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The Great Mirror of Same-Sex Love - Poetry - 23. …to wreathe the brows of day…

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...to wreathe the brows of day...

 

After hard work and a sense of achievement,

I want sweet nothings to dream the hours away,

To tarry with the fleeting pleasures of day

And revel in great and small as a present:

 

To sing gentle poets' verse and know what they meant,

Stretched in the grass, near those gurgling springs at play,

By rose bushes, and under where lime trees sway,

To live life carefree, with no encumberment.

 

In May to wreathe the brows of day with a score

Of green foliage and beautify in kind

Sultry nights with wine and love till it's day once more.

 

Even if a mortal judge frowns and turns blind

To accuse me of its worst abuses at core,

This life's the only thing that pleases my mind.

—August von Platen,[i]

circa 1805

 

 

 

 

[i] “…to wreathe the brows of day…” August von Platen Gedichte (Stuttgart 1828), p. 176; translation of “Nach langer Arbeit Glücklichem Vollbringen”

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On 10/25/2021 at 1:22 PM, Parker Owens said:

Such a beautiful sonnet; it radiates golden sunlight and simple pleasures. And maybe if we’re fortunate, then we can wreath the brows of our own days as he does his…

I am making my way through this poet's Sonnets; and these early ones of his (presumably dating from his university years) are full of longing advice to the young men (or, one man?) he was in love with. 

Thanks for your comments, Parker :)

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