Traz outro amigo também

Amigo
Maior que o pensamento
Por essa estrada amigo vem
Não percas tempo que o vento
É meu amigo também

Em terras
Em todas as fronteiras
Seja benvindo quem vier por bem
Se alguém houver que não queira
Trá-lo contigo também

Aqueles
Aqueles que ficaram
(Em toda a parte todo o mundo tem)
Em sonhos me visitaram
Traz outro amigo também

José Afonso

Mudam-se os tempos

Mudam-se os tempos, mudam-se as vontades,
Muda-se o ser, muda-se a confiança;
Todo o mundo é composto de mudança,
Tomando sempre novas qualidades.

Continuamente vemos novidades,
Diferentes em tudo da esperança;
Do mal ficam as mágoas na lembrança,
E do bem, se algum houve, as saudades.

O tempo cobre o chão de verde manto,
Que já coberto foi de neve fria,
E em mim converte em choro o doce canto.

E, afora este mudar-se cada dia,
Outra mudança faz de mor espanto:
Que não se muda já como soía.

Luís Vaz de Camões

Grabinschrift General Wallensteins

Hier liegt das große Haupt, so jetzt wird ausgelacht.

Viel wissen mehr von mir als ich jemals gedacht.

Doch weiß ich, daß ein Stein nicht leicht ein Stern kann werden,

Ein Stein, wie hoch es steigt, fällt endlich zu der Erden.

Christian Hofmann von Hofmannswaldau

If

If you can keep your head when all about you
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you;
If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,
But make allowance for their doubting too;
If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,
Or, being lied about, don't deal in lies,
Or, being hated, don't give way to hating,
And yet don't look too good, nor talk too wise;

If you can dream - and not make dreams your master;
If you can think - and not make thoughts your aim;
If you can meet with triumph and disaster
And treat those two imposters just the same;
If you can bear to hear the truth you've spoken
Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools,
Or watch the things you gave your life to broken,
And stoop and build 'em up with wornout tools;

If you can make one heap of all your winnings
And risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss,
And lose, and start again at your beginnings
And never breath a word about your loss;
If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew
To serve your turn long after they are gone,
And so hold on when there is nothing in you
Except the Will which says to them: "Hold on";

If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,
Or walk with kings - nor lose the common touch;
If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you;
If all men count with you, but none too much;
If you can fill the unforgiving minute
With sixty seconds' worth of distance run -
Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it,
And - which is more - you'll be a Man my son!

Rudyard Kipling

Homenagem ao povo do Chile

Foram não sei quantos mil
operários trabalhadores
mulheres ardinas pedreiros
jovens poetas cantores
camponeses e mineiros
foram não sei quantos mil
que tombaram pelo Chile
morrendo de corpo inteiro.

Nas suas almas abertas
traziam o sol da esperança
e nas duas mãos desertas
uma pátria ainda criança.

Gritavam Neruda Allende
davam vivas ao Partido
que é a chama que se acende
no Povo jamais vencido
– o Povo nunca se rende
mesmo quando morre unido.

Foram não sei quantos mil
operários trabalhadores
mulheres ardinas pedreiros
jovens poetas cantores
camponeses e mineiros
foram não sei quantos mil
que tombaram pelo Chile
morrendo de corpo inteiro.

Alguns traziam no rosto
um ricto de fogo e dor
fogo vivo fogo posto
pelas mãos do opressor.
Outros traziam os olhos
rasos de silêncio e água
maré-viva de quem passa
uma vida à beira-mágoa.

Foram não sei quantos mil
operários trabalhadores
mulheres ardinas pedreiros
jovens poetas cantores
camponeses e mineiros
foram não sei quantos mil
que tombaram pelo Chile
morrendo de corpo inteiro.

Mas não termina em si próprio
quem morre de pé. Vencido
é aquele que tentar
separar o povo unido.
Por isso os que ontem caíram
levantam de novo a voz.
Mortos são os que traíram
e vivos ficamos nós.

Foram não sei quantos mil
operários trabalhadores
mulheres ardinas pedreiros
jovens poetas cantores
camponeses e mineiros
foram não sei quantos mil
que nasceram para o Chile
morrendo de corpo inteiro.

José Carlos Ary dos Santos

Autopsicografia

O poeta é um fingidor.
Finge tão completamente
Que chega a fingir que é dor
A dor que deveras sente.

E os que lêem o que escreve,
Na dor lida sentem bem,
Não as duas que ele teve,
Mas só a que eles não têm.

