Edgar Allan Poe

Alone

Edgar Allan Poe
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Alone

From childhood’s hour I have not been
As others were - I have not seen
As others saw - I could not bring
My passions from a common spring -
 
From the same source I have not taken
My sorrow - I could not awaken
My heart to joy at the same tone -
And all I lov’d - I lov’d alone -
 
Then - in my childhood - in the dawn
Of a most stormy life - was drawn
From ev’ry depth of good and ill
The mystery which binds me still -
 
From the torrent, or the fountain -
From the red cliff of the mountain -
From the sun that ’round me roll’d
In its autumn tint of gold -
 
From the lightning in the sky
As it pass’d me flying by -
From the thunder, and the storm -
And the cloud that took the form
 
(When the rest of Heaven was blue)
Of a demon in my view
 

Sam

Od dětských chvil jsem nebýval
jak druzí; nic jsem nevídal
jak druzí; ani blaho svoje
nečerpal z kolektivu zdroje.
Odtud však nepramenil ani
můj stesk; já neprobouzel přání
abych svým srdcem souzněl k nim;
já měl rád po svém, citem svým.
Tam — v hloubi dětství, záblesk vnik’
na úsvit bouře žití — vznik’
ze hlubin zla a dobra, vstal
taj, jenž mne navždy upoutal:
 
Z vodopádu, z vodometu,
z rudé skály hory štítu,
z cesty slunce kolem mě
pozlacené jeseně,
z blesku nebeského hnutí
kol mě střemhlav problesknutí,
z hřmotu hromu bouře, z níž
mrak svůj tvar si nabral, když
(v Nebes modři sám jen tak)
démona mi zjevil zrak.
 
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