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| Cena emblemática de "Sociedade dos Poetas Mortos" |
Oh Captain, my Captain
Walt Whitman
Estados Unidos, 31 de maio de 1819 – 26 de março de 1892
Ó capitão! Meu capitão! terminou a nossa terrível viagem,
O navio resistiu a todas as tormentas,
o prêmio que buscávamos está ganho,
O porto está próximo, ouço os sinos,
toda a gente está exultante,
Enquanto segue com os olhos a firme quilha,
o ameaçador e temerário navio;
Mas, oh coração! coração! coração!
Oh as gotas vermelhas e sangrentas,
onde no convés o meu capitão jaz,
tombado, frio e morto.
Ó capitão! meu capitão!
Ergue-te e ouve os sinos;
Ergue-te – a bandeira agita-se por ti, o cornetim vibra por ti;
Para ti ramos de flores e grinaldas guarnecidas com fitas –
para ti as multidões nas praias,
Chamam por ti, as massas, agitam-se,
os seus rostos ansiosos voltam-se;
Aqui capitão! querido pai!
Passo o braço por baixo da tua cabeça!
Não passa de um sonho que, no convés,
Tenhas tombado frio e morto.
O meu capitão não responde,
os seus lábios estão pálidos e imóveis,
O meu pai não sente o meu braço,
não tem pulso nem vontade,
O navio ancorou são e salvo,
a viagem terminou e está concluída,
O navio vitorioso chega da terrível viagem
com o objetivo ganho:
Exultai, ó praias, e tocai, ó sinos!
Mas eu com um passo desolado,
Caminho no convés onde jaz o meu capitão,
Tombado, frio e morto.
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O Captain! My Captain!
Walt Whitman
O Captain! my Captain! our fearful trip is done,
The ship has weather’d every rack, the prize we sought is won,
The port is near, the bells I hear, the people all exulting,
While follow eyes the steady keel, the vessel grim and daring;
But O heart! heart! heart!
O the bleeding drops of red,
Where on the deck my Captain lies,
Fallen cold and dead.
O Captain! my Captain! rise up and hear the bells;
Rise up—for you the flag is flung—for you the bugle trills,
For you bouquets and ribbon’d wreaths—for you the shores a-crowding,
For you they call, the swaying mass, their eager faces turning;
Here Captain! dear father!
This arm beneath your head!
It is some dream that on the deck,
You’ve fallen cold and dead.
My Captain does not answer, his lips are pale and still,
My father does not feel my arm, he has no pulse nor will,
The ship is anchor’d safe and sound, its voyage closed and done,
From fearful trip the victor ship comes in with object won;
Exult O shores, and ring O bells!
But I with mournful tread,
Walk the deck my Captain lies,
Fallen cold and dead.
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Fonte: Leaves of Grass (David McKay, 1891)
O Captain! My Captain!
Walt Whitman
O Captain! my Captain! our fearful trip is done,
The ship has weather’d every rack, the prize we sought is won,
The port is near, the bells I hear, the people all exulting,
While follow eyes the steady keel, the vessel grim and daring;
But O heart! heart! heart!
O the bleeding drops of red,
Where on the deck my Captain lies,
Fallen cold and dead.
O Captain! my Captain! rise up and hear the bells;
Rise up—for you the flag is flung—for you the bugle trills,
For you bouquets and ribbon’d wreaths—for you the shores a-crowding,
For you they call, the swaying mass, their eager faces turning;
Here Captain! dear father!
This arm beneath your head!
It is some dream that on the deck,
You’ve fallen cold and dead.
My Captain does not answer, his lips are pale and still,
My father does not feel my arm, he has no pulse nor will,
The ship is anchor’d safe and sound, its voyage closed and done,
From fearful trip the victor ship comes in with object won;
Exult O shores, and ring O bells!
But I with mournful tread,
Walk the deck my Captain lies,
Fallen cold and dead.
* * *
Fonte: Leaves of Grass (David McKay, 1891)
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