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Mihai Eminescu

When the voice [Când însuşi glasul]

And when the voice of thoughts is keeping silent,
A sweet devotion sings with me together,
That's when I call you; will you hear me ever?
Will you escape from those mists dark and violent?

Will you light up the night of my obsession
With your big eyes, so peaceful and so charming,
Rise from the shadow of the times, my darling,
To see you coming like in dreams, with passion.

Climb slowly down... come nearer, then stop pacing,
Over my face lean gently and smile sweetly,
Show me your love and sigh and give me pleasure,

With your long lashes touch my lids in passing
To feel the thrill of your embrace completely,
My everlasting love, but lost for ever!

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Through the branch net [Prin a ramurilor mreajă]

Through the branch net, all along,
One can hear a charming song
Fondling all the ears that lie
By the linden old and high...

Through the leaves, when dies the day,
Tries the moon to make its way,
It's so beautiful and bright
And sheds down its gleams of light.

Start the trumpets to sound soon;
As the disk of the sweet moon
Passes over glades and trees,
Trumpet notes flow with much ease.

The green woods will answer then
And my soul gets lost again,
Grieved, but also filled with grace,
When I think of your nice face.

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Stelele-n cer

Stars in the sky
Above the bay
Burn and decay
Until they die.

Up to the tips
The masts are shaking
And all are trembling
The wooden ships:

Each like a fortress
Floating on water
To reach the border
Of wilderness.

White cranes, in crowds,
Are soaring high
Into the sky
On moving clouds.

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Stars in the sky [Stelele-n cer]

Stars in the sky
Above the bay
Burn and decay
Until they die.

Up to the tips
The masts are shaking
And all are trembling
The wooden ships:

Each like a fortress
Floating on water
To reach the border
Of wilderness.

White cranes, in crowds,
Are soaring high
Into the sky
On moving clouds.

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Ode (in ancient metric) [Odă (în metru antic]

Well, I never thought I would learn to die;
Always young and wrapped in my heavy cloak,
I was looking up to the shining star
Of sad loneliness.

When I saw you there, right in front of me,
O, you misery, aching, but so sweet...
I drank bottoms up the delight of death
Cold and merciless.

I am burning now and like Nessus grieve
Or like Hercules, poisoned by his coat;
But my raging flames cannot be put out
Even by the sea.

And I am consumed only by my dream,
Melting on the stake scalded by the fire...
Could I ever rise shining out of it,
Like the Phoenix bird?

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Each time, my love [De câte ori, iubito]

Each time, my love, when I remember about us
I see the ocean swelling and making such a fuss...
Up in the whitish sky there is no shining star
Only the yellow moon that's watching from afar;
Above the thousand waves the icy ocean brings
A bird is flying high, flapping her weary wings,
Her mate has flown away and headed to the West
Together with the flock that knows which way is best.
In vain she looks for him with pain in her small eyes
She's neither sad nor happy, because she slowly dies
Just dreaming of her life and how it used to be.
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And very far apart we are now, you and me.
Increasingly alone, my soul is dark and bleak
Because you disappeared as quickly as a streak.

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Guardian angel [Înger de pază]

As I was watching calmly and full of bliss at night,
A sublime guardian angel as in a dream came bright,
Clad all in shades and rays which blinded my keen sight
And with a smile, his wings over me gently spread;
But when he saw you dressed in your clothes poor and pale,
My dear lovable child, mysterious and frail,
Appalled by your dark eye, that angel quickly fled.

Are you somehow a demon, for your sad and cold glance
Emerging from your eye that lacks any romance,
Cast out my guardian angel, who took flight from my trance,
He, the divine protector and my friend always true?
Or, maybe!... Your long lashes, so black and full of grace
Can help me to unravel your pale and pretty face,
Since he – he's really you.

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If I had [De-aş avea]

If I had a pretty flower
Fresh and sweet and full of power
Like all those that bloom in May,
Charming daughters of the day,
Growing on a grassy field
Where the grass is moved by wind,
And where people hear above
Gentle whispers full of love;

If I had a little flower
Nice and younger than the hour,
Dressed like lilies at their best
And white like the snowy breast,
Sometimes with a shade of pink,
Sometimes purple like a drink,
Like a song one hears above
Soft like whispers full of love;

If I had a dove as white
As a girl's face shining bright,

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When Memory ...

When memory of bygone days
My spirit would detain
Down long and often trodden ways
I travel the past again.

Above your house are lit as then
The same bright stars of old,
That shone those summer evenings when
My passion's tale I told.

And through the branches' silver lace
The moon peers from above.
As when midst lovers' warm embrace
We whispered of our love.

Our hearts a solemn vow then took
To love for ever and aye;
While tenderly the lilac shook
Its blossoms on our way.

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Why are you so troubled? [Ce te legeni?]

– "Why are you so troubled, forest?
There's no wind and there's no rain
Yet your branches are in pain".
– "Yes, I'm troubled, you know why?
'Cause my life is passing by
Days are shrinking, nights are growing
And my leaves are quickly falling.
Wind is blowing from the bay
Chasing singing birds away
Wind is blowing without fear
Summer's gone, winter is here.
How could I avoid to bow
When the birds are leaving now!
Over branches, in the sky
Swallow flocks are flying high
And I'm watching them go by
Knowing that my hope will die.
And are passing all the day
Darkening the airy way,
And like seconds they are flying

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