Modern Czech Poetry/October sonnet
2. SONET ŘÍJNOVÝ.
Už jenom rozteskněná elegie
z té země vlá zpod šlojířových par…
Uvadlá kráska ve všech koutech kryje
uvadlé květy, památky svých jar.
A přec ta touha: dál se líbit—žije
v ní ještě; dosud neschlad nitra žár,
pestré si šerpy kolem těla vije
a do vlasů si sází aster pár;
2. OCTOBER SONNET.
Only an anguished melody still flows
From earth where hazes cast a veiling net…
In every nook the faded beauty stows
Her faded blooms, lest springtide she forget.
But the desire, still more to gladden, glows
Within; unchilled her inmost ardour yet,
And gaudy sashes round her waist she throws
And asters in her tresses she has set;
a smát se chce, jak smávala se kdysi —
však ve vráskách jí tuhne tento smích
a už z nich jenom soucit, soucit žádá…
A ona vše to tuší as a hádá:
Sta slz vždy z rána po šatu jí visí
v probdělé teskné noci prolitých.
„Čtyři knihy sonetů“ (1890—1892).
And she would laugh, as she has laughed of old —
But 'mid her wrinkles laughter numbly fled
And from them only pity, pity cries…
Divining, this perchance she can surmise:
Each morn a hundred tears her garb enfold,
That in her sleepless, anguished night are shed.
“Four books of sonnets” (1890—1892).
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