Kochanowski, Jan Lament IV http://www.wolnelektury.pl/lektura/laments http://wolnelektury.pl/katalog/lektura/treny-tren-iv/ 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-iv 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/13582635593_3b4f80f4ed_k.jpg Runs Through It, David Goehring, CC BY 2.0 http://redakcja.wolnelektury.pl/cover/image/3632 Jan Kochanowski Laments Lament IV Thou hast constrained mine eyes, unholy Death,/ To watch my dear child breathe her dying breath:/ To watch thee shake the fruit unripe and clinging/ While fear and grief her parents' hearts were wringing./ Ah, never, never could my well-loved child/ Have died and left her father reconciled:/ Never but with a heart like heavy lead/ Could I have watched her go, abandonèd./ And yet at no time could her death have brought/ More cruel ache than now, nor bitterer thought;/ For had God granted to her ample days/ I might have walked with her down flowered ways/ And left this life at last, content, descending/ To realms of dark PersephonePersephone --- Greek goddes of vegetation, daughter of Demeter and Zeus, abducted by Hades, god of underworld; her Roman counterpart is Proserpine., the all-ending,/ Without such grievous sorrow in my heart,/ Of which earth holdeth not the counterpart./ I marvel not that NiobeNiobe --- a figure from Greek mythology, daughter of Tantalus, turned into stone by grief after death of her 14 children, inflicted by Olympic gods., alone/ Amid her dear, dead children, turned to stone.