poems by Ahmed Hamdi Tanpınar

e um livro a ler, A Mind at Peace.

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Fear

I have the fear of all the things that end,
I am the Blue Eagle who drags the dawn
Along in his iron beak...
----------------------And life is caught
Within my claws like dangling emeralds
And deathlessness along my lovely swoop
Now bites the thirsty antelope of time.

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Awakening

And now life's desolate twilight hour starts
Beyond distant cypresses daylight departs.

The gardens of spring don the brightest sun,
The river's voice rises and then is gone.

The nightingale sings of love's sorrows
while rings of fire burn the rims of the rose.

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