I would distil a cup by Emily Dickinson

Нагнать бы чашу мне,
снести бы всем друзьям,
упившись той, впредь ни ногой
к болотцу иль ручьям!




(Благодарен Лилии Мальцевой,
поправившей меня в моей ошибке.
Переводил всё заново.)

[David Preest:
This quatrain comes in a letter (L193)
to Mr Bowles of late August 1858,
immediately after she has written,
‘Summer stopped since you were here……..
The men are mowing the second Hay.
The cocks are smaller than the first and spicier,’
thus making it clear that the ‘her’ of the poem
is the summer of 1858. Emily would like
all her friends to drink a toast of gratitude
to the summer that has just departed.
In the letter the words are written as prose,
and Franklin omits them from his
collection of her poems.]

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I would distil a cup by Emily Dickinson

I would distil a cup,         
And bear to all my friends,   
Drinking to her no more astir,
By beck, or burn, or moor!