Kochanowski, Jan Lament VI http://www.wolnelektury.pl/lektura/laments http://wolnelektury.pl/katalog/lektura/treny-tren-vi/ 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-vi 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 enghttp://redakcja.wolnelektury.pl/media/cover/image/2798114577_39042e5554_o.jpg Mandolin or Lute?, Justin Warner, CC BY-SA 2.0 http://redakcja.wolnelektury.pl/cover/image/3794 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.