This bold new translation with facing French text restores once banned poems to their original places and reveals the full richness and variety of the collection.
Manufacturer : Oxford University Press, USA Release date : 17 September 1998 ISBN-10 : 0192835459 |
ISBN-13: 9780192835451
"The Albatross
Often, when bored, the sailors of the crew
Trap albatross, the great birds of the seas,
Mild travelers escorting in the blue
Ships gliding on the ocean's mysteries.
And when the sailors have them on the planks,
Hurt and distraught, these kings of all outdoors
Piteously let trail along their flanks
Their great white wings, dragging like useless oars.
This voyager, how comical and weak!
Once handsome, how unseemly and inept!
One sailor pokes a pipe into his beak,
Another mocks the"