Kochanowski, Jan
Lament VI
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Prall, Dorothea
Kozioł, Paweł
Lech, Justyna
Niedziałkowska, Marta
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Jan Kochanowski, Laments, University of California Press, Berkeley 1920.
Domena publiczna - Dorothea Prall
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Jan Kochanowski
Laments
Lament VI
Dear little Slavic SapphoSappho (c. 612 BC--c. 570 BC) --- a female Greek lyric poet., we had thought,/
Hearing thy songs so sweetly, deftly wrought,/
That thou shouldst have an heritage one day/
Beyond thy father's lands: his lute to play./
For not an hour of daylight's joyous round/
But thou didst fill it full of lovely sound,/
Just as the nightingale doth scatter pleasure/
Upon the dark, in glad unstinted measure./
Then Death came stalking near thee, timid thing,/
And thou in sudden terror tookest wing./
Ah, that delight, it was not overlong/
And I pay dear with sorrow for brief song./
Thou still wert singing when thou cam'st to die;/
Kissing thy mother, thus thou saidst good-bye:/
«My mother, I shall serve thee now no more/
Nor sit about thy table's charming store;/
I must lay down my keys to go from here,/
To leave the mansion of my parents dear.»/
This and what sorrow now will let me tell/
No longer, were my darling's last farewell./
Ah, strong her mother's heart, to feel the pain/
Of those last words and not to burst in twain.