Jan Neruda
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Mesicek, pekny mladenec,
s jemne zarici lici,
obleta Zemi panenku
jak holub holubici.
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Frogs sat around a puddle
And gazed at heavens high
Frog teacher pounding into skulls
The science of the sky.
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Take to Slunce ohnive
pomalu pousina,
prijde i jeho hodinka,
zhasne a mrtve zsina.
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Kdyz k vam vesel hledim, zlata vy Kuratka,
slysim nase pisne, ceska zrim devcatka.
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Letni ty noci zariva,
jakz tebou srdce okriva -
ve dne tak sladkobolno,
a ted tak volno, volno!
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Zelena hvezdo v zenitu,
svit vesele, vesele!
Kdyz si tak nekdy vzpomenu,
jak stari jsme pratele
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Snad jini jinak uvidi -
ja myslim nebe sire si jak nasi zemi
a pri hvezdach si myslim na lidi.
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Jak lvove bijem o mrize,
jak lvove v kleci jati,
my bychom vzhuru k nebesum,
a jsme zde Zemi spjati.
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V puste jsme nebeske koncine,
Slunce i se planetami,
jinde je svetu jen naseto,
my jsme tak svetove sami!
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Dej Zeme je kratce jen vypraven,
jak pisen se kratce sklada:
vyletla jiskricka z plamenu,
a zcernala zpet zas pada.
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Vsechny ty virive planety,
s mesici prilepky,
vyletly do sveta sireho
ze Slunce z kolebky.
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Zem byla ditetem; myslela,
ona ze vesmiru pysny stred
a kvuli ni Slunce i obloha
a cely siry Svet.
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Ze skaly jiz Zeme plameny
v nezdolna pouta kuji?
Vzdyt ja je zrim, ty plameny,
vrch Zeme poskakuji!
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Vzhuru jiz hlavu, narode,
k nebi sve zdvihni oci!
Viz: jsou tam i male hvezdicky,
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Mesic mrtev. Pri nem ve prodleni
den se s noci strida jak dve mnichu,
jak dve mnichu, ne vic ku obsluze,
jen co mrtvych straze na modleni.
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Jiz vyznam se ze vsech hrichu svych,
rad divky ze za pas beru,
a miluju-li ja k smrti rad,
ze jeste se radej peru.
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Ty vecne hlasy proroku,
ze take mrtvi budem,
nuz ano, ano, vime to -
my Sveta neprebudem
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Oblaky Zeme jsou synove tklivi,
maticku Zemi si krvi svou zivi,
slzami smyvaji starobne vrasky,
mladi ji lice a svezi ji vlasky,
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Coz trepota se to tu hvezdicek,
jak vcelicek ve vzletlem roji! -
Proc asi ta jedna jedina
tam samotna povzdal stoji?
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Kdo mekkym je, ten bidne mre!
Aj, lide, vzhuru k nebi zrak:
velka ta svetla - samy drak -
had hada-li nepozre,
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Jan Neruda Biography
Jan Nepomuk Neruda was a Czech journalist, writer and poet, one of the most prominent representatives of Czech Realism and a member of "the May school". Jan Neruda was born in Prague, Bohemia, son of a small grocer who lived in the Malá Strana (Lesser Quarter) district of Prague. After studying philosophy and philology, he worked as a teacher until 1860, when he became a freelance journalist and writer. Neruda never married but had a close relationship to the writer Karolína Světlá. In his work Neruda promoted the idea of rebirth of Czech patriotism. He participated in all the central cultural and political struggles of his generation, and gained a reputation as a sensitive critic. Neruda became, with Vítězslav Hálek, the most prominent representative of the new literary trends. Neruda was known for his satirical depiction of the petty bourgeois of Prague. His most popular prose work is "Povídky malostranské" (1877, Tales of the Little Side), a collection of short stories, which was translated into English in 1957 by the novelist and mystery writer Ellis Peters. Neruda's stories take the reader to the Lesser Quarter, to its streets and yards, shops, churches, houses, and restaurants. He died in 1891 and was interred in the Vyšehrad cemetery in Prague. After his death, one of the streets in Lesser Quarter (Ostruhová Street well known from his books), now Nerudova ulice (Neruda Street), was named after him. The Chilean poet Neftalí Ricardo Reyes Basoalto (Pablo Neruda), Nobel Prize in Literature 1971, took his pseudonym after Jan Neruda.)
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Mesicek, pekny mladenec,
s jemne zarici lici,
obleta Zemi panenku
jak holub holubici.
Kdyz ji hled jeho polibi,
zvlni se nadra jeji,
ohen se vnitrni rozkypi
a rty se zarem chveji.
Prece se vecne upejpa,
ret jeji vzdy zas chladne,
stoudne si vede vpovzdali -
a Mesic schne a vadne.
Znej ty panenky jako ja,
budes si vest jinace:
ve dne se kazda upejpa -
a v noci blahem place.
Panenka Zem po celou noc
hledi k tve slicne tvari -
k ranu je plno rosnych slz
jak divcim po polstari.
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