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diff --git a/.gitattributes b/.gitattributes new file mode 100644 index 0000000..6833f05 --- /dev/null +++ b/.gitattributes @@ -0,0 +1,3 @@ +* text=auto +*.txt text +*.md text diff --git a/22907-8.txt b/22907-8.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..a380c26 --- /dev/null +++ b/22907-8.txt @@ -0,0 +1,706 @@ +The Project Gutenberg EBook of Elegia da Solidão, by Teixeira de Pascoais + +This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with +almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or +re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included +with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org + + +Title: Elegia da Solidão + +Author: Teixeira de Pascoais + +Release Date: October 7, 2007 [EBook #22907] + +Language: Portuguese + +Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 + +*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK ELEGIA DA SOLIDÃO *** + + + + +Produced by Vasco Salgado + + + + +TEIXEIRA DE PASCOAES + + ++Elegia da Solidão+ + + +1920. + +Tip. «Flor do Tamega» +Amarante. + + + + ++ELEGIA DA SOLIDÃO+ + +a Fernando Maristany + + +O incendio do sol-pôr exala um fumo rôxo +Que ás cousas vela a face... +A macerada flôr da solidão renasce; +O seu perfume é fria e branda magua, +Bruma que já foi agua... +Todo sombra e luar esvoaça o môcho; +Uma nuvem enorme, ao longe, no poente +Desvenda o coração que se deslumbra +E abraza intimamente... +O silencio a crescer, é onda que se espalha... +Sente-se vir o outomno; é já noitinha, orvalha... +Nos êrmos pinheiraes gemem as _noitibós_ +E vultos de mulher, sumidos na penumbra, +Passam cantando, além, com lagrimas na voz... + +Ó tristeza do mundo em tardes outomnaes! +Longinqua dôr beijando-nos o rôsto... +Crepusculo esfumado em intimo desgôsto, +Bôca da noite acêsa em frios ais... +Aparição soturna, vaga imagem +Do mêdo e do misterio... +Que solidão escura na paisagem! +Tem phantasmas e cruzes, +Tem ciprestes ao vento e moribundas luzes, +Como se fosse um grande cemiterio. + +Olho em volta de mim, cheio de mêdo... Tudo +É morta indiferença, espectro mudo! +É o Verbo original arrefecido +Em fragaredos brutos convertido; +Extinto _Fiat Lux_, cadaver que fluctua +No ceu nocturno e fundo... +As almas que partiram d'este mundo +Voltam na luz da lua. +São phantasmas em neve amortalhados, +Eternamente tristes e calados... +São sonhos esvaidos, nevoa fria, +Perfis de fumo e de melancolia... +Vagas formas de imagem ilusoria +Que a lua merencoria +Molda em penumbra e cêra +Na noite transparente de chimera. + +E todavia eu sinto +Um acordar de instinto, +Um palpitar de viva claridade +Em cada cousa obscura... +O aroma d'uma flôr quem sabe se é ternura? +A noite não será phantastica saudade? +A deusa que semeia estrelas no Infinito +E corôa de lagrimas divinas +A extatica tragedia das ruinas, +Toda em versos de marmore e granito? +Misteriosamente +Sobe da terra um sonho transcendente; +Emanação de mistica tristeza, +Como o fumo d'um lar +Que tem, junto do fogo, alminhas a rezar. + +Mas, ai, a Natureza, +Reservada e offendida, afasta-se de nós! +E na sua mudez arrefecida +Congela a minha voz... +Um silencio mortal separa-me de tudo! +E como a sombra tragica da vida, +Vou pelo mundo além; +Enorme espectro mudo, +Monstruosa presença de ninguem! +Vivo sósinho e triste, assujeitado +Ao meu phantasma errante e desgraçado, +Em ermos de abandono; +Ermos de Portugal, +Onde a alma do sol divaga com o outomno +N'um sempiterno idilio sepulcral. + +Sou nada, e quero ser! +Quero ser tudo, e eu! Quero viver +A vida misteriosa... +Interrogo o silencio e a noite rumorosa +De sombras e segredos... +Contemplo comovido os astros e os penedos, +E fico a ouvir as fontes n'um eterno +Queixume