POEME ROMÂNESTI ÎN LIMBI STRĂINE

Tudor ARGHEZI

You’d Hardly Left

 

You’d hardly left. I had begged you to go away.

I watched you walk along the slow-winding pathway

Until you vanished, at its bottom, into the fields of clover.

Not even one farewell glance had your eyes cast over !

 

I would have called you back after you’d left,

Would you have heard a shadow’s sign far and bereft ?

 

I wanted you to go away, I also wanted you to stay.

You lent your ear to the former wish without delay.

My silent thought could stop you not.

Why did you leave ? Should I have called ?

 

(English version: Gabriela PACHIA)