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
 
 

 

 

Gure ama zenaren kuraia

Berarekin betiko zen joan:

New Englandik erauzi harria;

Granito orain, granito mendian.

 

Gure amak urrezko brotxea

Utzi zidan nik eramateko;

Altxor dut guztiz paregabea;

Alabaina, ez zait nahitaezko.

 

Horren ordez, ai, utzi izan balit

Eraman zuena hilobira!:

Harri kuraia, zeinen beharrik

Jada ez baitu, eta nik bai, ostera.

 

The courage that my mother had / Went with her, and is with her still: / Rock from New England quarried; / Now granite in a granite hill. // The golden brooch my mother wore / She left behind for me to wear; / I have no thing I treasure more: / Yet, it is something I could spare. // Oh, if instead she’d left to me / The thing she took into the grave!— / That courage like a rock, which she / Has no more need of, and I have.