Poslijepodne u veljači - Afternoon in February

   The day is ending,
   The night is descending;
   The marsh is frozen,
   The river dead.

   Through clouds like ashes
   The red sun flashes
   On village windows
   That glimmer red.

   The snow recommences;
   The buried fences
   Mark no longer
   The road o'er the plain;

   While through the meadows,
   Like fearful shadows,
   Slowly passes
   A funeral train.

   The bell is pealing,
   And every feeling
   Within me responds
   To the dismal knell;

   Shadows are trailing,
   My heart is bewailing
   And tolling within
   Like a funeral bell.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

(1807 - 1882)

Afternoon in February — Poslijepodne u veljaci

(1845)

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow was a commanding figure in the cultural life of nineteenth-century America.
Born in Portland, Maine, in 1807, he became a national literary figure by the 1850s,
and a world- famous personality by the time of his death in 1882.
He was a traveler, a linguist, and a romantic who identified with the great traditions of European literature and thought.
At the same time, he was rooted in American life and history,
which charged his imagination with untried themes and made him ambitious for success.

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   Dan koncu krece
   Spusta se vece
   Ledi se bara
   I rijeka mre.

   Oblak svjetluca
   Sunce paluca
   Na seoskom oknu
   Zari se — gle!

   Iznova snijezi
   Ograda lezi
   I uz puteljak
   Ne stoji blijed.

   Pasnjake snene
   Strahotne sjene
   Prolaze: ide
   Pogrebni red.

   A zvono tuce
   Misli me muce
   I cuvstva mojih
   Turobni ton.

   Sjene su duge
   Srce od tuge
   Udara, bije
   Posljednji zvon.