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WITH YOUR PORTRAIT

I don't know if my eyes or my hands
Sparked life in your portrait;
Human clouds, superhuman rays,
All your I of innate emperor

Rises to my eyes, in my hands.
For that, all in flames, I unbind
Hair and soul for your portrait,
And I open in bloom!... Then, sovereign,

Of shadow and light, your grave eyes
Say great things that I know and you know…
And I let you die… In my hands remains

A great stain, livid and somber…
And in my melancholy you are born again
Formed by cold and remote stars!

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Delmira Agustini
Translation by Alejandro Cáceres


«Los cálices vacíos, pórtico de Rubén Darío» (1913)

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Selected Poetry of Delmira Agustini: Poetics of Eros. Contributors: Alejandro Cáceres - editor, Willis Barnstone - unknown. Publisher: Southern Illinois University Press. Place of Publication: Carbondale, IL. Publication Year: 2003