MY STAR  / STEAUA MEA     

POSTED IN classic poetry, translated English-Romanian July 31, 2022

MY STAR  / STEAUA MEA     

All, that I know
Of a certain star
Is, it can throw
(Like the angled spar)
Now a dart of red,
Now a dart of blue
Till my friends have said
They would fain see, too,
My star that dartles the red and the blue!
Then it stops like a bird; like a flower, hangs furled:
They must solace themselves with the Saturn above it.
What matter to me if their star is a world?
Mine has opened its soul to me; therefore I love it.

 Robert BROWNING

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STEAUA MEA

Tot ceea ce as ști
Despre-o anume stea
E că poate zvacni
(Ca un spat de Islanda)
Cand o rosie sageata,
Cand albastra fulgerare
Prietenii au vrut indata
Să vadă-asa mirare.
Steaua-mi in roșie și-albastra fulgerare!
Apoi se-oprește ca o pasăre; ca o floare,-n zbor ghemuita:
Ei se vor multumi cu Saturn cel ceresc.
Ce-mi pasa dacă steaua lor e-o lume slavita?
A mea si-a deschis sufletul mie; de aceea-o iubesc.

trad. M. M. Biela