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Robert Browning
DEAF
AND DUMB
A GROUP BY WOOLNER
Only
the prism’s obstruction shows aright
The
secret of a sunbeam, breaks its light
Into the jewelled bow from
blankest white;
So may a glory from defect arise:
Only by
Deafness may the vexed Love wreak
Its insuppressive sense on brow
and cheek,
Only by Dumbness adequately speak
As
favoured mouth could never, through the eyes.
EURYDICE TO
ORPHEUS
A PICTURE BY LEIGHTON
But
give them me, the mouth, the eyes, the brow!
Let
them once more absorb me! One look know
Will lap me round for
ever, not to pass
Out of its light, though darkness lie
beyond:
Hold
me but safe again within the bond
Of one immortal look! All woe
that was,
Forgotten, and all terror that may be,
Defied,—no
past is mine, no future: look at me!
NOW
Out
of your whole life give but a moment!
All
of your life that has gone before,
All
to come after it,—so you ignore,
So you make perfect the
present,—condense,
In a rapture of rage, for perfection’s
endowment,
Thought and feeling and soul and sense—
Merged in
a moment which gives me at last
You around me for once, you
beneath me, above me—
Me—sure that despite of time future,
time past,—
This tick of our life-time’s one moment you love
me!
How long such suspension may linger? Ah, Sweet—
The
moment eternal—just that and no more—
When ecstasy’s
utmost we clutch at the core
While
cheeks burn, arms open, eyes shut and lips meet!
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Robert Browning es traducido por:
- Carlos Jiménez Arribas
Publicado
el 20/5/2010
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