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The Great Mirror of Same-Sex Love - Poetry - 61. ...in plenitude...

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[Tous est blanc]

 

Les étoiles autour de la belle lune voilent

aussitôt leur clair visage lorsque, dans son plein,

elle illumine la terre de lueurs d’argent.

—Sapho

 

 

Tout est blanc, la lune ouvre sa plénitude,

A ses pieds gémit l’Océan tourmenté:

Sereine, elle voit fleurir la solitude

Et la chasteté.

 

Les astres, devant la Séléné divine,

Ont voilé leur face, et la clarté, neigeant

Du ciel virginal et candide, illumine

La terre d’argent.

 

 

 

 

 

[All is white]

 

The stars around the beautiful moon veil

the clear face when, in its fullness,

she illuminates the earth with silver gleams.

—Sappho

 

 

All is white, the moon opens in plenitude,

While at her feet cries the sea’s torment again:

Serene, she views blossom the solitude

E’er untouched by men.

 

Now stars, who beneath Selene’s divine glow,

Can veil their faces and allow light new birth,

Do so from pristine skies to fall like snow

O’er the silvered earth.

—Renée Vivien, [i]

1903

 

 

 

 


[i] “Tous est blanc” Renée Vivien Sapho: traduction nouvelle avec le texte grec (Paris 1903), ps. 24-25

https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=hvd.32044009709288&view=1up&seq=66&skin=2021

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2 minutes ago, 84Mags said:

She had such a lovely way of expressing herself. 

Beautifully well put. Thank you, 84Mags

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I can feel and sense the utter peace and tranquillity of the scene described. Thank you for bringing yet another terrific poet to us. 

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13 minutes ago, Parker Owens said:

I can feel and sense the utter peace and tranquillity of the scene described. Thank you for bringing yet another terrific poet to us. 

Thank you, Parker. This poem was a challenge and delight to translate

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