Rosy-fingered dawn
Jun. 2nd, 2008 04:31 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
lprovenAwake! For morning, in the bowl of night
Hath cast the stone that put the stars to flight
And lo, the hunter of the East has caught
The Sultan's turret in a noose of light.
Lovely poem, awesome translation. I read it to a girl once. She fell asleep. Poetry: not always a great seduction technique. Mind you, a fragment of Beowulf did very well, once.
Looming terrifyingly soon is the solstice, too, of course, a particularly significant dawn...
Hath cast the stone that put the stars to flight
And lo, the hunter of the East has caught
The Sultan's turret in a noose of light.
Lovely poem, awesome translation. I read it to a girl once. She fell asleep. Poetry: not always a great seduction technique. Mind you, a fragment of Beowulf did very well, once.
Looming terrifyingly soon is the solstice, too, of course, a particularly significant dawn...
