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F. Pessoa - Heterónimos ingleses
BNP/E3, 79 – 32-36
BNP/E3, 79 – 32-36
Fernando Pessoa
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[ANEXO] – [Fragmento poético]

[BNP/E3, 79 – 32-36]

 

{…] They drunken with Nature’s {…} wine

Made weak and {…} souls braver far than mine.

_______

Know’st thou the sense which when {…} gleam

{…}     stream

Though having life but by a borrowed seeing they.

 

[33r]

 

Perfection’s hope a mad belief in what {…}

The future nought, ever unborn, may be

And man’s desire for good a fruitless agony.

_______

 

[34r]

 

{…} nature doth pollute

Woman’s name with woman.

_______

Genius

 

A glorious madman in the whole world pent

The idle and unconscious instrument

Of higher things than consciousness hosts of

Unphilosophical labour all of[1] {…} love

Seeing not high from low but low things from above.

{…}

 

[35r]

 

Happy, when can be he if he sees

{…}

 

With {…} breeze

Shaking the leaves from a sweet rose, from old

On a far moment which must be untold

Save in the heartbeats and there they are

Priceless beyond the wealth of pearl or gold

{…}

 

[36r]

 

{…} of sex

{…} to perplex

And terrible the sweet Souls, {…}

 

 

[1] labour all of /hosts of\

Documento sem assinatura arquivado no Envelope 79 – «Alexander Search – Poesia – não datada».

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Literatura
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Dados de produção
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Biblioteca Nacional de Portugal
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Documentação Associada
Fernando Pessoa, Poemas Ingleses, Tomo II – Poemas de Alexander Search, Edição de João Dionísio, Lisboa, Imprensa Nacional – Casa da Moeda, 1997, pp. 277-278.