Un peu de poésie pour le mois américain avec Emily Dickinson, que j'avais très envie de lire depuis ma lecture de Bobin. Dans cette édition, beaucoup de poèmes, classés par carnets, quelques notes et une intro qui nous donne quelques infos sur la poétesse. Les thématiques sont variées : états de l'âme, états de la nature, observations, spiritualité... il y a tellement de choses dans sa poésie, les choses de la vie de tous les jours - les carnets proposés ici datent essentiellement de 1861-1863. C'est une version bilingue, que j'ai eu la joie de parcourir en français ou en anglais selon les poèmes. J'en ai glané pas mal !
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Blazing in
Gold - and
Quenching-in
Purple!
Leaping-like
Leopards-in the sky-
Then-at the
feet of the old Horizon-
Laying it's
spotted face - to die!
Stooping as
low as the kitchen window-
Touching
the Roof-
And tinting
the Barn-
Kissing
it's Bonnet to the Meadow-
And the
Juggler of Day - is gone!
509
If
anybody's friend be dead
It's sharpest
of the theme
The thinking
how they walked alive -
At such and
such a time -
Their
costume, of a Sunday,
Some manner
of the Hair -
A prank
nobody knew but them
Lost, in
the Sepulchre -
How warm,
they were, on such a day,
You almost
feel the date -
So short
way off it seems -
And now -
they're Centuries from that -
How pleased
they were, at what you said -
You try to
touch the smile
And dip
your fingers in the frost -
When was it
- Can you tell -
You asked
the Company to tea -
Acquaintance
- just a few -
And chatted
close with this Grand Thing
That don't
remember you -
Past Bows,
and Invitations -
Past
Interview, and Vow -
Past what
Ourself can estimate -
That -
makes the Quick of Woe!
670
One need
not be a Chamber - to be Haunted -
One need
not be a House -
The Brain
has Corridors - surpassing
Material
Place -
Far safer
of a Midnight - meeting
External
Ghost -
Than an Interior
- Confronting -
That cooler
- Host.
Far safer,
through an Abbey – gallop -
The Stones
a'chase -
Than Moonless
- One's A'self encounter --
In lonesome
place -
Ourself -
behind Ourself - Concealed -
Should
startle - most -
Assassin - hid
in our Apartment -
Be Horror's
least -
The Prudent
- carries a Revolver -
He bolts
the Door -
O'erlooking
a Superior Spectre -
More near -
677
To be alive
- is Power -
Existence -
in itself -
Without a
further function -
Omnipotence
- Enough -
To be alive
- and Will!
'Tis able
as a God -
The Maker -
of Ourselves - be what -
Such being Finitude!
783
The Birds begun at Four o'clock -
Their period for Dawn -
A Music numerous as space -
But neighboring as Noon -
I could not count their Force -
Their Voices did expend
As Brook by Brook bestows itself
To multiply the Pond.
Their Witnesses were not -
Except occasional man -
In homely industry arrayed -
To overtake the Morn -
Nor was it for applause -
That I could ascertain -
But independent Ecstasy
Of Deity and Men -
By Six, the Flood had done -
No Tumult there had been
Of Dressing, or Departure -
And yet the Band was gone -
The Sun engrossed the East -
The Day controlled the World -
The Miracle that introduced
Forgotten, as fulfilled.
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