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Pleun Andriessen
Pleun Andriessen (11) is de nieuwe Kinderstadsdichter van Tilburg. Pleun schreef speciaal voor Gedichtendag, 26 januari 2012, een nieuw gedicht. Het past mooi binnen het thema van deze dag, ‘Stroom’: ‘Stroom is ritme, flow, een vloeiende en ongrijpbare beweging van A naar B, dankzij een teveel aan de ene of een tekort aan de andere kant. Stromen kunnen uit woorden bestaan, uit lading, gedachten, uit informatie, stoffen of dingen. Stromen verbinden plekken op deze wereld en brengen mensen bij elkaar. Of juist niet. ‘Stroom’ is er altijd en overal.’
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Heinrich Heine
(1797-1856)
Seekrankheit
Die grauen Nachmittagswolken
Senken sich tiefer hinab auf das Meer,
Das ihnen dunkel entgegensteigt,
Und zwischendurch jagt das Schiff.
Seekrank sitz ich noch immer am Mastbaum,
Und mache Betrachtungen über mich selber,
Uralte, aschgraue Betrachtungen,
Die schon der Vater Loth gemacht,
Als er des Guten zuviel genossen
Und sich nachher so übel befand.
Mitunter denk ich auch alter Geschichtchen:
Wie kreuzbezeichnete Pilger der Vorzeit,
Auf stürmischer Meerfahrt, das trostreiche Bildnis
Der heiligen Jungfrau gläubig küßten;
Wie kranke Ritter, in solcher Seenot,
Den lieben Handschuh ihrer Dame
An die Lippen preßten, gleich getröstet –
Ich aber sitze und kaue verdrießlich
Einen alten Hering, den salzigen Tröster
In Katzenjammer und Hundetrübsal!
Vergebens späht mein Auge und sucht
Die deutsche Küste. Doch ach! nur Wasser,
Und abermals Wasser, bewegtes Wasser!
Wie der Winterwandrer des Abends sich sehnt
Nach einer warmen, innigen Tasse Tee,
So sehnt sich jetzt mein Herz nach dir,
Mein deutsches Vaterland!
Mag immerhin dein süßer Boden bedeckt sein
Mit Wahnsinn, Husaren, schlechten Versen
Und laulich dünnen Traktätchen;
Mögen immerhin deine Zebras
Mit Rosen sich mästen statt Disteln;
Mögen immerhin deine noblen Affen
In müßigem Putz sich vornehm spreizen
Und sich besser dünken als all das andre
Banausisch dahinwandelnde Hornvieh;
Mag immerhin deine Schneckenversammlung
Sich für unsterblich halten,
Weil sie so langsam dahinkriecht,
Und mag sie täglich Stimmen sammeln,
Ob den Maden des Käses der Käse gehört?
Und noch lange Zeit in Beratung ziehen,
Wie man die ägyptischen Schafe veredle,
Damit ihre Wolle sich beßre
Und der Hirt sie scheren könne wie andre,
Ohn Unterschied –
Immerhin, mag Torheit und Unrecht
Dich ganz bedecken, o Deutschland!
Ich sehne mich dennoch nach dir:
Denn wenigstens bist du noch festes Land.
Hans Hermans photos – Natuurdagboek 11-11
Gedicht Heinrich Heine
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James Joyce
(1882-1941)
After The Race
The cars came scudding in towards Dublin, running evenly like pellets in the groove of the Naas Road. At the crest of the hill at Inchicore sightseers had gathered in clumps to watch the cars careering homeward and through this channel of poverty and inaction the Continent sped its wealth and industry. Now and again the clumps of people raised the cheer of the gratefully oppressed. Their sympathy, however, was for the blue cars, the cars of their friends, the French.
The French, moreover, were virtual victors. Their team had finished solidly; they had been placed second and third and the driver of the winning German car was reported a Belgian. Each blue car, therefore, received a double measure of welcome as it topped the crest of the hill and each cheer of welcome was acknowledged with smiles and nods by those in the car. In one of these trimly built cars was a party of four young men whose spirits seemed to be at present well above the level of successful Gallicism: in fact, these four young men were almost hilarious. They were Charles Segouin, the owner of the car; Andre Riviere, a young electrician of Canadian birth; a huge Hungarian named Villona and a neatly groomed young man named Doyle. Segouin was in good humour because he had unexpectedly received some orders in advance (he was about to start a motor establishment in Paris) and Riviere was in good humour because he was to be appointed manager of the establishment; these two young men (who were cousins) were also in good humour because of the success of the French cars. Villona was in good humour because he had had a very satisfactory luncheon; and besides he was an optimist by nature. The fourth member of the party, however, was too excited to be genuinely happy.
