Расставание. Джон Донн

“РАССТАВАНИЕ”
Джон Донн

Давай прервём наш
страстный поцелуй,
В котором слились наши души,
наши страсти воспарили;
Отсюда, призрак мой,
ты сгинь и дай произнести
Слова, чтоб огорчить
счастливейший наш день.
Ни ты, ни я не можем
перестать любить,
не стоит нам
легко, как смерть,
сказать «Прощай!».
Уйди, и если
это слово тебя
ещё не погубило,
Дай мне уйти -
желаю я исчезнуть тоже.
Иль, если в силе он,
пусть сбудется призыв
И справедливая
свершится смерть.
Но только поздно
так меня убить,
Я дважды мёртв,
я ухожу,
я не желаю жить.

“THE EXPIRATION”
John Donne

So, so, break off
this last
lamenting kiss,
Which sucks two souls,
and vapours both away;
Turn, thou ghost,
that way,
and let me turn this,
And let ourselves
benight our happiest day.
We ask none leave
to love; nor will we owe
  Any so cheap
a death as saying, “Go.”
Go; and if that
word have not
quite killed thee,
    Ease me with death,
by bidding me go too.
Or, if it have,
let my word work on me,
And a just
office on a murderer do.
Except it be too late,
to kill me so,
    Being double dead,
going, and bidding, “Go.”

The expiration - parting:

Just a basic over-view:
the poem is, on the surface,
about death and the parting
of two souls. But the
"parting of two souls"
can also be interpreted
аs a physical distance
taken between two people -
perhaps one is travelling
away from their lover, etc.
Тhere are a variety
of possibilities.
The focal point is the
idea of one's last
breath also being one's
soul leaving their body
as death encompasses them.
"vapors" is a word with
quite a different meaning
to today's; rather than
simply relating to gasses,
as one would now think,
it deals with ghosts,
spirits, and the
above-mentioned
"last breath = soul".
The idea of death also
links to matters of
a sexual nature, re:
"little death".
"Double dead", ets.