C.P. Cavafy - Sweet Voices and Voices

Sweet Voices

Those voices are the sweeter which have fallen
            forever silent, mournfully
resounding only in the heart that sorrows.

In dreams the melancholic voices come,
            timorous and humble,
and bring before our feeble memory

the precious dead, whom the cold cold earth
            conceals; for whom the mirthful
daybreak never shines, nor springtimes blossom.

Melodious voices sigh; and in the soul
            our lifes first poetry
sounds like music, in the night, thats far...