Poesia kaiera
Poesia kaiera
Edna St. Vincent Millay
itzulpena: Ana Morales
2021, poesia
64 orrialde
978-84-17051-65-5
Edna St. Vincent Millay
1892-1950
 
 

 

Emazte sorgina

 

Ez da ez arrosa ez zuria,

      Eta inoiz ez dateke guztiz nire;

Amandre ipuin batez du eskua hezia,

      Eta ahoa, maite postal bat dela bide.

 

Behar baino sarriago du ilea;

      Eguzkitan ene galgarria!

Eta ahotsa, koloreko aleen katea,

      Edo itsasora doan mailadia.

 

Maite nau ahal duen adina,

      Ene amorez emanez amore;

Baina ezein gizonentzat ez da egina,

      Eta inoiz ez dateke guztiz nire.

 

Witch-Wife

She is neither pink nor pale, / And she never will be all mine; / She learned her hands in a fairy-tale, / And her mouth on a valentine. // She has more hair than she needs; / In the sun ’tis a woe to me! / And her voice is a string of coloured beads, / Or steps leading into the sea. // She loves me all that she can, / And her ways to my ways resign; / But she was not made for any man, / And she never will be all mine.