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Poe, Edgar Allan: Nyugtalanság völgye (The Walley of Unrest in Hungarian)

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The Walley of Unrest (English)

Once it smiled a silent dell
Where the people did not dwell;
They had gone unto the wars,
Trusting to the mild-eyed stars,
Nightly, from their azure towers,
To keep watch above the flowers,
In the midst of which all day
The red sunlight lazily lay,
Now each visitor shall confess
The sad valley's restlessness.
Nothing there is motionless -
Nothing save the airs that brood
Over the magic solitude.
Ah, by no wind are stirred those trees
That palpitate like the chill seas
Around the misty Hebrides!
Ah, by no wind those clouds are driven
That rustle through the unquiet Heaven
Unceasingly, from morn till even,
Over the violets there that lie
In myriad types of the human eye -
Over the lilies that wave
And weep above a nameless grave!
They wave: - from out their fragrant tops
Eternal dews come down in drops.
They weep: - from off their delicate stems
Perennial tears descend in gems.



Uploaded byDvorcsák Gábor Imre
Source of the quotationThe Complete Poems

Nyugtalanság völgye (Hungarian)

Volt egyszer egy zsenge-zöld,
Senki-lakta, szende völgy;
Hadra kelt, ki ott lakott,
S csak a nyájas csillagok -
Tornyuk azúr ablakán át -
Őrizték a völgy virágát,
Melyen nappal mindenütt
Lusta lángu nap feküdt.
Érzi most, ki arra jár:
Nyugtalanul fáj e táj.
Minden íze úgy zihál,
Csak a bús lég ül ma békén
Csöndje mágikus vidékén.
Szél se libben, de az ág
Borzong, mint a Hebridák
Hűvös habja, ködvilág!
Szél se libben, s mord sereggel
Bolyg az ég, nagy fellegekkel,
Dalmahodva este-reggel,
Árnyalva a miriád
Szemmel kéklő ibolyát -
S mely névtelen síron zokog,
A hajlongó liliomot!
Hajlong - s harmatot hullat a
Liliom örök illata.
Zokog - s szép szárán könny csorog,
Mint halhatatlan gyöngysorok.



Uploaded byP. T.
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