que ergue a voz durante o negro inverno! +Passo horas a aspirar o aroma d'uma flôr; +Sombra que eu vejo em pétalas de côr +Esparsas, ondeantes, +Nas virgens claridades madrugantes. +E a pura sensação que me domina, +É qual longinqua Apparição divina +Que me seduz e afaga... +E de estrela em estrela é alma que divaga... +Quantas vezes me sento á beira d'um abismo, +Sobre escarpados blócos; +E em mim perdido scismo... +E ouço apenas cair nos tenebrosos fundos, +As lagrimas de luz que vêm dos outros mundos +E a neve do silencio em negros flócos. + +Absorvo-me na noite e no misterio; +Erro, ao luar, em êrmo cemiterio, +Sob as azas geladas do _nordeste_; +Interrogo na vala a sombra do cipreste +Rumorosa d'um funebre desgosto, +Com gestos espectraes ás horas do sol-posto... +E n'um doido, febril deslumbramento, +Vejo-me sepultado em pensamento +E durmo, durmo, durmo a Eternidade... + +Subito, acordo e volto á claridade! +Sáio da fria cova; +Uma sombra infantil cái d'esta imagem nova +Que sobre mim baixou do sol a arder... + +Que alegria, meu Deus, tornar a ser! + +E sinto um novo amor por tudo quanto existe! +Reso de joelhos vendo a tarde triste, +Pintada a sangue, em longes de pinhaes... +Vendo imagens de estrela em charcos de agua, +O oiro caido ao chão das arvores outomnaes +E as nevoas, frias tunicas de magua, +Vestindo outeiros nus... +Vendo o fumo de rusticas lareiras, +Onde ha velhas fiando em negras preguiceiras +O livido lençol que as ha de amortalhar, +E rezam n'uma voz de sombra: _amen Jesus_... +E ficam-se a scismar... +Lá fóra, ouve-se uivar phantastica alcateia +E andam Bruxas a rir... +Rangem velhinhas portas, +Treme a luz da candeia, +A cinza sobe no ar, as brazas mortas +Começam a luzir... + +Eu amo tudo: os ramos comovidos +Em diáfano marmore esculpidos +E esse velhinho tronco, em flôr, que renasceu +Ao sentir a impressão azul que vem do ceu... +Com que ternura beijo a luz do dia, +Que em meus ouvidos de alma é lirica harmonia... +Tenho ocultas palavras transcendentes +Para as nuvens somnambulas, dormentes, +Para a sombra nupcial e mistica d'um lirio, +Para a afflição da inercia escrita n'um rochedo +E para a Dôr que faz gritar um arvoredo +Em noites de delirio. + +Mas este amor é grande soffrimento! +De que nos serve amar o que não ama? +Ser dolorosa chama, +Sobre campos de neve, errando, ao vento? +Andar a perseguir um Anjo fugitivo! + +Entre turbas de mortos não ser mais +Do que um espectro vivo? +Ser doido cataclismo! +Ser desprendida folha, +Entregue aos vendavaes, +A voar, a voar em negros vôos afflictos! +Olhar seu proprio sêr como quem olha +O fundo d'um abysmo! +E querendo esconder nas sombras o seu rôsto, +Para chorar tão intimo desgosto, +Ter de invocar a noite em altos gritos! + +Ó meu vulto perdido em trevas misteriosas! +Cégo, a bater de encontro ás brutas cousas, +Coberto de feridas, a sangrar... +Sou como a sombra em lagrimas do mar; +Nuvem desfeita em chuva; +Um enorme phantasma de viuva +A rezar e a chorar na solidão sem fim! +Noite de horror sempre abraçada a mim! +Ó noite, onde ha soluços e estertores +E procissões infindas de clamores... +Multidões de phantasticas mulheres, +A cantar, a cantar sinistros _miséréres_... +Sombras que o vento leva... +Doidos perfis de fogo a rir na treva +Que nos desvenda as lividas entranhas, +Com nuvens e contornos de montanhas, +Com arvores agitadas de anciedades, +Com desgrenhadas, intimas saudades +E tragicos desejos que arrefecem, +Soes que n'um mar de sangue desfalecem! + +Sou a noite em que o mundo se consome: +As cousas mais humildes e sem nome, +As estrelas, os Deuses, tudo quanto +Se amortalha na sombra do meu canto +Que chora a sua eterna imperfeição! +Sou tempestade, noite, solidão, +O frio esquecimento, +A sombra do luar bailando com