Elizabeth Barrett Browning. Sonnets from the Portuguese.

XLIV

Beloved, thou hast brought me many flowers
Plucked in the garden, all the summer through
And winter, and it seemed as if they grew
In this close room, nor missed the sun and showers,
So, in the like name of that love of ours,
Take back these thoughts which here unfolded too,
And which on warm and cold days I withdrew
From my heart’s ground. Indeed, those beds and bowers
Be overgrown with bitter weeds and rue,
And wait thy weeding; yet here’s eglantine,
Here’s ivy!— take them, as I used to do
Thy flowers, and keep them where they shall not pine.
Instruct thine eyes to keep their colours true,
And tell thy soul, their roots are left in mine.

Traducció de Dolors Udina

Sonets del portuguès.

Tot sovint, amor, m’ha regalat flors
collides del teu jardí, a l’estiu
i a l’hivern, i semblava que creixien
en aquesta cambra, sense sol ni aigua.
Així, en nom del nostre amor, agafa
aquests pensaments que també aquí creixien
i que en dies freds i càlids jo trec
del fons del meu cor. I si en els parterres
hi ha males herbes i ruda que esperen
que les arrenquis, també hi ha englantines
i heures! — pren-les com solia fer jo
i guarda-les per tal que no es marceixin.
Fes que els teus ulls conservin els colors
i recorda que en tinc l’arrel a l’ànima.

Biël Barnhills · Elizabeth Barrett Browning. 44.