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When slattern Time, worn out with toil of wearing,

When slattern Time, worn out with toil of wearing,
With loose‑tied pack shall trudge upon my years,
And I shall feel that forced occasion nearing
That despair's self (that must live to be) fears,

I, being beggared of all wealth of hope -
So prodigal have I to wishes been -
Shall with known uselessness for the coin grope
To pay that the hour’s ending be serene.

I shall not enter the great silent cave
With curious ardour, or ease out of sun,
But all that with me I shall then still have
Will be a coward rage that all is done.

No hope the cave's a passage shall control
Fear of the immediate night of the shown hole.
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45 - THE LOOPHOLE

I shall not come when thou wilt call,
        For when thou call'st I am with thee.
        When I think of thee, within me
Thyself art, and thy thought self’s all.

Thy presence is thy absence drest
        In thy body that hides thy soul.
Tis in me that thou art possessed,
        'Tis in my thoughts that thou art whole.

Outside thee, given to time and space,
        Thy body, thy mere loss to me,
Partakes of change and age and place?
        Belongs to other laws than thee.

In my dream of thee nothing changes
        Thyself to other than thou art.
        Thy corporal presence is that part
Of thee that thee from thee estranges.

Therefore call me, but await not.
        Thy voice, summed to my dreaming thee,
Shall put new beauty on that thought
        Of thy body that dwells in me.

Thy voice heard from afar shall bring
        Nearer to me thy presence dreamed.
        Brighter and clearer than it seemed
It grow'th in my imagining.

Then call no more. Thy voice twice heard
        Along the real space would be
        Too near now to reality.
Thy second voice were thy first blurred.

Call me but once. I close mine eyes
        And let the second call be dreamed,
        Thy body's vision lightly gleamed
On my seeing memory of thy cries.

The rest, eyes shut lest thou appear.
        Shall be thy clear continuance
        In my dream's constancy askance.
Keep far, keep silent, come not here,

For thou wouldst come too near for sight
        And out of my thoughts step to thee,
        Putting on thy dreamed body in me
        (Thy body's form‑dream infinite)
        Thy limit, visibility.
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TRAMWAY

TRAMWAY

Aqui vou eu num carro eléctrico, mais umas trinta ou quarenta pessoas,
Cheio (só) das minhas ideias imortais, (creio que boas).

Amanhã elas, postas em verso, serão
Por toda a Europa, por todo o mundo (quem sabe?!)
Triunfo meta, início, clarão
Que talvez não acabe.

E quem sobe? Que sente? O que vai a meu lado
Só sente em mim que sou o que, estrangeiro,
Tem o lugar da ponta, e do extremo, apanhado
Por quem entra primeiro.

Que o que vale são as ideias que tenho, enfim,
O resto, o que aqui está sentado, sou eu,
Vestido, visual, regular, sempre em mim,
Sob o azul do céu.

Ah, Destino dos deuses, dai-me ao menos o siso
Ao que em mim pensa a vida de ter um profundo
Senso essencial, mas certeiro e conciso
Da vida e do mundo!

Sei, sob o céu que é que toca as minhas ideias,
Sob o céu mais análogo ao que penso comigo
Que este carro vai com os bancos cheios
Para onde eu sigo.

E o ponto de absurdo de tudo isto qual é?
Onde é que está aqui o erro que sinto?
A minha razão enternecida aqui perde pé
E pensando minto,

Mas a que verdade minto, que ponte,
Há entre o que é falso aqui e o que é certo?
Se o que sinto e penso, não sei sequer como o conte,
Se o que está a descoberto

Agora no meu meditar é uma treva e um abismo
Que hei-de fazer da minha consciência dividida?
Oh, carro absurdo e irreal, onde está quanto cismo?
De que lado é que é a vida?
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Trazes um manto comprido

Trazes um manto comprido
Que não é xaile a valer.
Eu trago em ti o sentido
E não sei que hei-de dizer.
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Mas eu, alheio sempre, sempre entrando

Mas eu, alheio sempre, sempre entrando
O mais íntimo ser da minha vida,
Vou dentro em mim a sombra procurando.
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ODE IN CONSOLATION FOR MISFORTUNE

He that would conquer must a soldier be.
He that a soldier will be must be made
To bear all the hard preface of his trade,
        All the rough training must he bear
Whereby he shall the conqueror
……

All pain, all failure and all woe ­
These are but training we must undergo
Ere those heights of ourselves we full can reach
        Whence God has things to teach
And the discarnate fate that girds us round
        Still more to teach and more to wound.

With patience and with fortitude
        Bear thou thy training rude,
Support with grace thy masters that are days
        Made of pain and amaze,
Thy potion take, even it that potion look
That Socrates for his divinity took.

