Collected Poems in English and French

By Samuel Beckett

This assortment gathers jointly the Nobel Prize-winning author Samuel Beckett's English poems (including Whoroscope, his first released verse), English translations of poems via Eluard, Rimbaud, Apollinaire, and Chamfort, and poems in French, a number of of that are provided in translation.

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J'ai heurté, savez-vous? d'incroyables Florides Mêlant aux fleurs des yeux de panthères aux peaux D'hommes, des arcs-en-ciel tendus comme des brides Sous l'horizon des mers, à de glauques troupeaux. J'ai vu fermenter les marais, énormes nasses Où pourrit dans les joncs tout un Léviathan, Des écroulements d'eaux au milieu des bonaces Et les lointains vers les gouffres cataractant! Glaciers, soleils d'argent, flots nacreux, cieux de braises, Échouages hideux au fond des golfes bruns Où les serpents géants dévorés des punaises Choient des arbres tordus avec de noirs parfums! i've got months lengthy the maddened herds of the surf Storming the reefs, senseless of the ft, The radiant toes of the Marys that constrain The stampedes of the broken-winded Oceans. i've got fouled, be it identified, unspeakable Floridas, tangle of The vegetation of the eyes of panthers within the skins of males and the taut rainbows curtailing, past the brows of the seas, the glaucous herds. i've got noticeable Leviathan sprawl rotting within the reeds Of the nice seething swamp-nets; The calm sea disembowelled in waterslides And the cataracting of the doomed horizons. Iridescent waters, glaciers, suns of silver, flagrant skies, And darkish creeks' mystery ledges, horror-strewn, the place tremendous reptiles, pullulant with lice, Lapse with darkish perfumes from the writhing timber. J'aurais voulu montrer aux enfants ces dorades Du flot bleu, ces poissons d'or, ces poissons chantants. Des écumes de fleurs ont béni mes dérades, Et d'ineffables vents m'ont ailé par instants. Parfois, martyr lassé des pôles et des zones, los angeles mer, dont le sanglot faisait mon roulis doux, Montait vers moi ses fleurs d'ombre aux ventouses jaunes Et je restais ainsi qu'une femme à genoux, Presqu'île ballottant sur mes bords les querelles Et les fientes d'oiseaux clabaudeurs aux yeux blonds, Et je voguais lorsqu'à travers mes liens frêles Des noyés descendaient dormir à reculons… Or, moi, bateau perdu sous les cheveux des anses, Jeté par l'ouragan dans l'éther sans oiseau, Moi dont les screens et les voiliers des Hanses N'auraient pas repêché los angeles carcasse ivre d'eau, i might have proven to youngsters these dorados Of the blue wave, these golden fish, these making a song fish; In spumes of plant life i've got risen from my anchors And canticles of wind have blessed my wings. Then towards me, rocking softly on its sobbing, Weary of the torment of the poles and zones, the ocean might raise its yellow polyps on vegetation Of gloom and carry me—like a lady kneeling— A stranded sanctuary for screeching birds, Flaxen-eyed, shiteing on my trembling decks, until eventually down they swayed to sleep, the drowned, spreadeagled, And, sundering the effective tendrils, floated me. Now I who was once wrecked within the inlets' tangled hair And flung past birds aloft via the typhoon, Whose carcass inebriated with water displays And Hanseatic sloops couldn't have salved; Libre, fumant, monté de brumes violettes, Moi qui trouais le ciel rougeoyant comme un mur Qui porte, confiture exquise aux bons poètes, Des lichens de soleil et des morves d'azur, Qui courais taché de lunules électriques, Planche folle, escorté des hippocampes noirs, Quand les Juillets faisaient crouler à coups de triques Les cieux ultramarins aux ardents entonnoirs, Moi qui tremblais, sentant geindre à cinquante lieues Le rut des Béhémots et des Maelstroms épais, Fileur éternel des immobilités bleues, Je regrette l'Europe aux anciens parapets.

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