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3. Diana

inglés

1.

These fair limbs, of size so massive,
Of colossal womanhood,
Now are, in a yielding mood,
Under my embraces passive.

Had I, with unbridled passion,
Trusting in my strength drawn near,
I had soon had cause for fear!
She had thrashed me in strange fashion.

How her bosom, neck, throat charm me
(Higher I can scarcely see);
Ere alone I’d with her be,
Pray I that she may not harm me.

2.

’Twas in the Bay of Biscay
That she first saw the light;
Two kittens in the cradle
She squeezed to death outright.

Across the Pyrenees she
With feet uncover’d ran;
Then for her size gigantic
Was shown at Perpignan.

She’s now the grandest dame in
The Faubourg Saint-Denis,
Where unto small Sir William
Some thousand pounds costs she.

3.

Often when I am with thee,
Much-beloved and noble lady,
The remembrance steals o’er me
Of Bologna’s market shady.
There a massive fount doth stand—
’Tis the Giants’ Fountain pretty—
With a Neptune, by the hand
Of Giovanni of that city.

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Autor
Heinrich Heine (1797–1856) · Wikidata Q44403
Título
3. Diana
Lengua
inglés
Época
Romanticismo
Nota
Traducción de Edgar Alfred Bowring
Sala
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Identificador
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Cita recomendada
Heinrich Heine, «3. Diana», Poetósfera, poetosfera.com/p/ws-en-3-diana--heinrich-heine-97a2dc.html

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