ODE
(In Ancient Meter)
I never thought I would learn how to die, ever.
Forever young, cloaked in my mantle,
My eyes, dreamful, were affixed to the star
Of solitude.
All of a sudden you rose across my way—
You, my suffering, so painful and sweet;
To its full I drank your voluptuous,
Merciless death.
Wretched I burn alive tortured like Nessus,
Or like Hercules by his harness poisoned—
My fire can’t be quenched by all the sweeping
Waves of the seas.
Woe betide, by my own dream devoured…
Consumed by flames, I wail on a pyre, my own;
Can I ever rise anew, luminous
Like the
Oh, troubled eyes, from my path now vanish,
Return to my bosom, sad indifference;
So I can die in peace, my own old self
To me redeem!
(1883)
- ABRAMOWITZ, HAROLD
- ADELL JOAN-ELIES
- ALMEIDA, ALEXIS
- ANGELAKIS, ANDREAS
- ANGELOU MAYA
- ANGHELAKI-ROOKE, KATERINA
- ANTIOHOU, GIANNIS
- APPS, STAN
- ARKADI, STELLA
- ARRIEU-KING, CYNTHIA
- ARSENIOU, ELISAVET
- ASHBERY, JOHN
- BAEV, ANTON
- BEKOU, ATHINA
- BLAINE, JULIEN
- BOUHLAL, SIHAM
- CELAL,
- CELAL, METİN
- CHOULIARAS, YIORGOS
- DALAKOURA, VERONIKI
- DEL REY, LANA
- DICKISON, STEVE
- DIMOS, HELEN
- DJORDJEVIC, GORAN
- DOOLITTLE, HILDA "H.D."
- DOUCEY, BRUNO
- ECK, MATTHEW
- ECONOMOU, GEORGE
- EMINESCU, MIHAI
- EPISKOPOU, MARIA
- FRIES, KENNY
- GARCIA, ANGELA INES
- GERTRUDE STEIN
- GEVIRTZ, SUSAN
- GONZÁLEZ SPAIN, PILAR
- GOVRIN MICHAL
- GRECEANU, ADELA
- GRIMA, ADRIAN
- HADJIDAKI, NATASHA
- HALL, GORDON
- HAQ, KAISER
- HIGGINS, KEVIN
- HRISTOV, IVAN
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- INGUANEZ, SIMONE
- ISTVAN, LASZLO
- JONES, LAURYN
- KARRA, AMARYLLIS ELENI
- KATTAN, ROLANDO
- KHAN, MONEEBA
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