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GIRL LIKE A LAMPSHADE
Girl like a lampshade – with the Virgin Mary’s
eyes,
Tubercular, transparent, a body in a dream,
Girl – blue, agate, milky, enchanting,
Girl like a lampshade …
What can I do, what can I do so that my soul doesn’t
die,
So that my soul doesn’t burn out in your agate eyes?
What can I do to keep the rainbow tricolored,
To keep the depth of my soul from fading and burning?
Girl like a lampshade – with the Virgin Mary’s
eyes,
Tubercular, transparent, a body in a dream,
Girl – blue, agate, milky, enchanting,
Girl like a lampshade …
1916-1917
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FILLE COMME UN ABAT-JOUR
Fille comme un abat-jour, aux yeux de Vierge Marie,
Tuberculeuse, transparente, comme un corps de rêve,
Fille bleue, lactée, d'agate, enivrante,
Fille comme un abat-jour...
Que ferai-je, que ferai-je que mon âme ne meure pas?
Que mon âme ne s’éteigne dans tes yeux
d'agate ?
Que ferai-je pour que l'arc-en-ciel garde toujours ses trois
couleurs?
Pour que le lointain de mon âme ne s'éteigne
ni ne s'efface?
Fille comme un abat-jour, aux yeux de Vierge Marie,
Tuberculeuse, transparente, comme un corps de rêve,
Fille d'agate, bleue, lactée, enivrante
Fille comme un abat-jour...
1916-1917
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The Armenian poet Yeghishé Charents was born
in Kars, a provincial Armenian city under the rule of
Imperial Russia. At seventeen, already author of published
poems, he joined an Armenian volunteer army to fight
against the Turks for the liberation of his people.
He witnessed the 
calamities
of World War I, and the extermination of his countrymen
in 1915 by the Ottoman Government. The outcome of his
bitter impressions was the poem, “Dante-esque
Legend” which made him famous at nineteen...
