Peliano costuma brincar que a poes-ia e foram os poetas que a trouxeram de volta! Uma de suas invenções mais ricas é conseguir por em palavras lirismos maravilhosos, aqueles que percebemos de repente e temos a impressão que não vamos conseguir exprimi-los. Exemplos: de Manoel de Barros -"Deixamos Bernardo de manhã em sua sepultura. De tarde o deserto já estava em nós"; de Ernesto Sabato - "Sólo quienes sean capaces de encarnar la utopía serán aptos para ... recuperar cuanto de humanidad hayamos perdido"; de Thiago de Mello - "Faz escuro mas eu canto"; de Helen Keller - "Nunca se deve engatinhar quando o impulso é voar"; de Millôr Fernandes - "Sim, do mundo nada se leva. Mas é formidável ter uma porção de coisas a que dizer adeus". É como teria exclamado Michelangelo que não fora ele quem esculpiu Davi, pois este já estava pronto dentro da pedra, Michelangelo apenas tirara-o de lá. Então, para Peliano, o lirismo é quando nos abraça o mundo fora de nós, cochicha seu mistério em nossos ouvidos e o pegamos com as mãos da poesia em seus muitos dedos de expressão.

quinta-feira, 14 de junho de 2012

Jane Austen

This little bag


This little bag I hope will prove
To be not vainly made--
For, if you should a needle want
It will afford you aid.
And as we are about to part
T'will serve another end,
For when you look upon the Bag
You'll recollect your friend.

See they come

See they come, post haste from Thanet,
Lovely couple, side by side;
They've left behind them Richard Kennet
With the Parents of the Bride!
Canterbury they have passed through;
Next succeeded Stamford-bridge;
Chilham village they came fast through;
Now they've mounted yonder ridge.

Down the hill they're swift proceeding,
Now they skirt the Park around;
Lo! The Cattle sweetly feeding
Scamper, startled at the sound!

Run, my Brothers, to the Pier gate!
Throw it open, very wide!
Let it not be said that we're late
In welcoming my Uncle's Bride!

To the house the chaise advances;
Now it stops--They're here, they're here!
How d'ye do, my Uncle Francis?
How does do your Lady dear?

Ode to Pity

1

Ever musing I delight to tread
The Paths of honour and the Myrtle Grove
Whilst the pale Moon her beams doth shed
On disappointed Love.
While Philomel on airy hawthorn Bush
Sings sweet and Melancholy, And the thrush
Converses with the Dove.

2

Gently brawling down the turnpike road,
Sweetly noisy falls the Silent Stream--
The Moon emerges from behind a Cloud
And darts upon the Myrtle Grove her beam.
Ah! then what Lovely Scenes appear,
The hut, the Cot, the Grot, and Chapel queer,
And eke the Abbey too a mouldering heap,
Cnceal'd by aged pines her head doth rear
And quite invisible doth take a peep

When Stretch'd on One's Bed

When stretch'd on one's bed
With a fierce-throbbing head,
Which preculdes alike thought or repose,
How little one cares
For the grandest affairs
That may busy the world as it goes!

How little one feels
For the waltzes and reels
Of our Dance-loving friends at a Ball!
How slight one's concern
To conjecture or learn
What their flounces or hearts may befall.

How little one minds
If a company dines
On the best that the Season affords!
How short is one's muse
O'er the Sauces and Stews,
Or the Guests, be they Beggars or Lords.

How little the Bells,
Ring they Peels, toll they Knells,
Can attract our attention or Ears!
The Bride may be married,
The Corse may be carried
And touch nor our hopes nor our fears.

Our own bodily pains
Ev'ry faculty chains;
We can feel on no subject besides.
Tis in health and in ease
We the power must seize
For our friends and our souls to provide.

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