Ingeborg Bachmann
Gedichte 1945-1956
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Ingeborg Bachmann
The Collected Poems
Poems 1945-1956
The world is far and wide, and the roads from land to land,
there are many places that I've seen firsthand;
from inside every tower, I have seen the cities,
the people who are coming, the people who've left already.
The fields were so immense with sun and snow,
between the mountain and lake, the tracks and roads.
And the mouth of the world was wide, full of voices at my ear
that transcribed,
not only at night, diverse songs.
I drank down five cups of wine in a single sitting,
the four winds dried my hair in their house that is ever-changing.
Now the journey is over,
and yet with nothing I've come to the end,
a piece of my love each place has taken,
my eyes have been scorched by each light they've borne,
in every shadow my dress has been torn.
Now the journey is over.
Yet to every distance I'm still bound,
though no bird has lifted me over the border beyond,
no water, drifting towards the sea's mouth,
carries my face, that still looks down,
nor my sleep, which does not want to travel...
I know the world that's nearer and still.
Behind the world a tree shall stand
with leaves that are clouds
and a crown that is blue.
With a red sunbeam the wind now carves
our heart into its bark
and cools it with dew.
Behind the world a tree shall stand,
a fruit at its top
with a skin of gold.
Let us see beyond,
in the autumn of time,
when into God's hands it rolls.
transl. by Peter Filkins
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| понедельник, 30 декабря 2019
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