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14.11.03 Linhas soltas - Deleuze Deleuze acredita que há três tipos diferentes de conexões: 1) linhas duras; 2) linhas flexíveis, algo como uma espécie de "loucura secreta"; e 3) linhas soltas, imprevisíveis, serpenteantes. No caso da poesia, o ritmo é que se torna o personagem, o próprio escrever os versos é que é o personagem. posted by LAURO MARQUES | 18:21 Comments: 13.11.03 Algernon Charles Swinburne (1837-1909) A Ballad of Death 1 Kneel down, fair Love, and fill thyself with tears, 2 Girdle thyself with sighing for a girth 3 Upon the sides of mirth, 4 Cover thy lips and eyelids, let thine ears 5 Be filled with rumour of people sorrowing; 6 Make thee soft raiment out of woven sighs 7 Upon the flesh to cleave, 8 Set pains therein and many a grievous thing, 9 And many sorrows after each his wise 10 For armlet and for gorget and for sleeve. 11 O Love's lute heard about the lands of death, 12 Left hanged upon the trees that were therein; 13 O Love and Time and Sin, 14 Three singing mouths that mourn now underbreath, 15 Three lovers, each one evil spoken of; 16 O smitten lips wherethrough this voice of mine 17 Came softer with her praise; 18 Abide a little for our lady's love. 19 The kisses of her mouth were more than wine, 20 And more than peace the passage of her days. 21 O Love, thou knowest if she were good to see. 22 O Time, thou shalt not find in any land 23 Till, cast out of thine hand, 24 The sunlight and the moonlight fail from thee, 25 Another woman fashioned like as this. 26 O Sin, thou knowest that all thy shame in her 27 Was made a goodly thing; 28 Yea, she caught Shame and shamed him with her kiss, 29 With her fair kiss, and lips much lovelier 30 Than lips of amorous roses in late spring. 31 By night there stood over against my bed 32 Queen Venus with a hood striped gold and black, 33 Both sides drawn fully back 34 From brows wherein the sad blood failed of red, 35 And temples drained of purple and full of death. 36 Her curled hair had the wave of sea-water 37 And the sea's gold in it. 38 Her eyes were as a dove's that sickeneth. 39 Strewn dust of gold she had shed over her, 40 And pearl and purple and amber on her feet. 41 Upon her raiment of dyed sendaline 42 Were painted all the secret ways of love 43 And covered things thereof, 44 That hold delight as grape-flowers hold their wine; 45 Red mouths of maidens and red feet of doves, 46 And brides that kept within the bride-chamber 47 Their garment of soft shame, 48 And weeping faces of the wearied loves 49 That swoon in sleep and awake wearier, 50 With heat of lips and hair shed out like flame. 51The tears that through her eyelids fell on me 52Made mine own bitter where they ran between 53As blood had fallen therein, 54She saying; Arise, lift up thine eyes and see 55If any glad thing be or any good 56Now the best thing is taken forth of us; 57Even she to whom all praise 58Was as one flower in a great multitude, 59One glorious flower of many and glorious, 60One day found gracious among many days: 61Even she whose handmaiden was Love--to whom 62At kissing times across her stateliest bed 63Kings bowed themselves and shed 64Pale wine, and honey with the honeycomb, 65And spikenard bruised for a burnt-offering; 66Even she between whose lips the kiss became 67As fire and frankincense; 68Whose hair was as gold raiment on a king, 69Whose eyes were as the morning purged with flame, 70Whose eyelids as sweet savour issuing thence. 71Then I beheld, and lo on the other side 72My lady's likeness crowned and robed and dead. 73Sweet still, but now not red, 74Was the shut mouth whereby men lived and died. 75And sweet, but emptied of the blood's blue shade, 76The great curled eyelids that withheld her eyes. 77And sweet, but like spoilt gold, 78The weight of colour in her tresses weighed. 79And sweet, but as a vesture with new dyes, 80The body that was clothed with love of old. 81Ah! that my tears filled all her woven hair 82And all the hollow bosom of her gown-- 83Ah! that my tears ran down 84Even to the place where many kisses were, 85Even where her parted breast-flowers have place, 86Even where they are cloven apart--who knows not this? 87Ah! the flowers cleave apart 88And their sweet fills the tender interspace; 89Ah! the leaves grown thereof were things to kiss 90Ere their fine gold was tarnished at the heart. 91Ah! in the days when God did good to me, 92Each part about her was a righteous thing; 93Her mouth an almsgiving, 94The glory of her garments charity, 95The beauty of her bosom a good deed, 96In the good days when God kept sight of us; 97Love lay upon her eyes, 98And on that hair whereof the world takes heed; 99And all her body was more virtuous 100Than souls of women fashioned otherwise. 101Now, ballad, gather poppies in thine hands 102And sheaves of brier and many rusted sheaves 103Rain-rotten in rank lands, 104Waste marigold and late unhappy leaves 105And grass that fades ere any of it be mown; 106And when thy bosom is filled full thereof 107Seek out Death's face ere the light altereth, 108And say "My master that was thrall to Love 109Is become thrall to Death." 110Bow down before him, ballad, sigh and groan. 111But make no sojourn in thy outgoing; 112For haply it may be 113That when thy feet return at evening 114Death shall come in with thee. Notes 10] gorget: ornamental neck-band. 11-12] Compare Psalms 137:1-2: "By the waters of Babylon, there we sat down and wept, when we remembered Zion. On the willows there we hung up our lyres." 19] Compare The Song of Solomon 1:2: "Let him kiss me with the kisses of his mouth: for thy love is better than wine." 41] sendaline: silk cloth. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Online text copyright © 2003, Ian Lancashire for the Department of English, University of Toronto. Published by the Web Development Group, Information Technology Services, University of Toronto Libraries. Original text: Swinburne's Collected Poetical Works, 2 vols. (London: William Heinemann, 1924): I, 4-7. First publication date: 1866 Publication date note: Algernon Charles Swinburne, Poems and Ballads (London: J. C. Hotten, 1866): 5-10. end S956 P644 1866b Fisher Rare Book Library (Toronto) RPO poem editor: P. F. Morgan RP edition: 3RP 3.370. Recent editing: 2:2002/5/2 Rhyme: abbacdecde -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Other poems by Algernon Charles Swinburne Your comments and questions are welcomed. All contents copyright © RPO Editors, Department of English, and University of Toronto Press 1994-2002 RPO is hosted by the University of Toronto Libraries. posted by LAURO MARQUES | 10:02 |
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