(Hungarian, November 22, 1877 - January 27, 1919)
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PÁRISBAN JÁRT AZ ŐSZ
Párisba tegnap beszökött az Ősz.
Szent Mihály útján suhant nesztelen,
Kánikulában, halk lombok alatt
S találkozott velem.
Ballagtam éppen a Szajna felé
S égtek lelkemben kis rőzse-dalok:
Füstösek, furcsák, búsak, bíborak,
Arról, hogy meghalok.
Elért az Ősz és súgott valamit,
Szent Mihály útja beleremegett,
Züm, züm: röpködtek végig az úton
Tréfás falevelek.
Egy perc: a Nyár meg sem hőkölt belé
S Párisból az Ősz kacagva szaladt.
Itt járt, s hogy itt járt, én tudom csupán
Nyögő lombok alatt.
[Ady Endre összes költeményei]
André Kertész: Un poeme de Ady
AUTUMN PASSED THROUGH PARIS
Autumn slipped into Paris yesterday,
came silently down Boulevard St Michel,
In sultry heat, past boughs sullen and still,
and met me on its way.
As I walked on to where the Seine flows by,
little twig songs burned softly in my heart,
smoky, odd, sombre, purple songs. I thought
they sighed that I shall die.
Autumn drew abreast and whispered to me,
Boulevard St Michel that moment shivered.
Rustling, the dusty, playful leaves quivered,
whirled forth along the way.
One moment: summer took no heed: whereon,
laughing, autumn sped away from Paris.
That it was here, I alone bear witness,
under the trees that moan.
Translated by Doreen Bell
[Hundred Hungarian Poems, Albion Editions, Manchester, 1976]
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AUTUMN SLIPPED INTO PARIS
Autumn slipped into Paris yesterday,
gliding silently down Rue Saint Michel,
beneath the noonday Dog and hush of trees
she met me with her spell.
I had been sauntering toward the Seine;
small-fry kindling-songs smouldered in my head,
purple and pensive, strange and smokey-hued;
that I'll soon die, they said.
Then autumn whispered something from behind.
The road of Saint Michel began to shake.
Wish, wish - the jesting leaves arose in swirls
along the gusty wake.
One moment - summer had not even blenched,
and autumn fled away with mocking ease.
She came, but that she came, alone I knew
beneath the moaning trees.
Translated by Anton N. Nyerges and Adam Makkai
[In Quest of the 'Miracle Stag': The Poetry of Hungary]
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ADY Endre
Fotó: Székely Aladár
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