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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=589772" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Venus and Madonna [Venere şi Madonă]</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">An ideal lost in darkness of a world that's gone for ever,<br>Which in fairy tales was thinking and in poems used to speak,<br>I can see and hear you, goddess, my sweet news, so young and clever<br>Living in a starry heaven full of deities antique. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Venus, warm and tender marble, eye of stone, which sparkles lively<br>Lazy arm, like the slow thinking of a king and poet, too,<br>Wonderful deification of the woman looking nicely,<br>Of that woman, which at present, still I think she's fair and true. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Raphael, lost in his visions, in a night when stars were present,<br>Soul by rays intoxicated and by many lovely springs,<br>Saw you and he dreamed the heaven with its gardens, smelling pleasant,<br>Saw you floating among angels and among the holy things. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">And created on the canvas the Madonna, divine being,<br>With her maiden smile and wearing a tiara of stars bright<br>With pale face and yellow tresses, woman-angel and appealing,<br>For the woman is the image of the angels pure and white. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">So did I, lost in the darkness of a life of rhymes enchanting,<br>I saw you, O, barren woman without soul, and I was struck<br>And I took you for an angel, sweet like magic and like chanting,<br>When the wretched life is lighted by a strong ray of good luck. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">And I saw your pale complexion, sign of sick intoxication,<br>Your lips bruised by the corruption, which is biting nastily,<br>And I covered you, cruel woman, with white veils of inspiration,<br>On your pallor, with my poems, throwing rays of chastity. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">I gave you the rays encircling with their magic and their power<br>The white forehead of the angel who will help us carry on,<br>Turned the fiend into a hermit and the sneer into a flower<br>And your bold and filthy glances into a majestic dawn. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">But today, the veil is falling, ruthless woman! dreams are shattered,<br>Your chilled lips awaken quickly my sincere and sleepy brow<br>And I watch you, evil demon, and my love, so cold and scattered,<br>Teaches me a precious lesson, that I should despise you now!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">You are like a young bacchante, who has stolen without caring<br>The green myrtle of the martyr from the forehead of a maid,<br>A young virgin, whose soul surely, is as holy as a praying,<br>While the one of the bacchante raves and wriggles in the shade.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Oh, as Raphael created the Madonna, divine being,<br>With her maiden smile and wearing a tiara of stars bright,<br>I made out of a pale woman a true goddess, nice and pleasing,<br>But devoid of any feelings, with a soul as black as night!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Are you crying, child? - I wonder, with your wet and pleading glances<br>Can you break again my poor heart as the wind would break a bough?<br>Falling at your feet I'm looking in your eyes, two black expanses,<br>And I kiss your hands while asking if they can forgive me now. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">* * *</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Wipe your eyes and stop your crying!... Blaming you was cruel, disgusting,<br>An unjust, crooked accusation, without essence, full of lies.<br>Even if you were a demon, love makes you a saint, I'm trusting,<br>And I love this evil demon with blonde hair and deep large eyes.</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>
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