Showing posts with label Spring. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Spring. Show all posts

Sunday, April 14, 2013

Vienna: Signs of spring


“Life in the World is but a big dream;
I will not spoil it by any labour or care.”
So saying, I was drunk all the day,
Lying helpless at the porch in front of my door.
When I woke up, I blinked at the garden-lawn;
A lonely bird was singing amid the flowers.
I asked myself, had the day been wet or fine?
The Spring wind was telling the mango-bird.
Moved by its song I soon began to sigh,
And as wine was there I filled my own cup.
Wildly singing I waited for the moon to rise;
When my song was over, all my senses had gone.

Li Po, Waking from Drunkenness on a Spring Day
 (trans. Arthur Waley, 1919)





















Sunday, April 15, 2012

Vienna: The first of spring :)

"There's a cloud
A blue sky darkening
That veils the light of the sun
And foretells the rain
But there's a bird
There are birds
And some are singing

To greet every new day that may come
Like the first of spring

It is cold
It is cold
I've had the feeling
At the heart and in the core
The root of all things
But there's a bud, there's a bulb
It will be blooming

To greet every new day that may come
Like the first of spring..." 

"Tracy Chapman - Spring"