Elend

πολλὰ γάρ͵ εὖτε πτόλις δαμασθῇ͵ ἐή͵ δυστυχῆ τε πράσσει. ἄλλος δ ́ ἄλλον ἄγει͵ φονεύ- ει͵ τὰ δὲ πυρφορεῖ· καπνῷ χραίνεται πόλισμ ́ ἅπαν· μαινόμενος δ΄ ἐπιπνεῖ λαοδάμας μιαίνων εὐσέβειαν Ἄρης....

And I became the great deceiver To see what fair Eyes still cannot see: A tear in every sea, A fragment of light exhausted. Vision is all that matters to traveler a wayward Through centuries of...

Exhausted Dying into a dance, The wait will be over soon. The vision is gone, what’s left to see? A poison for the eye, a cure for the heart And the end of all faith. « Qu’est pour nous, mon cœur,...

Amidst the streams of the river The flow Was achanging And autumn rain unfolded its charm With the thorns of absence So sweet to your skin In the dusty veils of morning You had forgiven all bearing...

I looked into the eyes of the Basilisk. Beside the shores Of silver streaming sadness to be, She came to me disguised as Melpomene. Like asphodels winding through the chasms of Heaven, We were passing...

Le corps n’en finissent pas de brûler Onde de sang, vent ardent. I rolled like the sand the water unfurls. We are the everdead, the spark in the air. Dust and water, The blood of the harvest And...

The night shade A dark colonnade The cypress, then the shore... I sought comfort in the foam The wind heals the pain A pale November rises You know how the days gone by Even night sought shelter Under...

Hollowed by the pain, I feel the rage coming in Suffocating waves. As a wreck in the streams of my bloodied kin's blood, I dreamt of timessaturnine when the festring might Enflamed our hearts to the...

Dying into a dance, Dismal the tide of woes, Your eyes still can’t see A wave in the foaming streams Turned loose our prayings son. The crawling snakes of massacre mesmerize the worn-out. Blood and...

The joys of sleepless nights are awaiting you. The son of Morn may cry and never reach you. I have seen the veil, I have seen the grave, The rain it came And silence covers all. The drop like spears,...