Lesya Ukrainka - My Burning Heart
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My heart is burning up as in a raging fire,
Consumed within a flame of bitter grief;
Why then can I not weep and with a flood of tears
Extinguish that fierce flame and find relief?
My soul within me weeps and cries in agony,
While not a tear bears witness to my woe;
For tears will not well up and gush forth from my eyes
Because the fire dries them ere they flow.
Would that I might go forth into the open field,
And falling on earth’s bosom grey and sere,
Pour out my loud lament until the stars should mark,
And people quake to see me weeping there!
Translated by
PERCIVAL CUNDY
