Dětství

Na lukách s vůní medovou
já v dětství tak šťasten byl,
v pasekách s trávou vysokou,
že býk se do ní skryl.

Tu volal každý keř u cesty:
«Pojď, spolu si pohrajem.
Opatrně mne obejdi
a uvidíš, kdo vlastně jsem.»

Jen divoký vítr podzimní
často hru překazil nám,
srdce mi tlouklo blaženě,
já věřil, že umírám.

Ne sám, se mnou druh, tak drahý mi,
devětsil, lopucha s ním.
A za nebesy dálnými
že všemu porozumím.

A proto mám rád bitev rozmary,
hrom děl když k útoku řve,
že lidská krev není mi světější,
než trav šťávy smaragdové.

Другие переводы:

Английский
Бартон Раффел, Алла Бураго
Сhildhood
Артур Лехман
Childhood
Польский
Тадеуш Рубникович
Dzieciństwo
Чешский
Ярослав Кабичек
Dětství
Новонорвежский
Ю Эгген
Barndom

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The ship

"What d' you see in my eyes, slightly sparkling, / In my look, hazed with opaque mist?" / "There I saw the sea's deepest darkness / With a big sunken beautiful ship. / / That fine ship... More glorious and braver / None had seen over deep of the sea. / Its high masts under windbreath ...

A fragment of «Tale of Kings»

Once a dark horseman oh a black horse came / He was clad in a black velvet cloak, full of pride. / And his look was so dreadful, as a town aflame, / And so glaring as a flash in the night. / / Curly hair upon shoulders like serpents did twist, / And his voice was a song of the earth and...

Giraffe

Today, I can see that your glance is especially sad, / And hands are especially thin and the hair if up fluff. / Hey, listen, as far as in Africa, down at lake Chad / Is walking a graceful Giraffe. / / He's owing that elegance, slender and languor he is, / Such beautiful patterns are sh...

The Gates of Paradise

There are no seven diamond seals to close / the eternal gates of God's great paradise / it has no tempting charms, no beckoning glow / and to the people remains unrecognized. / / a doorway in a wall long since forsaken / a mass of stones and moss and nothing more. / nearby, a beggar, ...

A portrait of a man

His eyes are lightless underground lakes, / Abandoned castles of the ancient kings. / Marked with the sign of the eternal shame / Of that, the Other One, he never speaks. / The deepest wound, his mouth, dark and purple, / Made with a blade borne of the deadly poison; / And it is sad and ...

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