
«Чувство прекрасного совлекает нас
с путей праведных». Джеймс Джойс
«Родная,
мой дикий цветок,
вьющийся по ограде.
Да, мой небесный, пьющий дожди, цветок!..
любимая, будь же
моей — навсегда, сколько хочешь, моей
дождевой, голубой, по небесной ограде
бегущей, цветущей моей повиликой!»
Из письма Джойса к Норе Барнакл
XXII
Of that so sweet imprisonment
My soul, dearest, is fain —
Soft arms that woo me to relent
And woo me to detain.
Ah, could they ever hold me there
Gladly were I a prisoner!
Dearest, through interwoven arms
By love made tremulous,
That night allures me where alarms
Nowise may trouble us;
But sleep to dreamier sleep be wed
Where soul with soul lies prisoned.
XXIII
This heart that flutters near my heart
My hope and all my riches is,
Unhappy when we draw apart
And happy between kiss and kiss;
My hope and all my riches — yes! —
And all my happiness.
For there, as in some mossy nest
The wrens will divers treasures keep,
I laid those treasures I possessed
Ere that mine eyes had learned to weep.
Shall we not be as wise as they
Though love live but a day?



