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English language
SOLITUDE
Limba Romana
SINGURATATE
With the curtains drawn together,
At my table of rough wood,
And the firelight flickering softly,
Do I fall to thoughtful mood.

Flocks and flocks of sweet illusions,
Memories the mind recalls,
And they softly creep like crickets
Through time's grey and crumbled walls;

Or they drop with gentle patter
On the pavement of the soul,
As does wax before God's altar
From the sacred candles roll.

About the room in every corner
Silver webs the spiders sew,
While among the dusty bookshelves
Furtive mice soft come and go.

And I gaze towards the ceiling
That so many times I saw,
And I listen how the bindings
With their tiny teeth they gnaw.

O, how often have I wanted
My worn Lyre aside to lay;
From poetry and solitude
At last my thoughts to turn away.

But again the mice, the crickets,
With their small and rustling tread,
Awake in me familiar longings
And with poetry fill my head.

Once in a while, alas too rarely,
When my lamp is burning late,
Suddenly my heart beats wildly
For I hear the latch-bar grate.

It is She. My dusky chamber
In a moment seems to glow;
As if an icon's holy lustre
Did o'er life's threshold flow.

And I know not how the moments
Have the heart away to sneak,
While we whisper low our loving,
Hand in hand, and cheek to cheek.

Translated by

Corneliu M. Popescu
Cu perdelele lasate
Sed la masa mea de brad,
Focul pilpiie în soba,
Iara eu pe ginduri cad.

Stoluri, stoluri trec pin minte
Dulci iluzii. Amintiri
Tiriiesc încet ca greieri
Printre negre, vechi zidiri,

Sau cad grele, mingiioase
Si se sfarma-n suflet trist,
Cum în picuri cade ceara
La picioarele lui Crist.

In odaie prin unghere
S-a tesut paienjenis
Si prin cartile în vravuri
Umbla soarecii furis.

In aceasta dulce pace
Imi ridic privirea-n pod
Si ascult cum invelisul
De la carti ei mi le rod.

Ah! de cite ori voit-am
Ca să spinzur lira-n cui
Si un capat poeziei
Si pustiului să pui;

Dar atuncea greieri, soareci,
Cu usor-maruntul mers,
Readuc melancolia-mi,
Iara ea se face vers.

Citeodata... prea arare...
A târziu când arde lampa,
Inima din loc îmi sare,
Când aud ca suna cleampa...

Este Ea. Desarta casa
Dintr-o data-mi pare plina,
In privazul negru-al vietii-mi
E-o icoana de lumina.

Si mi-i ciuda cum de vremea
Să mai treaca se indura,
Când eu stau soptind cu draga
Mina-n mâna, gura-n gura.

1878, 1 martie

Mihail Eminescu
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