He was about twenty-six years of age, with a soft, light brown moustache and rather innocent-looking grey eyes. His father, who had begun life as an advanced Nationalist, had modified his views early. He had made his money as a butcher in Kingstown and by opening shops in Dublin and in the suburbs he had made his money many times over. He had also been fortunate enough to secure some of the police contracts and in the end he had become rich enough to be alluded to in the Dublin newspapers as a merchant prince. He had sent his son to England to be educated in a big Catholic college and had afterwards sent him to Dublin University to study law. Jimmy did not study very earnestly and took to bad courses for a while. He had money and he was popular; and he divided his time curiously between musical and motoring circles. Then he had been sent for a term to Cambridge to see a little life. His father, remonstrative, but covertly proud of the excess, had paid his bills and brought him home. It was at Cambridge that he had met Segouin. They were not much more than acquaintances as yet but Jimmy found great pleasure in the society of one who had seen so much of the world and was reputed to own some of the biggest hotels in France. Such a person (as his father agreed) was well worth knowing, even if he had not been the charming companion he was. Villona was entertaining also, a brilliant pianist, but, unfortunately, very poor.
The car ran on merrily with its cargo of hilarious youth. The two cousins sat on the front seat; Jimmy and his Hungarian friend sat behind. Decidedly Villona was in excellent spirits; he kept up a deep bass hum of melody for miles of the road The Frenchmen flung their laughter and light words over their shoulders and often Jimmy had to strain forward to catch the quick phrase. This was not altogether pleasant for him, as he had nearly always to make a deft guess at the meaning and shout back a suitable answer in the face of a high wind. Besides Villona’s humming would confuse anybody; the noise of the car, too.
Rapid motion through space elates one; so does notoriety; so does the possession of money. These were three good reasons for Jimmy’s excitement. He had been seen by many of his friends that day in the company of these Continentals. At the control Segouin had presented him to one of the French competitors and, in answer to his confused murmur of compliment, the swarthy face of the driver had disclosed a line of shining white teeth. It was pleasant after that honour to return to the profane world of spectators amid nudges and significant looks. Then as to money, he really had a great sum under his control. Segouin, perhaps, would not think it a great sum but Jimmy who, in spite of temporary errors, was at heart the inheritor of solid instincts knew well with what difficulty it had been got together. This knowledge had previously kept his bills within the limits of reasonable recklessness, and if he had been so conscious of the labour latent in money when there had been question merely of some freak of the higher intelligence, how much more so now when he was about to stake the greater part of his substance! It was a serious thing for him.
Of course, the investment was a good one and Segouin had managed to give the impression that it was by a favour of friendship the mite of Irish money was to be included in the capital of the concern. Jimmy had a respect for his father’s shrewdness in business matters and in this case it had been his father who had first suggested the investment; money to be made in the motor business, pots of money. Moreover Segouin had the unmistakable air of wealth. Jimmy set out to translate into days’ work that lordly car in which he sat. How smoothly it ran. In what style they had come careering along the country roads! The journey laid a magical finger on the genuine pulse of life and gallantly the machinery of human nerves strove to answer the bounding courses of the swift blue animal.
They drove down Dame Street. The street was busy with unusual traffic, loud with the horns of motorists and the gongs of impatient tram-drivers. Near the Bank Segouin drew up and Jimmy and his friend alighted. A little knot of people collected on the footpath to pay homage to the snorting motor. The party was to dine together that evening in Segouin’s hotel and, meanwhile, Jimmy and his friend, who was staying with him, were to go home to dress. The car steered out slowly for Grafton Street while the two young men pushed their way through the knot of gazers. They walked northward with a curious feeling of disappointment in the exercise, while the city hung its pale globes of light above them in a haze of summer evening.
In Jimmy’s house this dinner had been pronounced an occasion. A certain pride mingled with his parents’ trepidation, a certain eagerness, also, to play fast and loose for the names of great foreign cities have at least this virtue. Jimmy, too, looked very well when he was dressed and, as he stood in the hall giving a last equation to the bows of his dress tie, his father may have felt even commercially satisfied at having secured for his son qualities often unpurchaseable. His father, therefore, was unusually friendly with Villona and his manner expressed a real respect for foreign accomplishments; but this subtlety of his host was probably lost upon the Hungarian, who was beginning to have a sharp desire for his dinner.