E assim nas calhas de roda
Gira, a entreter a razão,
Esse comboio de corda
Que se chama coração.

Fernando Pessoa

Ozymandias

I met a traveler from an antique land
Who said: Two vast and trunkless legs of stone
Stand in the desert. Near them, on the sand,
Half sunk, a shattered visage lies, whose frown,
And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command,
Tell that its sculptor well those passions read,
Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things,
The hand that mocked them, and the heart that fed,
And on the pedestal these words appear:
“My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings:
Look upon my works, ye Mighty, and despair!”
Nothing beside remains. Round the decay
Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare

The lone and level sands stretch far away.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

The road not taken

Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth;

Then took the other, as just as fair,
And having perhaps the better claim,
Because it was grassy and wanted wear;
Though as for that the passing there
Had worn them really about the same,

And both that morning equally lay
In leaves no step had trodden black.
Oh, I kept the first for another day!
Yet knowing how way leads on to way,
I doubted if I should ever come back.

I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.

Robert Frost

Belsazar

Die Mitternacht zog näher schon;
In stummer Ruh lag Babylon.

Nur oben in des Königs Schloß,
Da flackerts, da lärmt des Königs Troß.

Dort oben in dem Königssaal
Belsazar hielt sein Königsmahl.

Die Knechte saßen in schimmernden Reihn,
Und leerten die Becher mit funkelndem Wein.

Es klirrten die Becher, es jauchzten die Knecht;
So klang es dem störrigen Könige recht.

Des Königs Wangen leuchten Glut;
Im Wein erwuchs im kecker Mut,

Und blindlings reißt der Mut ihn fort;
Und er lästert die Gottheit mit sündigem Wort.

Und er brüstet sich frech, und lästert wild;
Der Knechtenschar ihm Beifall brüllt.

Der König rief mit stolzem Blick;
Der Diener eilt und kehrt zurück.

Er trug viel gülden Gerät auf dem Haupt;
Das war aus dem Tempel Jehovas geraubt.

Und der König ergriff mit frevler Hand
Einen heiligen Becher, gefüllt bis am Rand.

Und er leert ihn hastig bis auf den Grund,
und rufet laut mit schäumendem Mund:

Jehovah! dir künd ich auf ewig Hohn -
Ich bin der König von Babylon!

Doch kaum das grause Wort verklang,
Dem König wards heimlich im Busen bang.

Das gellende Lachen verstummte zumal;
Es wurde leichenstill im Saal.

Und sieh! und sieh! an weißer Wand
Da kams hervor wie Menschenhand;

Und schrieb, und schrieb an weißer Wand
Buchstaben von Feuer, und schrieb und schwand.

Der König stieren Blicks da saß,
Mit schlotternden Knien und totenblaß.

Die Knechtenschar saß kalt durchgraut,
Und saß gar still, gab keinen Laut.

Die Magier kamen, doch keiner verstand
Zu deuten die Flammenschrift an der Wand.

Belsazar ward aber in selbiger Nacht
Von seinen Knechten umgebracht.

Heinrich Heine

Belshazar

Well, the bible tells us about a man
Who ruled Babylon and all its land.
Around the city, he built a wall
And declared that Babylon would never fall.

He had concubines and wives,
He called his Babylon "Paradise."
On his throne he drank and ate,
but for Belshazar it was gettin' late.

For he was weighed in the balance and found wanting,
His kingdom was divided, couldn't stand.
He was weighed in the balance and found wanting,
His houses were built upon the sand.

Well, the people feasted and drank their wine
And praised the false gods of his time.
All holy things they scorned and mocked,
But suddenly all their mocking stopped.

For on the wall, there appeared a hand,
Nothin' else, there was no man.
In blood the hand began to write,
And Belshazar couldn't hide his fright.

For he was weighed in the balance and found wanting,
His kingdom was divided, couldn't stand.
He was weighed in the balance and found wanting,
His houses were built upon the sand.

Well, no one around could understand
What was written by the mystic hand.
Belshazar tried, but couldn't find
A man who could give him peace of mind.

But Daniel, the prophet, a man of God,
He saw the writing on the wall in blood.
Belshazar asked him what it said,
And Daniel turned to the wall and read:

"My friend, you're weighed in the balance and found wanting,
Your kingdom is divided, it can't stand.
You're weighed in the balance and found wanting,
Your houses are built upon the sand."

