Safo: novo poema 2600 anos depois

"[You for] the fragrant-blossomed Muses’ lovely gifts
[be zealous,] girls, [and the] clear melodious lyre:

[but my once tender] body old age now
[has seized;] my hair’s turned [white] instead of dark;

my heart’s grown heavy, my knees will not support me,
that once on a time were fleet for the dance as fawns.

This state I oft bemoan; but what’s to do?
Not to grow old, being human, there’s no way.

Tithonus once, the tale was, rose-armed Dawn,
love-smitten, carried off to the world’s end,

handsome and young then, yet in time grey age
o’ertook him, husband of immortal wife."

Safo

(poema restaurado e traduzido por Martin West)

Da poetisa, musa da antiguidade clássica e não só, como ainda se pode ver e ler, conhecem-se três poemas completos, vários aforismos e centenas de fragmentos. Agora, 2600 anos depois, foi encontrado um novo poema sobre a passagem do tempo, o envelhecimento do ser humano, o amor, ...

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The Times Literary Supplement:
http://poetry.about.com/gi/dynamic/offsite.htm?site=http://www.the%2Dtls.co.uk/this%5Fweek/story.aspx%3Fstory%5Fid=2111206

The Guardian:
http://books.guardian.co.uk/news/articles/0%2C6109%2C1513491%2C00.html