Virtual Archive of the Orpheu Generation

Literature
Medium
F. Pessoa - Heterónimos ingleses
BNP/E3, 49A1 – 46
BNP/E3, 49A1 – 46
Fernando Pessoa
Identificação
Fernando Pessoa – “Oft I have wild and wind…”

[BNP/E3, 49A1 – 46]

 

_______

_______

Oft I have wild and wind {…} to {…} purely

On the high {…} of philosophy

Finaly to ponder, {…} well and not obscurely

The truth o’ th’ world and all its lies to see,

_______

But I to gain the {…} surely

By heart may from beauty and from glee

To lock or {…} securely

And reckoning youth’s {…}

__________

Voluptuous † world by will surprise

By soberest thought {…}

† my {…} eyes

 

[46v]

 

Sleep.

 

When the sight {…} taken

     To its next {…}

Then the {…}

And the eyes to not awake

     To the rest

_______

{…} taken

Sleep! With thy cradle shaken

Keep me ever! Let me waken[1]

     Near more.

__________

Now I desire it and cannot have it

 

All my power † that not can save it

From them

Just saw the heart these people noted do keep.

 


 
[1] waken /shaken\

https://modernismo.pt/index.php/arquivo-almada-negreiros/details/33/7584
Classificação
Literatura
Dados Físicos
Dados de produção
Inglês
Dados de conservação
Biblioteca Nacional de Portugal
Palavras chave
Documentação Associada