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John Keats: “When I have fears” in vertaling van Cornelis W. Schoneveld

John Keats

(1795-1821)

 

“When I have fears”

(sonnet)

 

When I have fears that I may cease to be

Before my pen has gleaned my teeming brain,

Before high-piled books, in charactery,

Hold like rich garners the full ripened grain;

 

When I behold, upon the night’s starred face,

Huge cloudy symbols of a high romance,

And think that I may never live to trace

Their shadows, with the magic hand of chance;

 

And when I feel, fair creature of an hour,

That I shall never look upon thee more,

Never have relish in the fairy power

Of unreflecting love; – then on the shore

 

Of the wide world I stand alone, and think

Till love and fame to nothingness do sink.

 

 

“Als vrees mij treft”

 

Als vrees mij treft datk aan mijn einde ben

Voordat met letters uit mijn vloeiend brein

Een boekenberg gevuld is door mijn pen,

Zoals schuren vol met rijpe granen zijn;

 

Als ik, bij sterrennacht, int wolkenbeeld

Verheven stof voor een Romance zie,

En denk dat mij geen tijd is toebedeeld

Voorn schets daarvan, met de hand van de magie.

 

En als ik voel, schoon schepsel van een uur,

Dat ik met jou nooit nog een weerzien vier,

Nooit meer genoegen schep int tovervuur

Van onbezonnen min; – dan sta ik hier

 

Alleen ops werelds strand, en overweeg –

Tot roem en liefde voos geworden zijn en leeg.

 

Vertaling: Cornelis W. Schoneveld

(in Bestorm mijn hart, de beste Engelse gedichten uit de 16e-19e eeuw, Rainbow Essentials no 55,  pp. 230-31)

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