Kochanowski, Jan Lament I http://www.wolnelektury.pl/lektura/laments http://wolnelektury.pl/katalog/lektura/treny-tren-i/ Prall, Dorothea Kozioł, Paweł Lech, Justyna Niedziałkowska, Marta Fundacja Nowoczesna Polska Renesans Liryka Tren Publikacja zrealizowana w ramach projektu Wolne Lektury (http://wolnelektury.pl). Reprodukcja cyfrowa wykonana przez Bibliotekę Narodową z egzemplarza pochodzącego ze zbiorów BN. Dofinansowano ze środków Ministra Kultury i Dziedzictwa Narodowego. http://wolnelektury.pl/katalog/lektura/laments-lament-i http://polona.pl/item/333575/1/ Jan Kochanowski, Laments, University of California Press, Berkeley 1920 Domena publiczna - Dorothea Prall xml text text 2014-11-18 eng http://redakcja.wolnelektury.pl/media/cover/image/6849537734_c8006fdf2c_k.jpg Edward.rhys, Perchance, Patiently Perched, CC BY 2.0 http://redakcja.wolnelektury.pl/cover/image/3629 Jan Kochanowski Laments Lament I Come, HeraclitusHeraclitus of Ephesus (c. 535--475 BC) --- pre-Socratic Greek philosopher, often called ,,weeping Heraclitus". and SimonidesSimonides of Ceos (c. 556--468 BC) --- a Greek lyric poet, renowned for his epitaphs.,/ Come with your weeping and sad elegies:/ Ye griefs and sorrows, come from all the lands/ Wherein ye sigh and wail and wring your hands:/ Gather ye here within my house today/ And help me mourn my sweet, whom in her May/ Ungodly Death hath ta'en to his estate,/ Leaving me on a sudden desolate./ 'Tis so a serpent glides on some shy nest/ And, of the tiny nightingales possessed,/ Doth glut its throat, though, frenzied with her fear,/ The mother bird doth beat and twitter near/ And strike the monster, till it turns and gapes/ To swallow her, and she but just escapes./ «'Tis vain to weep,» my friends perchance will say./ Dear God, is aught in life not vain, then? Nay,/ Seek to lie soft, yet thorns will prickly be:/ The life of man is naught but vanity./ Ah, which were better, then --- to seek relief/ In tears, or sternly strive to conquer grief?