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Fernando Pessoa - English heteronyms

This digital edition presents the transcription of the set of texts by English personalities invented by Fernando Pessoa that we have gathered here under the name “English heteronyms”. It includes texts signed by English heteronyms, texts in English signed by Portuguese heteronyms and English Poems by Pessoa. The documents transcribed are in Fernando Pessoa’s Archive in the custody of the National Library of Portugal, with quota E3. All facsimiles are accompanied by a critical lesson and a paleographic transcription, which is available for download in the “PDF” field.

 

Medium
F. Pessoa - Heterónimos ingleses
BNP/E3, 77 – 84
BNP/E3, 77 – 84
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Alexander Search
Identificação
Alexander Search – Heart-Music

[BNP/E3, 77 – 84]

 

Heart‑Music.

 

Leaning almost upon thy breast

I heard thy heart's life-made unrest...

 

And thy heart's beating has a sound

That reminds me of aught I heard long ago,

Long before this life, but what

I do not know, I do not know...

'Twas something going round and round

Something of terrible and of strange

That even now doth shake my soul.

I strive to remember - I fail, I fail

The unmemoried memory doth shake my soul.

‘Twas something terrible and strange,

Going round and going round,

And it had a sound like thy heart's beat...

The memory hangs on my soul's darkness

But notion from my mind doth fleet.

I remember but this: it went round and round

And now thy heart hath such a sound.

 

Alexander Search.

 

December 1905.

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Classificação
Literatura
Dados Físicos
Dados de produção
December 1905
Inglês
Dados de conservação
Biblioteca Nacional de Portugal
Palavras chave
Documentação Associada
Yvette Centeno, Fernando Pessoa: O Amor, a morte, a iniciação, Lisboa, A Regra do Jogo, 1985, p. 83.