I Dedicate to Your Tears, to Your Smile, Poem by Emile Verhaeren

Poem by Emile Verhaeren Period 19th century

I dedicate to your tears, to your smile,
My gentlest thoughts,
The ones I tell you, and also those
That remain unspoken
And too deep to say.

I dedicate to your tears, to your smile,
To your whole soul, my soul,
With its tears and its smiles
And its kiss.

You see, dawn whitens the ground, the color of dregs;
Bonds of shadow seem to slip away
And drift off, with melancholy;
The water of the ponds brightens and sifts its sound,
The grass radiates and the corollas unfold,
And the golden woods free themselves from all night.

Oh! say, to be able, one day,
To enter thus into the full light;
Oh! say, to be able, one day,
With victorious cries and lofty prayers,
With no more veil upon us,
With no more remorse within us,
Oh! say, to be able one day
To enter together into lucid love!…

Emile Verhaeren

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