BEKSINSKI prog artist

Good to hear you like our language so much, Fassbinder, I've started learning Russian lately, and it's a beautiful language as well, very affectionate .

I'll try to find that Mickiewicz poem for you.

Do you mean this one, maybe?


PIERWIOSNEK



Z niebieskich najrańszą piosnek

Ledwie zadzwonił skowronek,

Najrańszy kwiatek pierwiosnek

Błysnął ze złotych obsłonek.



Ja

Za wcześnie, kwiatku, za wcześnie,

Jeszcze północ mrozem dmucha,

Z gór białe nie zeszły pleśnie,

Dąbrowa jeszcze nie sucha.



Przymruż złociste światełka,

Ukryj się pod matki rąbek,

Nim cię zgubi śronu ząbek

Lub chłodnej rosy perełka.



Kwiatek

Dni nasze jak dni motylka,

Życiem wschód, śmiercią południe;

Lepsza w kwietniu jedna chwilka

Niż w jesieni całe grudnie.



Czy dla bogów szukasz datku,

Czy dla druha lub kochanki,

Upleć wianek z mego kwiatku,

Wianek to będzie nad wianki.



Ja

W podlej trawce, w dzikim lasku

Urosleś, o kwiatku luby!

Mało wzrostu, mało blasku,

Cóż ci daje tyle chluby?



Ni to kolory jutrzenki,

Ni zawoje tulipana,

Ni lilijowe sukienki,

Ni róży pierś malowana.



Uplatam ciebie do wianka;

Lecz skądże ufności tyle!

Przyjaciele i kochanka

Czy cię powitają mile?



Kwiatek

Powitają przyjaciele

Mnie, wiosny młodej aniołka;

Przyjaźń ma blasku niewiele

I cień lubi jak me ziołka.



Czym kochanki godzien rączek,

Powiedz, niebieska Marylko!

Za pierwszy młodości pączek

Zyskam pierwszą... ach! łzę tylko.

Fassbinder wrote: Also, I tried szukac Mickiewicza w Internete, found quite a lot, but haven't found one particular poem I was interested with. Its title in Polish is unknown to me but it was translated as "(The) Last Gift". Do you know anything about it?   Once again, dziekuje bardzo.

I can't associate the english title with the polish one. Maybe it's not a direct translation. Could you give more details, please? What's the poem about?
    

Fassbinder, here's some Polish poetry for you. Even though you might not understand everything, I'm sure you'll enjoy it even more.

http://www.najlepsze.pl/watson/szymborska.php  - you can choose other poets from the lists on the left.

http://www.zbigniew.herbert.pl/   - click on one of the names of poetry collections (they're in white on black background - only the first four are active) and then choose a poem from the left hand column.

For some reason (Firefox?) I can't put active links into the post, so just copy/paste, please.


Edited by Visitor13 - October 04 2006 at 04:15

Wolf Spider wrote: So much for the grat polish reunion thing

Poles apart?

It became also a multilingual thread -- I've never seen a sig in Georgian here in PA (nor in Armenian either...)

First of all, welcome to all newly-arrived non-Poles here, I really hope this thread isn't perceived as some sort of cliqueish affair, everyone's welcome to join and discuss whatever topic they like.

Secondly - Wolf, stop crying and blow your nose, happily we're nearly all here and posts are going to happen, maybe not very frequently, but happen they will.

So much for the grat polish reunion thing 

Fassbinder wrote: I also think my native language (Russian) is beautiful, but I'm not a good example -- I'm in love with the theme of languages at all. And, also, the charm a native speaker feels to his/her language and the charm a person who doesn't speak a certain language feels aren't the same. I don't know much about Finnish, though I know (Knew?) something about its phonetics as I made a work on it when I was studying.

Well, I must say I liked Russian language when I was at primary school (but I haven't Russian lessons, I only learned the Cyrillic alphabet by myself)... and still I can read your alphabet :>

Vompatti wrote: I think Finnish is a very beautiful language, even though I'm a native speaker.