To Aesculape the cock immolate,
        To the Masters of thy fate
Abandon life, thyself strong above all
        Thy power to let things thee appall,
By the sole virtue of thy power set far
        Over thy power to feel fate's war.

The rest, that thing that shall remain of thee
        When land and sky and sea
Alike are mist in thy unseeing eyes,
        This shall nowise
Mater, nor all when all is thine abode,
        Nor God himself when all is God.
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Dona Rosa, Dona Rosa,/Quando eras inda botão

Dona Rosa, Dona Rosa,
Quando eras inda botão
Disseram-te alguma cousa
De a flor não ter coração?
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Ai, Margarida,

Ai, Margarida,
Se eu te desse a minha vida,
Que farias tu com ela?
— Tirava os brincos do prego,
Casava c'um homem cego
E ia morar para a Estrela.

Mas, Margarida,
Se eu te desse a minha vida,
Que diria tua mãe?
— (Ela conhece-me a fundo.)
Que há muito parvo no mundo,
E que eras parvo também.

E, Margarida,
Se eu te desse a minha vida
No sentido de morrer?
— Eu iria ao teu enterro,
Mas achava que era um erro
Querer amar sem viver.

Mas, Margarida,
Se este dar-te a minha vida
Não fosse senão poesia?
— Então, filho, nada feito.
Fica tudo sem efeito.
Nesta casa não se fia.

Comunicado pelo Engenheiro Naval
       Sr. Álvaro de Campos em estado
                de inconsciência
                         alcoólica.
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Mas que grande disparate

Mas que grande disparate
É o que penso e o que sinto.
Meu coração bate, bate
E se sonho muito, minto.
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47 - FIAT LUX

Into a vision before me the world
Flowered, and it as when a flag, unfurled,
Suddenly shows unknown colours and signs.
        Into an unknown meaning, evident
And unknown ever, it outspread its lines
        Of meaning to my passive wonderment.
The outward and the inward became one.
Feelings and thoughts were visible in shapes,
And flowers and trees as feelings, thoughts. Great capes
Stood out of Soul, thrust into conscious seas,
And on all this a man‑sky spoke its breeze.

Each thing was linked into each other thing
By links of being past imagining,
But visible, as if the skeleton
Were visible and the flesh round it, each one
As if a separate thing visibly alone.

There was no difference between a tree
And an idea. Seeing a river be
And the exterior river were one thing.
The bird's soul and the motion of its wing
Were an inextricable oneness made.
And all this I saw, seeing not, dismayed
With the New God this vision told me of;
For this was aught I could not speak nor love
But a new sentiment not like all others,
Nought like the human feelings, men are brothers
In feeling, woke on my astonished spirit.
With a great suddenness did this disinherit
That thought that looks through mine eyes of the pelf
Of ordered seeing that maketh it itself.

O horror set with mad joy to appal!
O self‑transcendency of all!
O inner infinity of each thing, that now
Suddenly was made visible and local, though
No manner of speech to speak these things in words

Followed that vision! Sight whose sense absurds
Likeness of like, and makes disparity
Contiguous innerly to unity!

How to express what, seen, is not expressed
To the struck sight that sees it? How to know
What comes to senses' threshold to bestow
A visible ignorance upon the knowing?
How to obey the analogy‑behest,
Community in unity to prove
The intellectual meaning of to love,
Shipwrecking difference upon the sight
Renewed from God to Inwards infinite?

Nothing: the exterior world inner expressed,
The flower of the whole vision of the world
        Into its colour of absolutely meaning
In the night unfurled,
And therefore nought unfurling, abstract, that,
        Vision self‑screening,
Patent invisible fact.

Nothing: all,
And I centre of to recall,
        As if Seeing were a god.
The rest the presence of to see,
Hollow self‑sensed infinity,
        And all my being‑not‑souled‑to‑oneness trod
To fragments in my sight‑dishevelled sight.

This Night is Light.
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Comentários (17)

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Gabriel
Gabriel
2025-09-17

What?

ademir domingos zanotelli
ademir domingos zanotelli
2025-07-27

Simplesmente um pensador ( tão grande) pois todos nós temos máscaras, nossos sentimentos são todos ocultos na nossa eterna alma. fantástico este texto para sua época vivida.

rodrigl
rodrigl
2023-12-01

cmt

tomaslopes
tomaslopes
2023-06-23

O maior e mais pensador poeta para a sua antiga época. O maior e mais revolucionista da literatura portuguesa, com os seus poemas e textos que enchem a alma de pensamentos. Tem um forma única de se expressar e ditar o que vem da sua alma, como ele dizia " Quem tem alma não tem calma".

mcegonha
mcegonha
2023-04-21

O profeta dos poetas!