Seafarer poem translated burton raffel biography

The Seafarer @ CE Translated by Burton Raffel, from Anglo-Saxon “Whenever we are balanced on the limits of human condition, that’s where life begins.” —Philippe Petit This tale is true, and mine.

It tells How the sea took me, swept me back And forth in sorrow and fear and pain, Showed me suffering in a hundred ships, In a thousand ports, and in me. It tells Of smashing surf when I sweated in the cold Of an anxious watch, perched in the bow As it dashed under cliffs.

My feet were cast In icy bands, bound with frost, With frozen chains, and hardship groaned Around my heart.

Seafarer poem translated burton raffel biography

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Hunger tore At my sea-weary soul. No man sheltered On the quiet fairness of earth can feel How wretched I was, drifting through winter On an ice-cold sea, whirled in sorrow, Alone in a world blown clear of love, Hung with icicles.

The hailstorms flew. The only sound was the roaring sea, The freezing waves. The song of the swan Might serve for pleasure, the cry of the sea-fowl, The death-noise