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The Black Cat and Other Stories - Edgar Allan Poe
(Черный кот и другие рассказы - Эдгар Аллан По)

Эдгар Аллан По наибольшую известность получил за свои «мрачные» рассказы - был одним из первых американских писателей, кто создавал свои произведения в виде коротких рассказов.

Take this kiss upon the brow!
And, in parting from you now,
Thus much let me avow-
You are not wrong, who deem
That my days have been a dream;
Yet if hope has flown away
In a night, or in a day,
In a vision, or in none,

From childhood's hour I have not been
As others were — I have not seen
As others saw — I could not bring
My passions from a common spring —
From the same source I have not taken
My sorrow — I could not awaken
My heart to joy at the same tone —

It was many and many a year ago,

In a kingdom by the sea,

That a maiden there lived whom you may know

By the name of Annabel Lee;

Анни

Закончена с жизнью
Опасная схватка,
Болезнь разрешилась,
Прошла лихорадка,
Зовут ее Жизнь,
А она - лихорадка.

Le château dans lequel mon domestique s’était avisé de pénétrer de force, plutôt que de me permettre, déplorablement blessé comme je l’étais, de passer une nuit en plein air, était un de ces bâtiments, mélange de grandeur et de mélancolie, qui ont si longtemps dressé leurs fronts sourcilleux au milieu des Apennins, aussi bien dans la réalité que dans l’imagination de mistress Radcliffe. Selon toute apparence, il avait été temporairement et tout récemment abandonné. Nous nous installâmes dans une des chambres les plus petites et les moins somptueusement meublées. Elle était située dans une tour écartée du bâtiment. Sa décoration était riche, mais antique et délabrée. Les murs étaient tendus de tapisseries et décorés de nombreux trophées héraldiques de toute forme, ainsi que d’une quantité vraiment prodigieuse de peintures modernes, pleines de style, dans de riches cadres d’or d’un goût arabesque. Je pris un profond intérêt, — ce fut peut-être mon délire qui commençait qui en fut cause, — je pris un profond intérêt à ces peintures qui étaient suspendues non seulement sur les faces principales des murs, mais aussi dans une foule de recoins que la bizarre architecture du château rendait inévitables ; si bien que j’ordonnai à Pedro de fermer les lourds volets de la chambre, — puisqu’il faisait déjà nuit, — d’allumer un grand candélabre à plusieurs branches placé près de son chevet, et d’ouvrir tout grands les rideaux de velours noir garnis de crépines qui entouraient le lit. Je désirais que cela fût ainsi, pour que je pusse au moins, si je ne pouvais pas dormir, me consoler alternativement par la contemplation de ces peintures et par la lecture d’un petit volume que j’avais trouvé sur l’oreiller et qui en contenait l’appréciation et l’analyse.

Ah, broken is the golden bowl! the spirit flown forever!
Let the bell toll!-a saintly soul floats on the Stygian river;
And, Guy de Vere, hast thou no tear?-weep now or nevermore!
See! on yon drear and rigid bier low lies thy love, Lenore!
Come! let the burial rite be read-the funeral song be sung!-
An anthem for the queenliest dead that ever died so young-
A dirge for her the doubly dead in that she died so young.

Poe:

Di, por qué estoy así
dime en que fallé,
soy solo una sombra de lo que soñé

Conciencia de Poe:

Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary,
Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore—
While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping,
As of some one gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door.
“’Tis some visitor,” I muttered, “tapping at my chamber door—
Only this and nothing more.”

Ah, distinctly I remember it was in the bleak December;

LO! 't is a gala night
Within the lonesome latter years!
An angel throng, bewinged, bedight
In veils, and drowned in tears,
Sit in a theatre, to see
A play of hopes and fears,
While the orchestra breathes fitfully
The music of the spheres.

The Fall of the House of Usher
Edgar Allan Poe

Son coeur est un luth suspendu;
Sitot qu'on le touche il resonne.
De Beranger.

During the whole of a dull, dark, and soundless day in the autumn of the year, when the clouds hung oppressively low in the heavens, had been passing alone, on horseback, through a singularly dreary tract of country; and at length found myself, as the shades of the evening drew on, within view of the melancholy House of Usher. I know not how it was — but, with the first glimpse of the building, a sense of insufferable gloom pervaded my spirit. I say insufferable; for the feeling was unrelieved by any of that half-pleasurable, because poetic, sentiment, with which the mind usually receives even the sternest natural images of the desolate or terrible. I looked upon the scene before me — upon the mere house, and the simple landscape features of the domain — upon the bleak walls — upon the vacant eye-like windows — upon a few rank sedges — and upon a few white trunks of decayed trees — with an utter depression of soul which I can compare to no earthly sensation more properly than to the after-dream of the reveller upon opium — the bitter lapse into everyday life-the hideous dropping off of the reveller upon opium — the bitter lapse into everyday life — the hideous dropping off of the veil. There was an iciness, a sinking, a sickening of the heart — an unredeemed dreariness of thought which no goading of the imagination could torture into aught of the sublime.

In the greenest of our valleys,
By good angels tenanted,
Once a fair and stately palace--
Radiant palace--reared its head.
In the monarch Thought's dominion--
It stood there!
Never seraph spread a pinion
Over fabric half so fair.

The Raven

Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary,
Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore,
While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping,
As of some one gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door.
"'Tis some visitor," I muttered, "tapping at my chamber door —
Only this, and nothing more."