Inextinguibles (Immutable)

Delmira AgustiniDelmira Agustini

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Spanish ¡Oh, tú que duermes tan hondo que no despiertas!
Milagrosas de vivas, milagrosas de muertas,
Y por muertas y vivas eternamente abiertas,Alguna noche en duelo yo encuentro tus pupilas  Bajo un trapo de sombra o una blonda de luna.
Bebo en ellas la Calma como en una laguna.
Por hondas, por calladas, por buenas, por tranquilas  Un lecho o una tumba parece cada una.              English
   O you who sleep so deep you cannot wake!
Every night in mourning I come upon your pupils,
Miraculous in life, miraculous in death,And in life and death eternally open.Beneath a remnant of shade or silk lace of moon,
I drink their calm as I would a lagoon.
For depth, for silence, for goodness, for peacefulness.     Each one seeming a bed or a tomb.
Delmira Agustini
About the poet

Delmira Agustini

1886-1914/UruguayDelmira Agustini was born in Montevideo, Uruguay, in 1886. At a young age she began to compose and publish poems in literary journals such as "La Alborada," where she wrote a society column under the modernista pen name "Joujou." Soon she att…

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