o vento, +Um gemido de nevoa, uma ternura, um ai, +Phantasma d'uma lagrima que cáe. + +Ó triste solidão que me rodeia! +Ó minha amada e pequenina aldeia! +Ó aves a cantar para ninguem! +Flôres que o inverno emurchece, +Mãos erguidas na tarde que arrefece, +Implorando o silencio, a noite, as cousas mortas +E os ventos de terror batendo ás portas, +Sem destino, a correr por esse mundo além! +Almas crucificadas de abandono +Entregues a uma eterna viuvez, +Transparentes de fina palidez, +Rezando ao Deus da Morte as orações do outomno... +E tu, meu coração amante que palpitas +Nas trevas infinitas! +E ardes n'uma fogueira desvairada +E doido te consomes para nada! +Caio por terra morto de cançasso, +A propria terra foge ao meu abraço! +Foge de mim tambem meu proprio sêr, +Vulto de cinza e poeira... +Homens, nem mesmo a dôr é verdadeira! +Sou ilusoria imagem a soffrer +A tragica mentira que a formou! +E pelo mundo vou +Na êrma escuridão, chorando afflicto, +Como creança perdida no Infinito, +Entre soturnos Deuses fabulosos +E mundos de terror vertiginosos... + +O alto sete-estrelo! +Sol velhinho com brancas no cabelo! +Silencio emudecendo a musica dos ninhos! +Loucura que ergue o mar em ondas e soluços +E, exausto, sobre a praia, o faz cair de bruços! +Ó pinheiraes sósinhos! +Ó tragedias de fraga e terra! Ó êrmos montes! +Calvarios a sangrar! + +Corações de mulher desfeitos em luar! +Martirisadas fontes! +Medonhos arvoredos! +Chimericos penedos! +Lobos uivando a magua que os consome +Á lua que prateia a serra fragarosa... +Magros vultos de pêlo arripiado +Com um sinistro olhar incendiado; +Ferozes esqueletos que têm fome... +Aparições da Plebe tenebrosa; +Odios vivos, relampagos de dôr; +Archotes acendidos, +Na noite da desgraça transmitidos, +De mão em mão, com tragico furor! + +Lobos famintos, doidos e profetas! +Leões cheios de sombra e de melancolia! +Feras que devoraes por simpatia, +Bramindo, como cantam os poetas! +Meu sonho é comungar a Natureza; +Paisagens de alegria e de tristeza, +Desertos ao luar, visões de outrora, +Nuvens relampejando... +O silencio nocturno, a musica da aurora +Em notas de oiro voando... +Quero sentir o amor, o soffrimento +Que apaga a luz do sol e faz gritar o vento +E sufoca de lagrimas as fontes +Na solidão dos montes... +Quero sentir o vago, o indefinido +D'um astro a palpitar nas ondas reflectido. +Quero ser a ilusão, a nuvem, a chimera, +A divina alegria, a virgem Primavera +Que nos desenha, além, n'um fundo escuro e frio, +Doirada porta em flor aberta sobre o estio... +Quero brilhar na luz e crepitar +No fogo, e me perder em fumo pelo ar! +Quero tecer os caules verdejantes +E ser em rosa murcha orvalhos scintilantes. +Quero abranger o mundo +E o claro ceu profundo; +E ter nos olhos meus +As estrelas e as lagrimas de Deus, +E em meus braços o gesto de carinho +Que tem um ramo em flôr, +Quando ampara e protege com amor +Uma avesinha dentro do seu ninho... + + ++(Da terceira Fala do «Jesus e Pan»)+ + + ++FIM.+ + + + + +300 RÉIS + + + + + +End of Project Gutenberg's Elegia da Solidão, by Teixeira de Pascoais + +*** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK ELEGIA DA SOLIDÃO *** + +***** This file should be named 22907-8.txt or 22907-8.zip ***** +This and all associated files of various formats will be found in: + https://www.gutenberg.org/2/2/9/0/22907/ + +Produced by Vasco Salgado + +Updated editions will replace the previous one--the old editions +will be renamed. + +Creating the works from public domain print editions means that no +one owns a United States copyright in these works, so the Foundation +(and you!) can copy and distribute it in the United States without +permission and without paying copyright royalties. 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