TANPINAR, Ahmet Hamdi


Fear

I have the fear of all things that end,

I am the Blue Eagle who drags the dawn

Along in his iron beak. . .

. . . . . . . . . . . .And life is caught

Within my claws like dangling emeralds

And deathlessness along my lovely swoop

Now bites the thirsty antelope of time.

translated by Talat S. Halman