With walls and towers were girdled round :
And there were gardens bright with sinuous rills,
Where blossomed many an incense-bearing tree ;
And here were forests ancient as the hills,
Enfolding sunny spots of greenery.

But oh ! that deep romantic chasm which slanted
Down the green hill athwart a cedarn cover !
A savage place ! as holy and enchanted
As e'er beneath a waning moon was haunted
By woman wailing for her demon-lover !
And from this chasm, with ceaseless turmoil seething,
As if this earth in fast thick pants were breathing,
A mighty fountain momently was forced :
Amid whose swift half-intermitted burst
Huge fragments vaulted like rebounding hail,
Or chaffy grain beneath the thresher's flail :
And 'mid these dancing rocks at once and ever
It flung up momently the sacred river.
Five miles meandering with a mazy motion
Through wood and dale the sacred river ran,
Then reached the caverns measureless to man,
And sank in tumult to a lifeless ocean :
And 'mid this tumult Kubla heard from far
Ancestral voices prophesying war !
The shadow of the dome of pleasure
Floated midway on the waves ;
Where was heard the mingled measure
From the fountain and the caves.
It was a miracle of rare device,
A sunny pleasure-dome with caves of ice !
A damsel with a dulcimer
In a vision once I saw :
It was an Abyssinian maid,
And on her dulcimer she played,
Singing of Mount Abora.
Could I revive within me
Her symphony and song,
To such a deep delight 'twould win me,
That with music loud and long,
I would build that dome in air,
That sunny dome ! those caves of ice !
And all who heard should see them there,
And all should cry, Beware ! Beware !
His flashing eyes, his floating hair !
Weave a circle round him thrice,
And close your eyes with holy dread,
For he on honey-dew hath fed,
And drunk the milk of Paradise.


The following fragment is here published at the request of a poet of great and deserved celebrity [Lord Byron], and, as far as the Author's own opinions are concerned, rather as a psychological curiosity, than on the ground of any supposed poetic merits.

In the summer of the year 1797, the Author, then in ill health, had retired to a lonely farm-house between Porlock and Linton, on the Exmoor confines of Somerset and Devonshire. In consequence of a slight indisposition, an anodyne had been prescribed, from the effects of which he fell asleep in his chair at the moment that he was reading the following sentence, or words of the same substance, in Purchas's Pilgrimage: ``Here the Khan Kubla commanded a palace to be built, and a stately garden thereunto. And thus ten miles of fertile ground were inclosed with a wall.'' The Author continued for about three hours in a profound sleep, at least of the external senses, during which time he has the most vivid confidence, that he could not have composed less than from two to three hundred lines; if that indeed can be called composition in which all the images rose up before him as things, with a parallel production of the correspondent expressions, without any sensation or consciousness of effort. On awakening he appeared to himself to have a distinct recollection of the whole, and taking his pen, ink, and paper, instantly and eagerly wrote down the lines that are here preserved. At this moment he was unfortunately called out by a person on business from Porlock, and detained by him above an hour, and on his return to his room, found, to his no small surprise and mortification, that though he still retained some vague and dim recollection of the general purport of the vision, yet, with the exception of some eight or ten scattered lines and images, all the rest had passed away like the images on the surface of a stream into which a stone has been cast, but, alas! without the after restoration of the latter!

Then all the charm
Is broken--all that phantom-world so fair
Vanishes, and a thousand circlets spread,
And each mis-shape the other. Stay awile,
Poor youth! who scarcely dar'st lift up thine eyes--
The stream will soon renew its smoothness, soon
The visions will return! And lo, he stays,
And soon the fragments dim of lovely forms
Come trembling back, unite, and now once more
The pool becomes a mirror.

Yet from the still surviving recollections in his mind, the Author has frequently purposed to finish for himself what had been originally, as it were, given to him. Sameron adion aso: but the to-morrow is yet to come.

PD: La nota final en inglés sobre la génesis del poema no la traduzco.

