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Literature
Medium
F. Pessoa - Heterónimos ingleses
BNP/E3, 49A2 – 62
BNP/E3, 49A2 – 62
Fernando Pessoa
Identificação
Fernando Pessoa – “Pale emerald trait of men…”

[BNP/E3, 49A2 – 62]

 

3-8-08.

Pale emerald trait of men

Becoming bless in the hushed sky

Feeling as I were born?

Why must I die?

Since that not so form and fair

Some that inaction must know.

Tell me, why my form and †?

Ay, only must I suffer so?    

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[…] 1820): “Lectures on the Philo-

[…] on the Human Mind.”

[…] ered a 6th. sense, called the “muscular”).

 

[62v]

 

This individualization is of course limited fraction.

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For, so fair, blame anon and woe

In the vast horizon deep,

When here I know thee before?

Why looking on thee do I weep?

_______

Far, oh pale to lure and light

Cease, feel trite, easily and fine,

Why ask thou my soul’s delight?

Tell, oh, for but I prime?

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Classificação
Literatura
Dados Físicos
Dados de produção
3-8-1908.
Inglês
Dados de conservação
Biblioteca Nacional de Portugal
Palavras chave
Documentação Associada
Patricrio Ferrari, «Bridging Archives: Twenty-¬Five Unpublished English Poems by Fernando Pessoa», In: Pessoa Plural: 8 (O./Fall 2015) pp. 383-384.