Maud Gonne MacBride (1866 – 1953)*
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Μία από τις "μούσες" του Ουίλιαμ Μπάτλερ Γέιτς .
Ο ποιητής , απελπισμένος από την αδυναμία του
να προσφέρει στην ερωμένη του όσα, κατά τη γνώμη του,
εκείνη θα ήθελε , της αφιέρωσε το παρακάτω ποίημα:
Cloths of Heaven
"Had I the heavens' embroidered cloths,
Enwrought with golden and silver light,
The blue and the dim and the dark cloths
Of night and light and the half light,
I would spread the cloths under your feet:
But I, being poor, have only my dreams;
I have spread my dreams under your feet;
Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.
William Butler YeatsΗ φορεσιά του ουρανού
«Αν είχα τ’ ουρανού την πλουμιστή τη φορεσιά
την υφασμένη από χρυσό κι απ’ ασημένιο φως
Τη γαλανή, τη μελιχρή, τη μαυροκεντημένη φορεσιά
Από νύχτα κι από μέρα κι από αποσπερίσιο φως
Τη φορεσιά μου θα άπλωνα κάτω από τα πόδια σου
Μα εγώ που είμαι φτωχός έχω μόνο τα όνειρά μου
Τα όνειρά μου άπλωσα κάτω από τα πόδια σου.
Πάτα ελαφρά γιατί πατάς πάνω στα όνειρά μου».
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William Butler Yeats and Maud Gonne MacBride
Few men have waited so long to have their love requited as William Butler Yeats. When the poet first met the Irish Nationalist revolutionary Maud Gonne in 1889, he was enthralled by her beauty and fire. As well as immortalising her in verse, comparing her to Helen of Troy, he proposed to her four times between 1891 and 1901. She turned him down each time, choosing instead to marry a fellow Nationalist, Major John MacBride, in 1903. The marriage was a wreck, and the pair divorced amid accusations of his domestic violence. Gonne and Yeats maintained their friendship, and in 1908 she allowed him to consummate their relationship just once. Both appeared to regret their night together, although Yeats did propose to her once more, in 1916. When she refused, he proposed to her 21-year-old daughter, Iseult, who also rejected him. Finally, he wed the spiritualist Georgie Hyde-Lees, with whom he found a certain contentment. Maude Gonne died alone. But the love she inspired is preserved in Yeats's great poems of romantic yearning.
Few men have waited so long to have their love requited as William Butler Yeats. When the poet first met the Irish Nationalist revolutionary Maud Gonne in 1889, he was enthralled by her beauty and fire. As well as immortalising her in verse, comparing her to Helen of Troy, he proposed to her four times between 1891 and 1901. She turned him down each time, choosing instead to marry a fellow Nationalist, Major John MacBride, in 1903. The marriage was a wreck, and the pair divorced amid accusations of his domestic violence. Gonne and Yeats maintained their friendship, and in 1908 she allowed him to consummate their relationship just once. Both appeared to regret their night together, although Yeats did propose to her once more, in 1916. When she refused, he proposed to her 21-year-old daughter, Iseult, who also rejected him. Finally, he wed the spiritualist Georgie Hyde-Lees, with whom he found a certain contentment. Maude Gonne died alone. But the love she inspired is preserved in Yeats's great poems of romantic yearning.
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