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Wilde, Oscar: Les Ballons (Les Ballons in Hungarian)

Portre of Wilde, Oscar
Portre of Israel Efraim

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Les Ballons (English)

Against these turbid turquoise skies
The light and luminous balloons
Dip and drift like satin moons,
Drift like silken butterflies;

Reel with every windy gust,
Rise and reel like dancing girls,
Float like strange transparent pearls,
Fall and float like silver dust.

Now to the low leaves they cling,
Each with coy fantastic pose,
Each a petal of a rose
Straining at a gossamer string.

Then to the tall trees they climb,
Like thin globes of amethyst,
Wandering opals keeping tryst
With the rubies of the lime.



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Les Ballons (Hungarian)

Zűrös türkiz egek előtt
Sodródnak fénylő ballonok,
Mint ezer szatén holdkorong,
Mint selymes lepkeszárnykörök.

Pörgeti minden fuvalom,
Mint légies ballerina,
Vagy mintha gyöngyház porlana,
Szitálna ezüstös korom.

Most mind levelekbe akad
Félénken remegve bohón:
Mint amikor rózsaszirom
Feszít ökörnyálszárnyakat.

Majd fákra kúsznak fel mohón
Mint gyöngyök, ametisztgolyók;
Vándoropáltalálkozók
Rubintgyümölcsös citruson.



Uploaded byEfraim Israel
Source of the quotationsaját fordítás

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