Potential Titles: The Seafarer

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May I for my own self song's truth reckon - "The Seafarer" transl. from 'the early Anglo-Saxon' by Ezra Pound

How I in harsh days hardship endured - "The Seafarer" transl. from 'the early Anglo-Saxon' by Ezra Pound

Chafing sighs hew my heart round - "The Seafarer" transl. from 'the early Anglo-Saxon' by Ezra Pound

Naught save the harsh sea and ice-cold wave - "The Seafarer" transl. from 'the early Anglo-Saxon' by Ezra Pound

Over the whale's acre, would wander wide - "The Seafarer" transl. from 'the early Anglo-Saxon' by Ezra Pound

This dead life on loan and on land - "The Seafarer" transl. from 'the early Anglo-Saxon' by Ezra Pound

Beats out the breath from doom-gripped body - "The Seafarer" transl. from 'the early Anglo-Saxon' by Ezra Pound

That he will work ere he pass onward - "The Seafarer" transl. from 'the early Anglo-Saxon' by Ezra Pound

And all arrogance of earthen riches - "The Seafarer" transl. from 'the early Anglo-Saxon' by Ezra Pound

And though he strew the grave with gold - "The Seafarer" transl. from 'the early Anglo-Saxon' by Ezra Pound


This translation can be found in Cathay which is otherwise mostly Pound's translations of Li Bai (credited as Rihaku). I have no idea why an Anglo-Saxon poem is in that mix, but... I suppose I don't have to understand it.


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