Une Dame Pale. (Translation) . Poem by Michael Walker

Une Dame Pale. (Translation) .

Dame pale et delicieuse,
Comme je t'aime!
Je voudrais etaler des violettes fraiches
A tes pieds
Et t'apporter de beaux bijoux
Pour tes cheveux,
Et mettre une petite anneau doree
Sur ton doight
Et la laisser la
Comme un signe et un symbole de mon amour,
Mon amour brillant, brillant pour toi.
Oh, dame, pale et delicieuse,
Comme je suis amoureux de toi!

- 'Pale Lady'. Langston Hughes. 'The Collected Poems of Langston Hughes', op. cit., p.72. (Poems 1921-1930) .

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This written when Hughes was young and impressionable, so it was easy to fall in love with a white lady. He expresses his love for her lavishly: he would like to give her jewels, put a gold ring on her finger as 'sign and symbol of my love'. He finds the pale lady delightful.
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