The dinner was excellent, exquisite. Segouin, Jimmy decided, had a very refined taste. The party was increased by a young Englishman named Routh whom Jimmy had seen with Segouin at Cambridge. The young men supped in a snug room lit by electric candle lamps. They talked volubly and with little reserve. Jimmy, whose imagination was kindling, conceived the lively youth of the Frenchmen twined elegantly upon the firm framework of the Englishman’s manner. A graceful image of his, he thought, and a just one. He admired the dexterity with which their host directed the conversation. The five young men had various tastes and their tongues had been loosened. Villona, with immense respect, began to discover to the mildly surprised Englishman the beauties of the English madrigal, deploring the loss of old instruments. Riviere, not wholly ingenuously, undertook to explain to Jimmy the triumph of the French mechanicians. The resonant voice of the Hungarian was about to prevail in ridicule of the spurious lutes of the romantic painters when Segouin shepherded his party into politics. Here was congenial ground for all. Jimmy, under generous influences, felt the buried zeal of his father wake to life within him: he aroused the torpid Routh at last. The room grew doubly hot and Segouin’s task grew harder each moment: there was even danger of personal spite. The alert host at an opportunity lifted his glass to Humanity and, when the toast had been drunk, he threw open a window significantly.
That night the city wore the mask of a capital. The five young men strolled along Stephen’s Green in a faint cloud of aromatic smoke. They talked loudly and gaily and their cloaks dangled from their shoulders. The people made way for them. At the corner of Grafton Street a short fat man was putting two handsome ladies on a car in charge of another fat man. The car drove off and the short fat man caught sight of the party.
“Andre.”
“It’s Farley!”
A torrent of talk followed. Farley was an American. No one knew very well what the talk was about. Villona and Riviere were the noisiest, but all the men were excited. They got up on a car, squeezing themselves together amid much laughter. They drove by the crowd, blended now into soft colours, to a music of merry bells. They took the train at Westland Row and in a few seconds, as it seemed to Jimmy, they were walking out of Kingstown Station. The ticket-collector saluted Jimmy; he was an old man:
“Fine night, sir!”
It was a serene summer night; the harbour lay like a darkened mirror at their feet. They proceeded towards it with linked arms, singing Cadet Roussel in chorus, stamping their feet at every:
“Ho! Ho! Hohe, vraiment!”
They got into a rowboat at the slip and made out for the American’s yacht. There was to be supper, music, cards. Villona said with conviction:
“It is delightful!”
There was a yacht piano in the cabin. Villona played a waltz for Farley and Riviere, Farley acting as cavalier and Riviere as lady. Then an impromptu square dance, the men devising original figures. What merriment! Jimmy took his part with a will; this was seeing life, at least. Then Farley got out of breath and cried “Stop!” A man brought in a light supper, and the young men sat down to it for form’s sake. They drank, however: it was Bohemian. They drank Ireland, England, France, Hungary, the United States of America. Jimmy made a speech, a long speech, Villona saying: “Hear! hear!” whenever there was a pause. There was a great clapping of hands when he sat down. It must have been a good speech. Farley clapped him on the back and laughed loudly. What jovial fellows! What good company they were!
Cards! cards! The table was cleared. Villona returned quietly to his piano and played voluntaries for them. The other men played game after game, flinging themselves boldly into the adventure. They drank the health of the Queen of Hearts and of the Queen of Diamonds. Jimmy felt obscurely the lack of an audience: the wit was flashing. Play ran very high and paper began to pass. Jimmy did not know exactly who was winning but he knew that he was losing. But it was his own fault for he frequently mistook his cards and the other men had to calculate his I.O.U.’s for him. They were devils of fellows but he wished they would stop: it was getting late. Someone gave the toast of the yacht The Belle of Newport and then someone proposed one great game for a finish.
The piano had stopped; Villona must have gone up on deck. It was a terrible game. They stopped just before the end of it to drink for luck. Jimmy understood that the game lay between Routh and Segouin. What excitement! Jimmy was excited too; he would lose, of course. How much had he written away? The men rose to their feet to play the last tricks. talking and gesticulating. Routh won. The cabin shook with the young men’s cheering and the cards were bundled together. They began then to gather in what they had won. Farley and Jimmy were the heaviest losers.
He knew that he would regret in the morning but at present he was glad of the rest, glad of the dark stupor that would cover up his folly. He leaned his elbows on the table and rested his head between his hands, counting the beats of his temples. The cabin door opened and he saw the Hungarian standing in a shaft of grey light:
“Daybreak, gentlemen!”
