понеделник, 10 март 2014 г.

Rosalía de Castro in English

 


















When I think you gone...

Rosalía de Castro

When I think you gone, abruptly
it begins again - the haunting.
Dark penumbra that benumbs me
round my bed you circle, taunting.

When again I think you absent,
in the dark your shadow masses;
and you're somber in the starlight,
somber in the wind that passes.

Any song I hear - you sing it;
you're the mourner in all mourning;
you're the brook - its doleful murmur;
you're the deed of night - the dawning.

You're my all. My all and only.
Round me, in me, leaving never.
Dark penumbra that benumbs me -
you're my very self forever.

Translated from Spanish by
John Frederick Nims