 

[Jacques de Molay]

SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE:

KUBLA KHAN

O una visión en un sueño

EN Xanadú, Kubla Khan
mandó que levantaran su cúpula señera:
allí donde discurre Alfa, el río sagrado,
por cavernas que nunca ha sondeado el hombre,
hacia una mar que el sol no alcanza nunca.
Dos veces cinco millas de tierra muy feraz
ciñeron de altas torres y murallas:
y había allí jardines con brillo de arroyuelos,
donde, abundoso, el árbol de incienso florecía,
y bosques viejos como las colinas
cercando los rincones de verde soleado.

¡Oh sima de misterio, que se abría
bajo la verde loma, cruzando entre los cedros!
Era un lugar salvaje, tan sacro y hechizado
como el que frecuentara, bajo menguante luna,
una mujer, gimiendo de amor por un espíritu.
Y del abismo hirviente y con fragores
sin fin, cual si la tierra jadeara,
hízose que brotara un agua caudalosa,
entre cuyo manar veloz e intermitente
se enlazaban fragmentos enormes, a manera
de granizo o de mieses que el trillador separa:
y en medio de las rocas danzantes, para siempre,
lanzóse el sacro río.
Cinco millas de sierpe, como en un laberinto,
siguió el sagrado río por valles y collados,
hacia aquellas cavernas que no ha medido el hombre,
y hundióse con fragor en una mar sin vida:
y en medio del estruendo, oyó Kubla, lejanas,
las voces de otros tiempos, augurio de la guerra.

La sombra de la cúpula deliciosa flotaba
encima de las ondas,
y allí se oía aquel rumor mezclado
del agua y las cavernas.
¡Oh, singular, maravillosa fábrica:
sobre heladas cavernas la cúpula de sol!

Un día, en mis ensueños,
una joven con un salterio aparecía
llegaba de Abisinia esa doncella
y pulsaba el salterio;
cantando las montañas de Aboré.
Si revivir lograra en mis entrañas
su música y su canto,
tal fuera mi delicia,
que con la melodía potente y sostenida
alzaría en el aire aquella cúpula,
la cúpula de sol y las cuevas de hielo.
Y cuantos me escucharan las verían
y todos clamarían: «¡Deteneos!
¡Ved sus ojos de llama y su cabello loco!
Tres círculos trazad en torno suyo
y los ojos cerrad con miedo sacro,
pues se nutrió con néctar de las flores
y la leche probó del Paraíso».

Kubla Khan

A vision in a dream

In Xanadu did Kubla Khan
A stately pleasure-dome decree :
Where Alph, the sacred river, ran
Through caverns measureless to man
Down to a sunless sea.
So twice five miles of fertile ground
With walls and towers were girdled round :
And there were gardens bright with sinuous rills,
Where blossomed many an incense-bearing tree ;
And here were forests ancient as the hills,
Enfolding sunny spots of greenery.

But oh ! that deep romantic chasm which slanted
Down the green hill athwart a cedarn cover !
A savage place ! as holy and enchanted
As e'er beneath a waning moon was haunted
By woman wailing for her demon-lover !
And from this chasm, with ceaseless turmoil seething,
As if this earth in fast thick pants were breathing,
A mighty fountain momently was forced :
Amid whose swift half-intermitted burst
Huge fragments vaulted like rebounding hail,
Or chaffy grain beneath the thresher's flail :
And 'mid these dancing rocks at once and ever
It flung up momently the sacred river.
Five miles meandering with a mazy motion
Through wood and dale the sacred river ran,
Then reached the caverns measureless to man,
And sank in tumult to a lifeless ocean :
And 'mid this tumult Kubla heard from far
Ancestral voices prophesying war !
The shadow of the dome of pleasure
Floated midway on the waves ;
Where was heard the mingled measure
From the fountain and the caves.
It was a miracle of rare device,
A sunny pleasure-dome with caves of ice !
A damsel with a dulcimer
In a vision once I saw :
It was an Abyssinian maid,
And on her dulcimer she played,
Singing of Mount Abora.
Could I revive within me
Her symphony and song,
To such a deep delight 'twould win me,
That with music loud and long,
I would build that dome in air,
That sunny dome ! those caves of ice !
And all who heard should see them there,
And all should cry, Beware ! Beware !
His flashing eyes, his floating hair !
Weave a circle round him thrice,
And close your eyes with holy dread,
For he on honey-dew hath fed,
And drunk the milk of Paradise.


