Poems of 1890

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Hey I wish you were the air so I could breathe you in and see you high in the light and pass through your skin. Where are your arms and your hands and those white and wondrous lands of your shoulders and shining breast – by hunger and thirst I’m possessed. h e r m a n gorter 53
Ik was toen een arme jongen met te groot verlangen. Lange luchten kwamen gevaren Als lichte zeeëbaren Over mijn hoofd, over mijn hoofd – Mijn licht weenend hoofd. Op rezen zonnen, vergingen op hunne goudvurige zwingen, moe viel mijn oog in mijn hoofd. Mijn lichaam was toen zo wonderlijk, elk lid afzonderlijk leefde, ik zag het aan, ik wist niet waar te gaan. De lentenen kwamen met ademen, sleepluchten in sleeplichte wademen en lichte groene groenblondende schromen licht lichtlijk straalvingerend om boomen en glansplekkende wateren en uitgestrekt klateren des eeuwigen hemels en ernstige kemels van wolken, onderwijl loog over de lucht – mijn jeugd, mijn jeugd, vlucht, vlucht, vlucht niet te gauw voorbij, maar blijf bij mij. En donkere nachten met purperblauw gedachten en woorden uit omlage stad – ik zat, ik zat duisteromfonkeld, nachtoogbelonkeld, 54 p o e m s of 1890
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Herman Gorter Poems of 1890 A Selec
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HERMAN GORTER POEMS OF 1890 A SELEC
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These translations are dedicated in
Page 9 and 10: The young Herman was the beneficiar
Page 11 and 12: Perhaps Gorter is being rather disi
Page 13 and 14: Oh I hear her come, oh I feel her c
Page 15 and 16: Gorter’s merits as a propagandist
Page 17 and 18: The oblivious self-giving meant not
Page 19 and 20: And in my room like a dark box encl
Page 22 and 23: POEMS OF 1890
Page 24 and 25: When no leaf stirred, long ago in t
Page 26 and 27: once sat quietly and read, I the bo
Page 28 and 29: O h when the sun shines and the ear
Page 30 and 31: Your back is oh so white, tanned fl
Page 32 and 33: You’re a silent white gleam of br
Page 34 and 35: You’re a dusky white lily girl, Y
Page 36 and 37: You’re the open one, white, and w
Page 38 and 39: The sun. Yellow and gold is the wor
Page 40 and 41: The silent road the glowing moonlit
Page 42 and 43: The trees were all still, the sky w
Page 44 and 45: The heathlands quietly stand, and a
Page 46 and 47: It’s greyish-sickly-pale, it’s
Page 48 and 49: I ’m alone in the lamplight, impa
Page 50 and 51: You stand so very still with your h
Page 52 and 53: The spring comes from afar, I hear
Page 54 and 55: skies that everywhere jangle? with
Page 56 and 57: We feel like two tall, spring-red f
Page 58 and 59: The beach was still and white I sat
Page 62 and 63: was a poor boy then I with too grea
Page 64 and 65: against the pillow I pushed, my wil
Page 66 and 67: a poor child saw one day, ages ago,
Page 68 and 69: She sits still, looks ahead past he
Page 70 and 71: It’s black and dark, chamber-dark
Page 72 and 73: The town was wet with the rain, the
Page 74 and 75: The sky was yellow as yellow chrysa
Page 76 and 77: I n the stillness of the town she c
Page 78 and 79: Then the gatekeepers’ golden horn
Page 80 and 81: your gold head descended to swan-do
Page 82 and 83: The golden panache of the sun, a mo
Page 84 and 85: wish to you I could give I deep sol
Page 86 and 87: light, high as the sky so tall, gol
Page 88 and 89: You see I love you, love, I think y
Page 90 and 91: All those grey days, their stiff sm
Page 92 and 93: Two lamps shining, the mirror dims
Page 94 and 95: T he trees wave on the hills treeto
Page 96 and 97: BIBLIOGRAPHY OF GORTER’S POETRY I
Page 98 and 99: Vitkovsky, E., 500 let poezii Nider
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