by Richard Wilbur
New American Translations
Series
Marked
by the characteristic virtuosity of one of this country's most
distinguished poets and collected in a single volume for the
first time, these translations include selections from Beowulf
and The Middle English Bestiary, as well as poems by
Baudelaire, Char, Akhmatova, Yevtushenko, Brodksy and Bandeira.
A Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets, Richard Wilbur's
many awards include the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award.
Song
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Vinicius de Moraes
Never
take her away,
The
daughter whom you gave me,
The
gentle, moist, untroubled
Small
daughter whom you gave me;
O
let her heavenly babbling
Beset
me and enslave me.
Don't
take her; let her stay,
Beset
my heart, and win me,
That
I may put away
The
firstborn child within me,
That
cold, petrific, dry
Daughter
whom death once gave,
Whose
life is a long cry
For
milk she may not have,
And
who, in the night-time, calls me
In
the saddest voice that can be
Father,
Father, and tells me
Of
the love she feels for me.
Don't
let her go away,
Her
whom you gave -- my daughter --
Lest
I should come to favor
That
wilder one, that other
Who
does not leave me ever.
Available editions:
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Cloth
ISBN: 0-918526-32-9
Price: $18.00
Publishing Date: January 1982
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ISBN: 0-918526-33-7
Price: $10.00
Publishing Date: January 1982
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