The following fragment is here published at the request of a poet of great and deserved celebrity [Lord Byron], and, as far as the Author's own opinions are concerned, rather as a psychological curiosity, than on the ground of any supposed poetic merits.

In the summer of the year 1797, the Author, then in ill health, had retired to a lonely farm-house between Porlock and Linton, on the Exmoor confines of Somerset and Devonshire. In consequence of a slight indisposition, an anodyne had been prescribed, from the effects of which he fell asleep in his chair at the moment that he was reading the following sentence, or words of the same substance, in Purchas's Pilgrimage: ``Here the Khan Kubla commanded a palace to be built, and a stately garden thereunto. And thus ten miles of fertile ground were inclosed with a wall.'' The Author continued for about three hours in a profound sleep, at least of the external senses, during which time he has the most vivid confidence, that he could not have composed less than from two to three hundred lines; if that indeed can be called composition in which all the images rose up before him as things, with a parallel production of the correspondent expressions, without any sensation or consciousness of effort. On awakening he appeared to himself to have a distinct recollection of the whole, and taking his pen, ink, and paper, instantly and eagerly wrote down the lines that are here preserved. At this moment he was unfortunately called out by a person on business from Porlock, and detained by him above an hour, and on his return to his room, found, to his no small surprise and mortification, that though he still retained some vague and dim recollection of the general purport of the vision, yet, with the exception of some eight or ten scattered lines and images, all the rest had passed away like the images on the surface of a stream into which a stone has been cast, but, alas! without the after restoration of the latter!

Then all the charm
Is broken--all that phantom-world so fair
Vanishes, and a thousand circlets spread,
And each mis-shape the other. Stay awile,
Poor youth! who scarcely dar'st lift up thine eyes--
The stream will soon renew its smoothness, soon
The visions will return! And lo, he stays,
And soon the fragments dim of lovely forms
Come trembling back, unite, and now once more
The pool becomes a mirror.

Yet from the still surviving recollections in his mind, the Author has frequently purposed to finish for himself what had been originally, as it were, given to him. Sameron adion aso: but the to-morrow is yet to come.

PD: La nota final en inglés sobre la génesis del poema no la traduzco.

 

[Jacques de Molay]

Como me ha parecido cojonuda la idea de poner cuadros representativos del movimiento romántico, ahí va:

Todo un clásico de la pintura romántica, "The Nightmare" ("La pesadilla"), de Henry Fuseli:

Y en otra versión:

Nótese, que junto al íncubo que oprime el pecho de la durmiente. La pesadilla se manifiesta como una Yegua infernal.
Eso viene de la etimología (errónea) de la pesadilla: Night Mare. La yegua de la noche.

 

[Jacques de Molay]

Como me ha parecido cojonuda la idea de poner cuadros representativos del movimiento romántico, ahí va:

Todo un clásico de la pintura romántica, "The Nightmare" ("La pesadilla"), de Henry Fuseli:

Y en otra versión:

Nótese, que junto al íncubo que oprime el pecho de la durmiente. La pesadilla se manifiesta como una Yegua infernal.
Eso viene de la etimología (errónea) de la pesadilla: Night Mare. La yegua de la noche.

 

[Ramon Llull]

Permítanme este momento de evasión, adorados contertulios...divino Caspar David: la insignificancia humana frente a la omnipotente y eterna naturaleza.

 

[Ramon Llull]

Permítanme este momento de evasión, adorados contertulios...divino Caspar David: la insignificancia humana frente a la omnipotente y eterna naturaleza.

 

[Prathe]

Otro Fuseli: