Uma
freira professa votos perpétuos
Eu tenho desejado ir
Onde as primaveras não falham,
Aos campos onde moscas, atrevidas e astutas,
não habitam,
E alguns lírios nascem.
E tenho pedido para estar
Onde nenhuma tempestade há-de chegar,
Onde a corrente verde está abrigada e muda,
E fora da oscilação do mar.
Tradução
de Ricardo Marques
Original:
A nun
takes the veil
I have desired to go
Where springs not fail,
To fields where flies no sharp and
sided hail
And a few lilies blow.
And I have asked to be
Where no storms come,
Where the green swell is in the
havens dumb,
And out of the swing of the sea.
Hopkins wrote this poem
while he was an undergrad at Balliol College, probably in July or August of
1864, during his long vacation from school. In a letter to his friend Alexander
William Mowbray Baillie, 20 July-14 August 1864, Hopkins records several things
that may have provoked and influenced the writing of this poem: he has just met
Christina Rossetti and written a response to her poem, "The Convent Threshold," and he also describes an art show he attended where he may have been influenced
by paintings like Charles Collins’s Convent Thoughts (1851) or John Everett
Millais’s Vale of Rest (1859). Also, Hopkins’s sister Millicent was interested
in the Anglican sisterhood and would later become an "out sister" of All
Saints’ Home, an Anglican sisterhood in London, in 1874, and a full sister in
1878. While Hopkins in 1864 was still an Anglican, he had already begun to
investigate conversion to the Catholic faith, and two years later he did in
fact convert.

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