THE LAKE ISLE OF INNISFREE / INSULA DE PE LACUL INNISFREE

POSTED IN classic poetry March 27, 2023

THE LAKE ISLE OF INNISFREE / INSULA DIN LACUL INNISFREE

I will arise and go now, and go to Innisfree,
And a small cabin build there, of clay and wattles made;
Nine bean-rows will I have there, a hive for the honey-bee,
And live alone in the bee-loud glade.

And I shall have some peace there, for peace comes dropping slow,
Dropping from the veils of the morning to where the cricket sings;
There midnight’s all a glimmer, and noon a purple glow,
And evening full of the linnet’s wings.

I will arise and go now, for always night and day
I hear lake water lapping with low sounds by the shore;
While I stand on the roadway, or on the pavements grey,
I hear it in the deep heart’s core.

William Butler YEATS

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Insula din Lacul Innisfree

Mă voi scula si-oi merge acum spre Innisfree,
Colib-oi face-acolo din lut si din glicine;
Nouă vreji de fasole-oi avea si-un stup de-albine,
Și-n poiana cu zumzet eu singur voi trai.

Și-oi avea pace-acolo, usure picurand,
Din voalul zorilor pana unde greierul imbie;
Si miezul nopți-i licăr, amiaza-i purpurie,
Iar seara-i plină de canepari fluturand.

Mă voi scula si-oi merge, caci mereu noapte, zi
Aud cum clipoceste lacul pe langa mal;
În timp ce stau pe drumuri, sau trotuare gri,
In miezul inimii adânc aud un val.

trad. M. M. Biela