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1861 - 1930
Born in Brava (Cape Verde). Self-taught, civil servant, journalist and a controversialist. Playwright, poet and writer. Paradigm of Creole culture, author of numerous mornas. |
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| Oh eternal, bottomless sea Without end Oh sea of troubled waves Oh sea! From you and from the talk of the town to me Nothing but pain and plague have come Oh sea! What wrong have I done you, oh sea, oh sea That when you see me you start panting, panting Breaking your waves Against the naked rocks Hold back your anger for a moment Listen To the voice of my suffering In the struggle That love has lit in my breast Broken Through so much love and pain Oh sea! You even seem, oh sea, oh sea Like a heart panting, panting In waves through the furnaces Breaking its sorrows Give me news of my love, Love That one day the winds of heaven Oh grief! In their furious arms Took away And of my smile, oh envious ones, They robbed me He never came home, came home Him I saw no more oh sea, oh sea Cold sea sepulchre Of my dark soul You have robbed me of the dearest light Of love, And left me lifeless In horror Oh soul of the tempest Calm down Don't take from me my longing And my hope This longing, is who, is who Supports me so faithful, faithful It?s like a sweet mother The gentlest and cruel But pain of this affliction Which wracks My unhappy heart Blessed Blessed be the hope That still Promises me the calm So beautiful! Mornas |
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