WeRead
Powered by ReaderPub
A sequence of lyrical-dramatic poems and dialogues that dwell on longing, love, memory, and the tension between inward desire and everyday duty. Intimate scenes set in gardens, rooms, and along roads use images of flowers, birds, lamps, and travel to evoke yearning, renunciation, and the passage of time. Speakers vary from attendants and solitary poets to lovers, shifting between tenderness, regret, and contemplative solitude. Recurring motifs of gardens and cages contrast freedom and constraint, while small domestic rituals and gestures disclose unspoken affection, loss, and the persistent ache of separation.
O, in steen gehouwen Schoonheid, te midden van het gedrang en rumoer der waereld staat gij stom en stil, alleen en ongenaakbaar.
De groote Tijd zit bekoord aan uw voeten en preevelt: „Spreek, spreek tot mij, geliefde, spreek, mijn bruid!”
Maar uw spraak is in steen verslooten, Onbeweegbare Schoonheid!