Kochanowski, Jan Lament XIV http://www.wolnelektury.pl/lektura/laments http://wolnelektury.pl/katalog/lektura/treny-tren-xiv/ 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. Dofinansowana ze środków Ministra Kultury i Dziedzictwa Narodowego. http://wolnelektury.pl/katalog/lektura/laments-lament-xiv 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/72230859_21f162c56a_o.jpg , tracy ducasse, CC BY 2.0 http://redakcja.wolnelektury.pl/cover/image/3800 Jan Kochanowski Laments Lament XIV Where are those gates through which so long ago/ OrpheusOrpheus --- legendary Greek singer and poet; in the mythic tale he went to the underworld, trying to charm Hades with his music in order to retrieve his dead wife, Euridice. descended to the realms below/ To seek his lost one? Little daughter, I/ Would find that path and pass that ford whereby/ The grim-faced boatman ferries pallid shades/ And drives them forth to joyless cypress glades./ But do thou not desert me, lovely lute!/ Be thou the furtherance of my mournful suit/ Before dread PlutoPluto --- Roman god of the underworld, equivalent of Greek god Hades., till he shall give ear/ To our complaints and render up my dear./ To his dim dwelling all men must repair,/ And so must she, her father's joy and heir;/ But let him grant the fruit now scarce in flower/ To fill and ripen till the harvest hour!/ Yet if that god doth bear a heart within/ So hard that one in grief can nothing win,/ What can I but renounce this upper air/ And lose my soul, but also lose my care.