Eminescu

Romanians are celebrating, as a first, poet Mihai Eminescu, 161 years since his birth, by holding on January 15 of the National Culture Day.

M.Eminescu

Astazi se împlinesc 161 de ani de la nasterea lui Mihai Eminescu.

M. Eminescu

Aici : Oda in metru antic ( recita Adrian Paunescu)

Nu credeam să-nvăţ a muri vreodată;

Pururi tânăr, înfăşurat în manta-mi,

Ochii mei ‘nălţam visători la steaua

Singurătăţii.

Când deodată tu răsărişi în cale-mi,

Suferinţă tu, dureros de dulce…

Până-n fund băui voluptatea morţii

Ne-ndurătoare.

Jalnic ard de viu chinuit ca Nessus,

Ori ca Hercul înveninat de haina-i;

Focul meu a-l stinge nu pot cu toate

Apele mării.

De-al meu propriu vis mistuit mă vaiet,

Pe-al meu propriu rug, mă topesc în flăcări…

Pot să mai re-nviu luminos din el ca

Pasărea Phoenix?

Piară-mi ochii tulburători din cale,

Vino iar în sân, nepăsare tristă;

Ca să pot muri linişiti, pe mine

Mie redă-ma!

here : ODE ( (in ancient meter)

Hardly had I thought I should learn to perish;

Ever young, enwrapped in my robe I wandered,

Raising dreamy eyes to the star styled often

Solitude's symbol.

All at once, however, you crossed my pathway -

Suffering - you, painfully sweet, yet torture...

To the less I drank the delight of dying -

Pitiless torment.

Sadly racked, I'm burning alive like Nessus,

Or like Hercules by his garment poisoned;

Nor can I extinguish my flames with every

Billow of oceans.

By my own ilussion consumed I'm wailing

On my own grim pyre in flames I'm melting...

Can I hope to rise again like the Phoenix

Bird from the ashes?  

May all tempting eyes vanish from my pathway

Come back to my breast, you indifferent sorrow!

So that I may quietly die, restore me

To my own being!

ODE(in ancient meter) - M.Eminescu /English version by Andrei Bantas

  Bellu is the most famous cemetery in Bucharest, Romania

Here some images from Writers Alley where Eminescu was was buried under a linden tree.
(jan, 15-2011)

 

Eminescu on blog :    Karina-lumea noastra
                  Maria Postu

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