Faithful heart
Josep Carner
To a grief that goes beyond sense
only the Impossible turns a gentle face.
The pure palace became a heap of stones,
the walls air, the panels
ash.
Marauder in that place of dispossession,
groping, stumbling, slowly
straightening up,
discouragement roams the night,
plundering excitement
and memory.
I know from where the inexhaustible fire
will come to animate the
lifeless dust.
I see the final monument in ruins.
And I shall climb, with no resting-stages,
up to the highroad of runaway
dawn
by what’s left of the stair that leads nowhere.
Poesia. Barcelona: Quaderns crema, 1992 [1ª publicació: Paliers, 1950].
Translated by Pearse Hutchinson
Pearse Hutchinson
Fragments
A hora foscant - Josep Carner
Angoixa de l’alta nit - Josep Carner
Assaig de càntic en el temple - Salvador Espriu
Cor fidel - Josep Carner
Joc - Pere Quart
Mans - Àlex Susanna
Nadal - Joan Salvat-Papasseit
Oda a Barcelona - Jacint Verdaguer
Ostende, 31 desembre 1949 - Josep Carner
Per a tots nosaltres - Miquel Martí i Pol
Retorn a Catalunya - Josep Carner
Sol - Josep Palau i Fabre
Temps nou - Miquel Martí i Pol
Vacances pagades - Pere Quart
Vistes al mar - Joan Maragall
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