Lauro de Bosis (1901-1931): from "Icaro", The Third Act

            MINOS

Daughter!


            PHAEDRA

... if the daughter of the Master of the Sea has any right to
love, father, my blood and his are a single flame of love: dost
thou wish death for Phaedra also?  He is my betrothed.


            MINOS

Daughter, what dost thou say?  Thou, to love a man without
a crown?


            ICARUS

Lord of the Seas, thy crown reigns over the waters but my 

royal laurels have risen to the sky!

            PHAEDRA

The love of Phaedra is equal to a crown.


            DAEDALUS

King of the Islands, the sons of free Athens are all equal,
both citizens and kings.  With us Genius is the only crown.


            THE LEADER

King Minos, yield: in him all acknowledge a king.  Re-
member, the race of poets is sacred and song is a wondrous
realm.





Lauro de Bosis, "Icaro"

Silver Olympic Medal
Arts, Dramatic Works
Amsterdam 1928

Oxford University Press
London:Humphrey Milford 1933
Translation Ruth Draper
Icaro

Art Competitions at The Olympic Games

W. S. Merwin (1927- ) : "By the Avenue"

Through the trees and across the river

with its surface the color of steel

on a rainy morning late in spring

the splintered skyline of the city

glitters in a silence we all know

but cannot touch or reach for with words

and I am the only one who can

remember now over there among

the young leaves brighter than the daylight

another light through the tall windows 

a sunbeam sloping like a staircase 

and from beyond it my father's voice

telling about a mote in an eye

that was like a mote in a sunbeam




From "The Shadow Of Sirius"
Copper Canyon Press 2009
The Shadow of Sirius

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