Poetic-Verses from ATHANASE
A Pure and Tender Love (English)
'How could I not be with you at festival time?'
Jean Sénac
You'll come early, so early that the tiny chaffinch
will still be announcing dawn's sweetness with its bright gold song,
and you'll carry anemones from the fields in your shy fingers,
and the sadness of archangels trembling in your eyes.
translated from the French of Athanase Vantchev de Thracy by Norton Hodges
03.12.05.
Notes:
Jean Senac (1926-1973): one of the greatest romantic French Poet. He was killed by an unknown man in Alger, the capital of Algeria, where he lived.
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A Pure and Tender Love (English)
A Pure and Tender Love (English)