Johnny Cash

Liberdade

Viemos com o peso do passado e da semente
esperar tantos anos torna tudo mais urgente
e a sede de uma espera só se ataca na torrente
e a sede de uma espera só se ataca na torrente

Vivemos tantos anos a falar pela calada
só se pode querer tudo quanto não se teve nada
só se quer a vida cheia quem teve vida parada
só se quer a vida cheia quem teve vida parada

Só há liberdade a sério quando houver
a paz o pão
habitação
saúde educação
só há liberdade a sério quando houver
liberdade de mudar e decidir
quando pertencer ao povo o que o povo produzir.

Sérgio Godinho

Fado Malhoa

Alguém que Deus já lá tem
Pintor consagrado,
Que foi bem grande
E nos fez já ser do passado,
Pintou numa tela
Com arte e com vida
A trova mais bela
Da terra mais querida.

Subiu a um quarto que viu
A luz do petróleo
E fez o mais português
Dos quadros a óleo
Um Zé de Samarra
Com a amante a seu lado
Com os dedos agarra
Percorre a guitarra
E ali vê-se o fado.

Dali vos digo que ouvi
A voz que se esmera
Dançando o Faia banal
Cantando a Severa
Aquilo é bairrista
Aquilo é Lisboa
Aquilo é fadista
Aquilo é de artista
E aquilo é Malhoa.

José Galhardo/Frederico Valério

Miss Otis Regrets (she's unable to lunch today)

Miss Otis regrets, she's unable to lunch today, madam,
Miss Otis regrets, she's unable to lunch today.
She is sorry to be delayed,
but last evening down in Lover's Lane she strayed, madam,
Miss Otis regrets, she's unable to lunch today.

When she woke up and found that her dream of love was gone, madam,
She ran to the man who had led her so far astray,
And from under her velvet gown,
She drew a gun and shot her love down, madam,
Miss Otis regrets, she's unable to lunch today.

When the mob came and got her and dragged her from the jail, madam,
They strung her upon the old willow across the way,
And the moment before she died,
She lifted up her lovely head and cried, madam...
Miss Otis regrets, she's unable to lunch today.

Miss Otis regrets, she's unable to lunch today.

Cole Porter

NEIGHBORHOOD BULLY

Well, the neighborhood bully, he’s just one man,
His enemies say he’s on their land.
They got him outnumbered about a million to one,
He got no place to escape to, no place to run.
He’s the neighborhood bully.

The neighborhood bully just lives to survive,
He’s criticized and condemned for being alive.
He’s not supposed to fight back, he’s supposed to have thick skin,
He’s supposed to lay down and die when his door is kicked in.
He’s the neighborhood bully.

The neighborhood bully been driven out of every land,
He’s wandered the earth an exiled man.
Seen his family scattered, his people hounded and torn,
He’s always on trial for just being born.
He’s the neighborhood bully.

Well, he knocked out a lynch mob, he was criticized,
Old women condemned him, said he should apologize.
Then he destroyed a bomb factory, nobody was glad.
The bombs were meant for him.
He was supposed to feel bad.
He’s the neighborhood bully.

Well, the chances are against it and the odds are slim
That he’ll live by the rules that the world makes for him,
‘Cause there’s a noose at his neck and a gun at his back
And a license to kill him is given out to every maniac.
He’s the neighborhood bully.

He got no allies to really speak of.
What he gets he must pay for, he don’t get it out of love.
He buys obsolete weapons and he won’t be denied
But no one sends flesh and blood to fight by his side.
He’s the neighborhood bully.

Well, he’s surrounded by pacifists who all want peace,
They pray for it nightly that the bloodshed must cease.
Now, they wouldn’t hurt a fly.
To hurt one they would weep.
They lay and they wait for this bully to fall asleep.
He’s the neighborhood bully.

Every empire that’s enslaved him is gone,
Egypt and Rome, even the great Babylon.
He’s made a garden of paradise in the desert sand,
In bed with nobody, under no one’s command.
He’s the neighborhood bully.

Now his holiest books have been trampled upon,
No contract he signed was worth what it was written on.
He took the crumbs of the world and he turned it into wealth,
Took sickness and disease and he turned it into health.
He’s the neighborhood bully.

What’s anybody indebted to him for?
Nothin’, they say.
He just likes to cause war.
Pride and prejudice and superstition indeed,
They wait for this bully like a dog waits to feed.
He’s the neighborhood bully.

What has he done to wear so many scars?
Does he change the course of rivers?
Does he pollute the moon and stars?
Neighborhood bully, standing on the hill,
Running out the clock, time standing still,
Neighborhood bully.

