Ëþáèìà áóäåò ìíîé è âïðåäü,
õîòü åé ìî¸ æå èìÿ áûëü,
êàê òî æå ïëàòüå, ÷òî íà ìíå,
êàê ðûæèõ ïðÿäåé òîò æå ïûë...
Òàê áóäü - ëóãàìè âûêàç ìîé,
èõ ïðÿäüþ - íûí÷å çäåñü ïîñìåò...
Àâîñü áû åé íå ñìî÷ü ïðåçðåòü
ìîé ëþòèê ïîëåâîé...
Äà, öåëîñòíîñòü çàòìèò ëîñêóò,
íî òîëèêà,- óíÿâøè ãðóäü,
ïîêà áûë öàðñòâåí ëóã,
ñâåæèâ,-
êàê îò ìîäèñòêè öâåò,
ðàç âå÷íûì ëåòîì äàð ñîãðåò,
íå îñëåïèò ï÷åëó.
(Ýìèëè - î Ñüþ.
Âåñüìà óìåñòíûé Ïðèñò:
The ‘She’ of the poem is almost certainly Sue. Although it
is seven years since Emily’s relationship with Sue was altered
by Sue’s marriage to Austin, Sue and that relationship are still
precious to Emily, even if Sue seems to have forgotten that Emily
wears a white dress and has red hair. As Judith Farr comments,
‘for Emily no passion ever died.’
All Emily dares to do now is to send Sue this poem together
with a Buttercup, a Tress of the Meadows. She understands that
the empire of the ‘Whole’ number, which is Sue’s marriage to Austin,
‘obscures the Part,’ which was Sue’s relationship with Emily,
even if that part once appeased Sue’s heart. Poignantly she adds
that Sue now regards her just as the ‘dazzled Bee’ regards some
‘Milliner’s flower’ when confronted by ‘Summer’s Everlasting Dower.’
A mental full stop is needed at the end of line11, and ‘remembered’
in line 12 agrees with ‘fraction’ in line 10.)
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Precious to Me -- She still shall be -- by Emily Dickinson
Precious to Me -- She still shall be --
Though She forget the name I bear --
The fashion of the Gown I wear --
The very Color of My Hair --
So like the Meadows -- now --
I dared to show a Tress of Theirs
If haply -- She might not despise
A Buttercup's Array --
I know the Whole -- obscures the Part --
The fraction -- that appeased the Heart
Till Number's Empery --
Remembered -- as the Milliner's flower
When Summer's Everlasting Dower --
Confronts the dazzled Bee.