This website is using cookies

We use cookies to ensure that we give you the best experience on our website. If you continue without changing your settings, we'll assume that you are happy to receive all cookies on this website. 

Heaney, Seamus: Stern

Portre of Heaney, Seamus

Stern (English)

In memory of Ted Hughes

 

'And what was it like,' I asked him,

'Meeting Eliot?'

'When he looked at you,'

He said, 'It was like standing on a quay

Watching as the prow of The Queen Mary

Came towards you, very slowly.'

 

Now it seems

I’m standing on a pier head watching him

All the while watching me as he rows out

And a wooden end-scopped stern

Labours and shimmers and dips,

Making no real headway.



Uploaded byP. T.
Source of the quotationhttp://www.sacredheartcamden.org/FamousLC.htm

Csónak (Hungarian)

Ted Hughes emlékére

 

„S Eliottal találkozni milyen volt?"

Kérdeztem,

" Mikor rád nézett,

Az olyan volt, mintha rakparton állnál,

És figyelnéd, hogyan közeledik

Lassan, lassan a legnagyobb hajó."

 

Már úgy tűnik,

Én állok a kikötőben és figyelem,

Ahogy kievez, és engem figyel,

Merít és húz, merít és húz,

Villan, bukdácsol a csónak,

Mégsem halad előre.



Uploaded byP. T.
Source of the quotationhttp://irc.sunchat.hu/vers/

minimap