Mozart in Prague: Thirteen Rondels

by Jaroslav Seifert, Paul Jagasich, Tom O'Grady (Translator)

Book by Seifert, Jaroslav, Jagasich, Paul

31 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1946

About the author

Awarded 1984 Nobel Prize in Literature "for his poetry which endowed with freshness, and rich inventiveness provides a liberating image of the indomitable spirit and versatility of man."

Reviews

[Talitha34]

I think I just didn't understand the style of Seifert

[Steven Godin]

VI.

Beautiful love flames—goodbye!
Music touches me like a gentle finger.
And and she, the lonely singer,
will not talk of the unspeakable lie.

Put out the light! In the dark, the eye
knows the weak words that linger here.
Beautiful love flames—goodbye!
Music touches me like a gentle finger.

Both of us become confused and shy.
A window slowly opens on the shimmer
of night battling with rising sky.
Prague, far away, is rosy pink and
glimmers.

Beautiful love flames—goodbye!