Poetic-Verses from ATHANASE
Your Voice, Marquise (English)
for Nicole Lemaire d'Agaggio
'O beata solitudo, o sola beatitudo'
(Blessèd solitude, my only bliss)
St Bernard of Clairvaux
I loved your voice to distraction, Marquise,
a voice in which the graceful coolness of a gentle wind
mingled with the liquid trembling of wings and colours,
a voice which changed the choir of my words
into a memory that pained me, haunted me.
translated from the French of Athanase Vantchev de Thracy by Norton Hodges
28.11.07.
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Your Voice, Marquise (English)
Your Voice, Marquise (English)