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Borges, Jorge Luis: Things That Might Have Been (Things That Might Have Been in English)

Portre of Borges, Jorge Luis

Things That Might Have Been (Spanish)

Pienso en las cosas que pudieron ser y no fueron.

El tratado de mitología sajona que Beda no escribió.

La obra inconcebible que a Dante le fue dada acaso entrever,

Ya corregido el último verso de la Comedia.

La historia sin la tarde de la Cruz y la tarde de la cicuta.

La historia sin el rostro de Helena.

El hombre sin los ojos, que nos han deparado la luna.

En las tres jornadas de Gettysburg la victoria del Sur.

El amor que no compartimos.

El dilatado imperio que los Vikings no quisieron fundar.

El orbe sin la rueda o sin la rosa.

El juicio de John Donne sobre Shakespeare.

El otro cuerno del Unicornio.

El ave fabulosa de Irlanda, que está en dos lugares a un tiempo.

El hijo que no tuve.



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Things That Might Have Been (English)

I think of things that weren't, but might have been.

The treatise on Saxon myths Bede never wrote.

The inconceivable work Dante might have had a glimpse of,

As soon as he’d corrected the Comedy’s last verse.

History without the afternoons of the Cross and the hemlock.

History without the face of Helen.

Man without the eyes that gave us the moon.

On Gettysburg’s three days, victory for the South.

The love we never shared.

The wide empire the Vikings chose not to found.

The world without the wheel or the rose.

The view John Donne held of Shakespeare.

The other horn of the Unicorn.

The fabled Irish bird that lights on two trees at once.

The child I never had.



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Source of the quotationhttp://poemsandpickaxes.blogspot.hu

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