As rosas amo dos jardins de Adonis
Fernando Pessoa 1888 (Lisbon District) – 1935 (Lisbon)
The roses from Adonis’ gardens I love,
These ephemeral roses, Lydia,
Which, the day they are born,
The same day they die.
To them, light is eternal since
They flourish when the sun is born, and die
Before Apollo moves across the sky.
In this way we should, one day, live our lives
Not knowing, Lydia, voluntarily
There is night before and after
The brief time that we live.
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Submitted on December 29, 2015
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Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 385 |
Words | 69 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 11 |
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