James Joyce: After the race
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William Shakespeare
(1564-1616)
THE SONNETS
112
Your love and pity doth th’ impression fill,
Which vulgar scandal stamped upon my brow,
For what care I who calls me well or ill,
So you o’er-green my bad, my good allow?
You are my all the world, and I must strive,
To know my shames and praises from your tongue,
None else to me, nor I to none alive,
That my steeled sense or changes right or wrong.
In so profound abysm I throw all care
Of others’ voices, that my adder’s sense,
To critic and to flatterer stopped are:
Mark how with my neglect I do dispense.
You are so strongly in my purpose bred,
That all the world besides methinks are dead.
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Maandag 23 januari 2012 – Nederland 3, 20:55 uur
24 uur met . . . L.A. Raeven
Over de opmerkelijke kunstenaarstweeling
Liesbeth en Angelique Raeven
Presentatie: Wilfried de Jong
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Vrijdag 27 januari 2012
Verse Beats 2.0
Internationaal programma met dichters, slammers en freestyle mc’s
Bekendmaking nieuwe stadsdichter van Amsterdam
Vrijdagavond 27 januari 2012 presenteren de Literaire Podia Amsterdam en GRAP in de Sugar Factory Verse Beats 2.0: een internationaal programma met poëzie, spoken word, freestyle, comics en muziek.
Die avond brengen dichters, slammers, mc’s & musici uit verschillende Europese landen een gevarieerd programma. Er is ruimte voor cross-overs en verbale confrontaties. Speciale gast is de dichter F. Starik die deze avond afscheid neemt als stadsdichter van Amsterdam. Burgemeester Eberhard van der Laan maakt bekend wie hem als stadsdichter zal opvolgen.
Verse Beats 2.0 is meer dan alleen spoken word en muziek; er is ook een rol weggelegd voor de visuele kunst. Zo brengt sopraan Francis van Broekhuizen Stripsody van Berberian, waarbij door de vj de stripmuziek wordt getoond en gaat Dan Hassler-Forest in op strips als vorm van literatuur. De uit Berlijn afkomstige Wilfried N’Sondé presenteert samen met zijn broer, de musicus Serge N’Sondé poetryslam in het Frans en Duits, Tsjêbbe Hettinga draagt voor in het Fries en Mahdi Nuffari brengt zijn werk in het Arabisch. De vertaalde teksten worden door een vj op scherm geprojecteerd.
Verder zijn er wervelende optredens van Ellen Deckwitz, Tjitse Hofman, Lennard van Rij en T. Martinus. Freestyle mc’s Surya en Robian reageren al rappend op de voordrachten. De beats komen van dj Clean Cut.
De avond wordt afgesloten door B-Movie Orchestra. Het 11man koppige orkest speelt –ondersteund door B-filmbeelden- muziek uit de zestiger jaren. De presentatie is in handen van JNM en Surya.
Verse Beats 2.0 is een initiatief van SLAA, GRAP, School der Poëzie, Sugar Factory, Goethe-Institut, Maison Descartes, OBA, El Hizjra, Feest der Poëzie, Perdu, John Adams Institute, AIDA, British Council, Ons Suriname, Castrum Peregrini en wordt mede mogelijk gemaakt door het Amsterdams Fonds voor de Kunst, Prins Bernhard Cultuurfonds en Stadsdeel Centrum van de Gemeente Amsterdam.
Vrijdag 27 januari 2012 | Sugar Factory | Lijnbaansgracht 238, Amsterdam | Entree: € 9,- (studenten: € 7,50) | Tijd: 20.00 – 00:00 uur | www.sugarfactory.nl
Met: afscheid F. Starik / bekendmaking nieuwe stadsdichter | mc’s Robian & Surya | Wilfried N’Sondé | Ellen Deckwitz | Tsjêbbe Hettinga | Mahdi Nuffari | Lennard van Rij | T. Martinus | Tjitse Hofman | Dan Hassler-Forest | Francis van Broekhuizen | dj Clean Cut | Hosts: JNM & Surya.
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Foto-expo in de Bibliotheek Tilburg
‘Lezen altijd overal’
TILBURG – ‘Lezen altijd overal’. Onder die titel is in januari een fototentoonstelling te zien in de hoofdvestiging van de Openbare Bibliotheek Tilburg aan het Koningsplein. Lezende mensen van vroeger en nu staan hierbij centraal.
