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ALBERTO CAEIRO
THE COMPLETE POEMS I POESIA C O M P L E T O
Fernanda Pessoa
Translated and edited by Michael Lee Rattigan
CONTENTS
The Keeper of Flocks
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I never looked after flocks 21
My gaze is as clear as a sunflower's 27
As evening falls, seated at my window 29
The storm broke this afternoon 31
There is enough metaphysics in not thinking about anything 35
To think about God is to disobey God 41
From my village I can see as much of the earth as is seen from... 43
One midday towards the end of spring 45
I am a keeper of flocks 57
"Hello, keeper of flocks 59
That lady owns a piano 61
That lady owns a piano (variant) 63
Virgil's shepherds played panpipes and otherthings 65
Gently, gently, very gently 67
I'm not interested in rhyme. Rarely 69
I rhyme when it suits (variant) 71
The following four songs 73
Would that my life were an ox-cart 75
How Nature is all mixed up on my plate! (To Salad) 77
Would I were the dust on the path 79
When the moonlight leans on the grass 81
The Tagus is more beautiful than the river that runs through my... 83
If I were able to carve up the whole earth 85
Like someone who opens their door on a Summer's day 87
My gaze is blue like the sky 89
What we see of things are the things themselves 91
The soap bubbles that this child 93
Sometimes, on days of exact and perfect light 95
Only Nature is divine and it isn't divine 97
XXVIII Li hoje quase duas paginas 98
XXIX Nem sempre sou igual no que digo e escrevo 100
XXX Se quiserem que eu tenha um misticismo, esta bem, tenho-o 102
XXXI Se as vezes digo que as flores sorriem 104
XXXII Ontem atarde um homem dascidades 106
XXXIII Pobres das flores nos canteiros dosjardins regulares no
XXXIV Achotao natural que nao se pense 112
XXXV 0 luaratravesdos altos ramos 114
XXXVI E ha poetas que sao artistas 116
XXXVII Como um grande borrao de fogo sujo 118
XXXVIII Benditosejao mesmo sol deoutras terras 120
XXXIX 0 misterio das cousas, onde esta ele? 122
XL Passa uma borboleta pordiante de mim 124
XLI Noentardecerdosdiasde Verao, as vezes 126
XLII Passou adiligencia pelaestrada, efoi-se 128
XLI 11 Antes 0 voo da ave, que passa e nao deixa rasto 130
XLIV Acordo de noite subitamente 132
XLV Um renque de arvores la longe, la para a encosta 134
XLVI Deste modo ou daquele modo 136
XLVII Num dia excessivamente ni'tido 140
XLVIII Da maisaltajaneladaminhacasa 142
XLIX Meto-me paradentro, efechoa janela 144
0 Pastor Amoroso %
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Quandoeu naote tinha 148
Vai alta no ceu a lua da primavera 150
Agora que sinto amor 152
Todos os dias agora acordo com alegria e pena 154
0 amor e uma companhia 156
Passei toda a noite, sem saber dormir, vendo sem espac.o a figura... 15
Talvez quern ve bem nao sirva para sentir 160
0 pastor amoroso perdeu 0 cajado 162
XXVIII Today I read almost two pages 99
XXIX I'm not always equal to what I say or write 101
XXX If they wish me to possess mysticism, that's fine, I possess it 103
XXXI If I sometimes say that flowers smile 105
XXXII Yesterday afternoon a man from the city 107
XXXIII Those poor potted plants in tidy gardens 111
XXXIV Not thinking seems so natural to me 113
XXXV The moonlight through high branches 115
XXXVI And there are poets who are also artists 117
XXXVII Like a huge smudge of filthy fire 119
XXXVIII Blessed be this same sun on other lands 121
XXXIX The mystery of things, where is it? 123
XL A butterfly passes before me 125
XLI Sometimes, as evening falls on Summer days 127
XLII A coach came and went along the road 129
XLI 11 Rathera bird's flight, which passes by without leaving a trace 131
XLIV I awake suddenly at night 133
XLV A ring of trees far off, thereon the hillside 135
XLVI One way oranother 137
XLVII On an amazingly clear day 141
XLVIII From the highest window of my house 143
XLIX I go inside and close my window 145
The Shepherd in Love
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Before I knew you 149
A spring moon has stepped up the sky 151
Now I feel love 153
Every day now I wake up feeling joy and sorrow 155
To Love is to be in company 157
I spent the whole night without sleeping, with herfigure... 159
Perhaps the sharp-sighted aren't so good where feelings are... 161
The shepherd in love lost his staff 163