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Title: Antinous: A Poem
Author: Fernando António Nogueira Pessoa
Release Date: January 12, 2008 [EBook #24262]
Language: English
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+ANTINOUS+: A POEM
BY
FERNANDO PESSOA
LISBON
1918
+ANTINOUS+
A POEM
+ANTINOUS+
A POEM
BY
FERNANDO PESSOA
LISBON
MONTEIRO & CO.
190, Rua do Ouro, 192
1918
Printed by «Sociedade Typographica Editora»--100, R. d'Alegria--Lisbon
+ANTINOUS+
It rained outside right into Hadrian's soul.
The boy lay dead
On the low couch, on whose denuded whole,
To Hadrian's eyes, that at their seeing bled,
The shadowy light of Death's eclipse was shed.
The boy lay dead and the day seemed a night
Outside. The rain fell like a sick affright
Of Nature at her work in killing him.
Through the mind's galleries of their past delight
The very light of memory was dim.
O hands that clasped erewhile Hadrian's warm hands,
That now found them but cold!
O hai