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Selected Poetry of Delmira Agustini: Poetics of Eros by Delmira Agustini
Spanish

El ancla de oro canta…la vela azul asciende
Como el ala de un sueño abierta al nuevo día.
                              Partamos, musa mía!
Ante lo prora alegre un bello mar se extiende.

En el oriente claro como un cristal, esplende
El fanal sonrosado de Aurora. Fantasía
Estrena un raro traje lleno de pedrería
para vagar brillante por las olas.

                              Ya tiende
La vela azul a Eolo su oriflama de raso…
El momento supremo!…Yo me estremezco; acaso
Sueño lo que me aguarda en los mundos no vistos!…

Acaso un fresco ramo de laureles fragantes,
El toison reluciente, el cetro de diamantes,
El naufragio o la eterna corona de los Cristos?…


              English

The golden anchor beckons, the blue sail rises
Like the wing of a dream unfolding to a new day.
                              Let us depart, my muse!
Beyond an anxious prow, the sea stretches itself out.

In the crystal clear East, Aurora's
Blushed beacon shines. Fantasy
Is donning a rare garment of gems
To wander brilliantly over the waves.

                              The blue sail
Unfolds its private oriflamme to ******…
The supreme moment!…I tremble: do I know–
Oh God!–what awaits me in unseen worlds?

Perhaps a freshly picked bouquet of fragrant laurels,
The golden fleece, a diamond scepter,
A shipwreck, or the eternal crown of the Anointed Ones?…
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         Eva Luna, ---, Tehillah, Joe Bradley and SPT
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