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De Franse dichter André du Bouchet werd op 7 mei 1924 geboren in Parijs. Hij studeerde o.a. aan het Amherst Collge en aan Harvard in de VS. In zijn eerste bundels Air {Lucht, 1951) en Sans couvercle {Zonder deksel, 1953) overheerst nog duidelijk de bekommernis om de notities tot gedichten om te smeden; de teksten zien er ook uit als gewone prozagedichten of gedichten waarvan de verzen aan de linkerkant mooi op een lijn zijn gezet. Maar in Défets (1981) werden de aantekeningen als aantekeningen overgenomen.
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- Loin du souffle
M'étant heurté, sans l'avoir reconnu, à l'air,
je sais, maintenant, descendre vers le jour.
Comme une voix, qui, sur ses lèvres même,
assécherait l'éclat.
Les tenailles de cette étendue,
perdue pour nous,
mais jusqu 'ici.
J'accède à ce sol qui ne parvient pas à notre
bouche, le sol qui étreint la rosée.
Ce que je foule ne se déplace pas,
l'étendue grandit.
André du Bouchet (7 mei 1924 19 april 2001)
De Engelse dichter en schrijver Robert Browning werd geboren op 7 mei 1812 in Londen. Zie ook mijn blog van 7 mei 2007 en ook mijn blog van 7 mei 2008.
Confessions
What is he buzzing in my ears?
"Now that I come to die,
Do I view the world as a vale of tears?"
Ah, reverend sir, not I!
What I viewed there once, what I view again
Where the physic bottles stand
On the table's edge, -is a suburb lane,
With a wall to my bedside hand.
That lane sloped, much as the bottles do,
From a house you could descry
O'er the garden-wall: is the curtain blue
Or green to a healthy eye?
To mine, it serves for the old June weather
Blue above lane and wall;
And that farthest bottle labelled "Ether"
Is the house o'ertopping all.
At a terrace, somewhere near the stopper,
There watched for me, one June,
A girl; I know, sir, it's improper,
My poor mind's out of tune.
Only, there was a way... you crept
Close by the side, to dodge
Eyes in the house, two eyes except:
They styled their house "The Lodge".
What right had a lounger up their lane?
But, by creeping very close,
With the good wall's help, -their eyes might strain
And stretch themselves to Oes,
Yet never catch her and me together,
As she left the attic, there,
By the rim of the bottle labelled "Ether",
And stole from stair to stair,
And stood by the rose-wreathed gate. Alas,
We loved, sir -used to meet:
How sad and bad and mad it was -
But then, how it was sweet!
Robert Browning (7 mei 1812 12 december 1889)
Geschilderd door Robert Barratt (Pen) Browning
De Amerikaanse dichter en politicus Archibald MacLeish werd geboren op 7 mei 1892 in Glencoe, Illinois. Zie ook mijn blog van 7 mei 2007 en ook mijn blog van 7 mei 2008.
Baccalaureate
A year or two, and grey Euripides,
And Horace and a Lydia or so,
And Euclid and the brush of Angelo,
Darwin on man, Vergilius on bees,
The nose and Dialogues of Socrates,
Don Quixote, Hudibras and Trinculo,
How worlds are spawned and where the dead gods go,--
All shall be shard of broken memories.
And there shall linger other, magic things,--
The fog that creeps in wanly from the sea,
The rotton harbor smell, the mystery
Of moonlit elms, the flash of pigeon wings,
The sunny Green, the old-world peace that clings
About the college yard, where endlessly
The dead go up and down. These things shall be
Enchantment of our heart's rememberings.
And these are more than memories of youth
Which earth's four winds of pain shall blow away;
These are earth's symbols of eternal truth,
Symbols of dream and imagery and flame,
Symbols of those same verities that play
Bright through the crumbling gold of a great name.
Archibald MacLeish (7 mei 1892 20 april 1982)
De Bengaalse dichter en schrijver Rabindranath Tagore werd op 7 mei 1861 in Calcutta (tegenwoordig: Kolkata) geboren. Zie ook mijn blog van 7 mei 2007 en ook mijn blog van 7 mei 2008.
Beggarly Heart
When the heart is hard and parched up,
come upon me with a shower of mercy.
When grace is lost from life,
come with a burst of song.
When tumultuous work raises its din on all sides shutting me out from
beyond, come to me, my lord of silence, with thy peace and rest.
When my beggarly heart sits crouched, shut up in a corner,
break open the door, my king, and come with the ceremony of a king.
When desire blinds the mind with delusion and dust, O thou holy one,
thou wakeful, come with thy light and thy thunder
Rabindranath Tagore (7 mei 1861 7 augustus 1941)
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