Les Deux Poetes.(Translation) . Poem by Michael Walker
Les Deux Poetes.(Translation) .
Deux poetes naquirent ou les cieux etaient beaux,
Habiter le pays par la suite;
Et l'un d'eux etait un chanteur de douleur et du soin,
Et l'un etait un poete du rire.
De mesure simple et de mot simple,
Exprimant les sentiments du genre humain-
Et les coeurs aimables ecoutaient et les coeurs entendaient,
Et ils partirent sur leur chemin rejouissant.
Les aimables rejouissaient que le monde etait joyeux-
Qui ne pensaient pas au demain-
Et il a toujuours allege les coeurs des tristes
D' entendre de la douleur d'un autre.
Les poetes moururent quand personne ne le savait,
(Car personne ne vit la marque)
Que l'aimable etait le poete du soin,
Mais le coeur de l'autre etait brise.
-' The Two Poets'. Henry Lawson (1867-1922) .
Henry Lawson was an Australian poet and balladeer of the 19th. and early 20th. centuries.This lyric speaks of two poets born in the same place; one was a poet of sorrow; the other was a poet of jokes and laughter. The poets used simple words and metre to reach a wide, popular audience. Both the light-hearted and the sad of heart listened and felt happy. The glad rejoiced that the world was joyous: the sad of heart felt cheered up to hear of another's misfortune.
All went well until the two poets died, unnoticed. The light-hearted poet was the one who cared, but the sad poet's heart was broken. Quite a subtle poem about appearances and reality.
This poem has not been translated into any other language yet.
I would like to translate this poem
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8/29/2026 8:56:22 PM # rel_20260827T145718Z_a0f1bd3
thanks for introducing this poem to me, Robert.