a gift::un regalo

 A gift

I Woke:-

Night, lingering, poured upon the world

Of drowsy hill and wood and lake

Her moon-song,

And the breeze accompanied with hushed fingers

On the birches.

Gently the dawn held out to me

A golden handful of bird's-notes.

Leonora Speyer (1872-1956)

Fidler's Farewell

Knopf, USA (1926)

 Un regalo

Desperté: -

La noche, persistente, derramaba sobre el mundo

De colina somnolienta y madera y lago

Su canción de luna,

Y la brisa acompañaba con dedos silenciosos

Sobre los abedules.

Suavemente el amanecer me tendió

Un puñado dorado de notas de aves.

Leonora Speyer (1872-1956)

Fiddler's Farewell

Knopf, EE.UU. (1926)

Leonora Speyer was born in Washington D.C. in 1872. She won the Pulitzer Prize in 1927 for her collection Fiddler’s Farewell (Knopf, 1926). Speyer died in 1956.