<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=589766" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Ode (in ancient metric) [Odă (în metru antic]</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Well, I never thought I would learn to die;<br>Always young and wrapped in my heavy cloak,<br>I was looking up to the shining star<br>Of sad loneliness. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">When I saw you there, right in front of me,<br>O, you misery, aching, but so sweet...<br>I drank bottoms up the delight of death<br>Cold and merciless. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">I am burning now and like Nessus grieve<br>Or like Hercules, poisoned by his coat;<br>But my raging flames cannot be put out<br>Even by the sea. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">And I am consumed only by my dream,<br>Melting on the stake scalded by the fire...<br>Could I ever rise shining out of it,<br>Like the Phoenix bird?</div><div style="margin:10px 0">May her wistful eyes go away from me.<br>Sad indifference, come back to my chest;<br>I want to become, just to die in peace,<br>Who I was before!</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Mihai+Eminescu">Mihai Eminescu</a>, translated by Octavian Cocoş<div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=589766" data-title="Ode (in ancient metric) [Odă (în metru antic] de Mihai Eminescu" data-description="Well, I never thought I would learn to die;/Always young and wrapped in my heavy cloak,/I was looking up to the shining star/Of sad loneliness. /When I saw you there, right in front of me,/O, you misery, aching, but so sweet.../I drank bottoms up ..."></div> </div> </div>

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