De betreffende leesfoto’s werden ingestuurd door Midden-Brabanders na een oproep van de Stichting Dr. P.J. Cools msc. Deze stichting organiseert de jaarlijks terugkerende tweedehandsboekenmarkt ‘Boeken rond het Paleis’. Van de 125 ingestuurde foto’s – voornamelijk afkomstig uit familiealbums – werden er 83 opgenomen in een boekje dat samengesteld werd door Joep Eijkens. De oudste foto dateert van rond 1865, de jongste van 2011.
De gratis toegankelijke tentoonstelling omvat overigens niet alleen alle foto’s uit het boekje maar ook een deel van de niet geselecteerde foto’s.
Lezen altijd overal. Leesfoto’s 1865 – 2011
Joep Eijkens (samenst.)
stichting Dr. P.J. Cools msc, Tilburg 2011
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verkrijgbaar bij boekhandel Livius Tilburg
Expositie Openbare Bibliotheek Tilburg in januari 2012
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Clemens Brentano
(1778-1842)
Die Abendwinde wehen . . .
Die Abendwinde wehen,
Ich muß zur Linde gehen,
Muß einsam weinend stehen,
Es kommt kein Sternenschein;
Die kleinen Vöglein sehen
Betrübt zu mir und flehen,
Und wenn sie schlafen gehen,
Dann wein ich ganz allein!
»Ich hör ein Sichlein rauschen,
Wohl rauschen durch den Klee,
Ich hör ein Mägdlein klagen
Von Weh, von bitterm Weh!«
Ich soll ein Lied dir singen,
Ich muß die Hände ringen,
Das Herz will mir zerspringen
In bittrer Tränenflut,
Ich sing und möchte weinen,
So lang der Mond mag scheinen,
Sehn ich mich nach der Einen,
Bei der mein Leiden ruht!
»Ich hör ein Sichlein rauschen etc.«
Mein Herz muß nun vollenden,
Da sich die Zeit will wenden,
Es fällt mir aus den Händen
Der letzte Lebenstraum.
Entsetzliches Verschwenden
In allen Elementen,
Mußt ich den Geist verpfänden,
Und alles war nur Schaum!
»Ich hör ein Sichlein rauschen etc.«
Was du mir hast gegeben,
Genügt ein ganzes Leben
Zum Himmel zu erheben;
O sage, ich sei dein!
Da kehrt sie sich mit Schweigen
Und gibt kein Lebenszeichen,
Da mußte ich erbleichen,
Mein Herz ward wie ein Stein.
»Ich hör ein Sichlein rauschen etc.«
Heb Frühling jetzt die Schwingen,
Laß kleine Vöglein singen,
Laß Blümlein aufwärts dringen,
Süß Lieb geht durch den Hain.
Ich mußt mein Herz bezwingen,
Muß alles niederringen,
Darf nichts zu Tage bringen,
Wir waren nicht allein!
»Ich hör ein Sichlein rauschen etc.«
Wenn du von deiner Schwelle
Mit deinen Augen helle,
Wie letzte Lebenswelle
Zum Strom der Nacht mich treibst,
Da weiß ich, daß sie Schmerzen
Gebären meinem Herzen
Und löschen alle Kerzen,
Daß du mir leuchtend bleibst!
»Ich hör ein Sichlein rauschen,
Wohl rauschen durch den Klee,
Ich hör ein Mägdlein klagen
Von Weh, von bitterm Weh!«
Hans Hermans foto’s – Natuurdagboek 10-11
Gedicht Clemens Brentano
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Oscar Wilde
(1854-1900)
The Grave of Keats
(sonnet)
Rid of the world’s injustice, and his pain,
He rests at last beneath God’s veil of blue:
Taken from life when life and love were new
The youngest of the martyrs here is lain,
Fair as Sebastian, and as early slain.
No cypress shades his grave, no funeral yew,
But gentle violets weeping with the dew
Weave on his bones an ever-blossoming chain.
O proudest heart that broke for misery!
O sweetest lips since those of Mitylene!
O poet-painter of our English land!
Thy name was writ in water – it shall stand:
And tears like mine will keep thy memory green,
As Isabella did her Basil tree.
Rome
Oscar Wilde
Het graf van Keats
(sonnet)
In de nieuwe vertaling van Cornelis W. Schoneveld
Van ‘s werelds onrecht en zijn pijn bevrijd,
Rust hij op ‘t laatst onder God’s hemelbaan:
Uit liefde en leven, nieuw nog, heengegaan
Ligt hier de jongste lijder neergevlijd,
Schoon als Sebastiaan, even jong ook dood.