Bob Dylan

O pardon me, thou bleeding piece of earth,
That I am meek and gentle with these butchers!
Thou art the ruins of the noblest man
That ever lived in the tide of times.
Woe to the hand that shed this costly blood!
Over thy wounds now do I prophesy -
Which like dumb mouths do ope their ruby lips
To beg the voice and utterance of my tongue -
A curse shall light upon the limbs of men;
Domestic fury and fierce civil strife
Shall cumber all the parts of Italy;
Blood and destruction shall be so in use,
And dreadful objects so familiar,
That mothers shall but smile when they behold
Their infants quartered with the hands of war,
All pity chok'd with custom of fell deeds;
And Caesar's spirit, ranging for revenge,
With Até by his side come hot from hell,
Shall in these confines with a monarch's voice
Cry "Havoc!" and let slip the dogs of war,
That this foul deed shall smell above the earth
With carrion men, groaning for burial.

William Shakespeare

JULIUS CAESAR, III-1

Death be not proud

Death be not proud, though some have called thee
Mighty and dreadful, for thou art not so,
For those whom thou think'st thou dost overthrow,
Die not, poor Death, nor yet canst thou kill me.
From rest and sleep, which but thy pictures be,
Much pleasure: then from thee much more must flow,
And soonest our best men with thee do go,
Rest of their bones, and soul's delivery.

Thou art slave to fate, chance, kings, and desperate men,
And dost with poison, war, and sickness dwell;
And poppy or charms can make us sleep as well
And better than thy stroke; why swell'st thou then?
One short sleep past, we wake eternally,
And death shall be no more; Death, thou shalt die.

John Donne

Generales
traidores
mirad mi casa muerta
mirad España rota:
pero de cada casa muerta sale metal ardiendo
en vez de flores,
pero de cada hueco de España
sale España,
pero de cada niño muerto sale un fusil con ojos,
pero de cada crimen nacen balas
que os hallarán un día el sitio
del corazón.

Pablo Neruda

LIBERDADE

Liberdade querida e suspirada,
Que o Despotismo acérrimo condena;
Liberdade, a meus olhos mais serena,
Que o sereno clarão da madrugada!

Atende à minha voz, que geme e brada
Por ver-te, por gozar-te a face amena;
Liberdade gentil, desterra a pena
Em que esta alma infeliz jaz sepultada;

Vem, oh deusa imortal, vem, maravilha,
Vem, oh consolação da humanidade,
Cujo semblante mais que os astros brilha;

Vem, solta-me o grilhão da adversidade;
Dos céus descende, pois dos Céus és filha,
Mãe dos prazeres, doce Liberdade!

Manuel Maria Barbosa du Bocage

By the rivers dark

By the rivers dark
I wandered on.
I lived my life
in Babylon.

And I did forget
My holy song:
And I had no strength
In Babylon.

By the rivers dark
Where I could not see
Who was waiting there
Who was hunting me.

And he cut my lip
And he cut my heart.
So I could not drink
From the river dark.

And he covered me,
And I saw within,
My lawless heart
And my wedding ring,

I did not know
And I could not see
Who was waiting there,
Who was hunting me.

By the rivers dark
I panicked on.
I belonged at last
to Babylon.

Then he struck my heart
With a deadly force,
And he said,
‘This heart:It is not yours.’

And he gave the wind
My wedding ring;
And he circled us
With everything.

By the rivers dark,
In a wounded dawn,
I live my life
In Babylon.

Though I take my song
From a withered limb,
Both song and tree,
They sing for him.

Be the truth unsaid
And the blessing gone,
If I forget
My Babylon.

I did not know
And I could not see
Who was waiting there,
Who was hunting me.

By the rivers dark,
Where it all goes on;
By the rivers dark
In Babylon.

Leonard Cohen

Letra para um hino

É possível falar sem um nó na garganta
é possível amar sem que venham proibir
é possível correr sem que seja fugir.
Se tens vontade de cantar não tenhas medo: canta.

É possível andar sem olhar para o chão
é possível viver sem que seja de rastos.
Os teus olhos nasceram para olhar os astros
se te apetece dizer não grita comigo: não.

É possível viver de outro modo. É
possível transformares em arma a tua mão.
É possível o amor. É possível o pão.
É possível viver de pé.

Não te deixes murchar. Não deixes que te domem.
É possível viver sem fingir que se vive.
É possível ser homem.
É possível ser livre livre livre.

Manuel Alegre