To Mary
Eerste publicatie: Juli 1835 (Southern Literary Messenger)
Annotatie: In maart 1842 kreeg het de titel ‘To One Departed’ en op 26 april 1845 ‘To F-’(To Frances).
Vertalingen en bewerkingen:
1941: AAN…. (Letterkundig maandblad Criterium, 2e jaargang, nr. 5)
TO MARY
BELOVED! amid the earnest woes
That crowd around my earthly path —
(Drear path, alas! where grows
Not even one lonely rose) —
My soul at least a solace hath
In dreams of thee, and therein knows
An Eden of bland repose.
And thus thy memory is to me
Like some enchanted far-off isle
In some tumultuous sea —
Some ocean throbbing far and free
With storms — but where meanwhile
Serenest skies continually
Just o’re that one bright island smile.