Hier geeft cipres noch taxus schaduw af,
Maar waar viooltjes wenen op zijn graf
Is zijn gebeente nooit van bloei ontbloot.
O hart vol trots dat brak door hoe het leed!
O stem die ‘t zoetst sinds Mytylene’s is!
O schilder-dichter van ons Engeland!
Je schreef je naam in water-hij houdt stand:
En ook mijn traan steunt jouw gedachtenis,
Zoals Isabella’s balsemkruid dat deed.
Rome
VALLEND BLOEMBLAD
Verzameling van 90 korte gedichten van OSCAR WILDE
Vertaald door Cornelis W. Schoneveld
tweetalige uitgave, 2011
ongepubliceerd
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Renée Crevel
(1900-1935)
Tu as le remord
Tu as le remords d’avoir tué ton père sans avoir même acquis cent années de souvenirs.
Toujours les neurasthénies comme des fleurs en mie de pain.
Si tu essayais du tric-trac.
Sautent les dés.
Homme ou femme?
Chien ou chat?
Mais il y aura le chien qui sera tout de même un chat,
encore la vieille chanson des départs qui restent
et puis ce fauteuil de bois.
Les poitrines n’ont plus qu’un sein tout en haut des corps sans sexes;
Ton enfance fut aux curés en jupes de femmes;
dans la crypte du Sacré-Coeur tu n’as pas su faire l’amour.
Un oiseau dans ton cerveau.
Cet oiseau sans voix,
cet oiseau qui n’a pas volé,
cet oiseau qui n’a pas chanté,
apte au seul frisson de l’inutilité.
Comme des frères il aimait,
les bateaux petits;
bateaux colibris,
leur essaim posé
n’a rien enseigné.
Rouille, sang de carcasses
figé dans la mort,
et puis toujours et puis encor
alentour une eau si lasse
avec le plomb des ménagères
trop souvent mères.
Tu as froid mais ne sait ni mourir ni pleurer.
Triste entre les quais méchants
que tout homme ici-bas méprise,
tu vas, fleuve des villes grises
et sans espoir d’océan
Renée Crevel poetry
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William Shakespeare
Sonnet 111
O for my sake do you with Fortune chide,
The guilty goddess of my harmful deeds,
That did not better for my life provide,
Than public means which public manners breeds.
Thence comes it that my name receives a brand,
And almost thence my nature is subdued
To what it works in, like the dyer’s hand:
Pity me then, and wish I were renewed,
Whilst like a willing patient I will drink,
Potions of eisel ‘gainst my strong infection,
No bitterness that I will bitter think,
Nor double penance to correct correction.
Pity me then dear friend, and I assure ye,
Even that your pity is enough to cure me.
William Shakespeare
Sonnet 111
O, straf jij eens voor mij Fortuna af,
Godin die mij met kwade daden nekt,
En mij aan leven niet veel beters gaf
Dan wat volks geld aan volks gedrag verwekt.
Zo kwam dat brandmerk op mijn naam tot stand,
En dompelde zich bijna heel mijn aard
Daarin waarmee zij werkt, als ‘n ververshand;
Heb meelij dus, en acht iets nieuws mij waard,
En, als ‘n patiënt zo meegaand, drink ik dan:
Azijndrank helpt mij van besmetting af,
Geen bitterheid waar ik niet tegen kan,
Geen dubbele straffen schuw ik voor mijn straf.
Heb meelij dus, mijn vriend, en volg mijn lezing,
Dat meelij al volstaat voor mijn genezing.
(Vertaling: Cornelis W. Schoneveld, januari 2012)
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Joseph von Eichendorff
(1788—1857)
Waldgespräch
Es ist schon spät, es wird schon kalt,
Was reitst du einsam durch den Wald?
Der Wald ist lang, du bist allein,
Du schöne Braut! Ich führ dich heim!
»Groß ist der Männer Trug und List,
Vor Schmerz mein Herz gebrochen ist,
Wohl irrt das Waldhorn her und hin,
O flieh! Du weißt nicht, wer ich bin.«
»Du kennst mich wohl – von hohem Stein
Schaut still mein Schloß tief in den Rhein.
Es ist schon spät, es wird schon kalt,
Kommst nimmermehr aus diesem Wald!«
Hans Hermans photos – Natuurdagboek 9-11
Gedicht Joseph von Eichendorff
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