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# Modern Czech Poetry/Gaze of death

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OTAKAR BŘEZINA.
1. POHLED SMRTI.
U hlav lože a v soumracích tušení, mnohokrát, vím, pohled můj zhasínal před vítězným pohledem tvým.
V mém slabosť a touha, smích ocele blyštící v tvém, a v jeho zrcadle myšlénku vlastní uviděl jsem.
Šla bledá a zmatená v dálku zavátých neznámých Měst do šera a polárních nocí němou únavou cest.
Úzkosť nejistoty tuhla jí v tvář a věčných prostorů chlad na zmučené údy spínal jí, umdlené, kovový šat.
V záhyby mizících tvarů mlhami ze zraků tvých, jak z květu mystického stromu střásal se přívalem sníh,
a houštl a temněl, zář do sebe vpíjel a šlehal a vál, na ranách mé myšlenky jak v narudlých plamenech tál.
U hlav lože a v soumracích tušení, mnohokrát, vím, pohled můj zhasínal před utkvělým pohledem tvým.
Jak somnambul svedený z lože, bledý, spoután a něm pod hypnosou Nepoznaného jdu se svým snem
a přede mnou chví se v umdlených rukou mých dní, zraky tvými rozžatá světla pohřebních pochodní.
„Tajemné dálky“ (1895).
OTAKAR BŘEZINA.
GAZE OF DEATH.
“Secret Distances” (1895).
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# Modern Czech Poetry/Harvests of roses and grapes

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9. SKLIZNĚ RŮŽÍ A HROZNŮ.
Můj den plál v jaře čistou zelení a mnohé plaché ženy zněl tam krok a tisíc z radostí zrosených slok . . . Jak každé dmul se první touhou prs, vsadily všecky v sad můj růží trs a čekaly, zda vzejde ve snění . . .
A přátelé mi byli sadaři. Sta křů a stromů vsadili a rév . . . Teď po rocích a podzimech, kdy krev a zlato tryská z listí žlutého, kdy všecko zrá, jak z bronzu zkutého když všecko sluncem plá a zazáří
hle, pozdní růže, hrozny dozrají mi z přátelství a lásky přesladké. Je právě čas. A v chvíli překrátké já vezmu je, neb samy tíhou svou do trávy zrosené mi u nohou voníce rozloučením, spadají . . .
„Žně“ (1913).
9. HARVESTS OF ROSES AND GRAPES.
My day lit up the crops of stainless corn Where sounded many a timid woman's tread And myriad gladsome strophes dew-bespread. . . When every breast with early yearning thrilled, A rose-plot each within my garden tilled And waited, till in dreams it should be born.
My friends tilled likewise; full a hundred sprays And trees and vines they planted. At the end Of years and autumn-tides, when in a blend The yellow leafage gushes blood and gold. When ripens all, as from a bronzen mould, When in the sunlight all is glow and blaze,
Behold, the rose, the grape, late-mellowed. All To me in love and friendship passing fair. Their hour, in sooth. I shall not tarry, ere I cull them in, else, bending to my feet 'Neath their own weight, in grasses dewy-sweet, Fragrant in their departing, they will fall. . .
“The Harvests” (1913).
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# Modern Czech Poetry/Legend of secret guilt

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3. LEGENDA TAJEMNÉ VINY.
Jas hodin mých budoucích ozářil chvíli tu v snech a všemi svícemi lustrů rozkvetl v ní mých slavnostní sály: tam prýštěla hudba mých budoucích jar a stajených něh, rtů, které mne opojí, jiskřil tam smích a mámil tam dech, a zraky, v nichž čeká mne mlčení rozkoše s touhou tam plály,
Však marně jsem kráčel, kde v závratných rytmech se třás' zpěv Žití. Stín Někoho, jenž za mnou šel, přede mnou splýval; šel ze sálu do sálu, kam vkročil, žeh světelný has', zrcadla temněla, touha se zachvěla a hudby vítězný hlas jak sražen v nejnižší oktávy úzkosti němé se slíval,
3. LEGEND OF SECRET GUILT.
Flash of my coming hours illumined this moment in dreams And bloomed in my festive halls with every lustre ablaze, My coming springtides and hidden graces rippled in tuneful streams, l was dazed by lips, with breath that beguiles, with laughter that gleams, And eyes where awaited me muteness of rapture glowed there with yearning gaze.
But vainly l strode where quivered, in rhythm that dumbfound, Life's chant. The shadow of One before me and after me wended. Flitting from hall unto hall, bright blaze at its coming was drowned, Mirrors grew dim, yearning trembled and music's conquering sound As if thrust into lowliest octaves of silent anguish was blended.
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O duše má, odkud on přišel? A kolik staletí snad mých předků dušemi procházel, než došel až ke mně? Na kolik svatebních stolů jak ubrus koberec rekvií klad? Na kolik růžových úsměvů dechl svůj podzemní chlad? A v kolika lampách plamenem soli a lihu sesínal temně?
„Svítání na západě“ (1896).
O my soul, whence came it? And how many centuries has it passed Haply through souls of my forefathers, ere unto me it came? On how many marriage-tables as a requiem-cloth was it cast? On how many rose-hued smiles came its chill and earthen blast? And in how many lamps did it blanch amid salt and essence of flame?
“Dawning in the West” (1896).
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# Modern Czech Poetry/Front matter

MODERN
CZECH POETRY
SELECTED TEXTS WITH TRANSLATIONS
AND AN INTRODUCTION BY
P. SELVER
LONDON
KEGAN PAUL, TRENCH, TRUBNER & CO. LTD.
NEW YORK, E . P. DUTTON & CO.
1920
DEDICATED TO THE MEMORY OF
DR. JOSEF KARÁSEK (1868 – 1916)
AND
OTAKAR THEER (1880 – 1917)
# Modern Czech Poetry/Kijov

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PETR BEZRUČ.
1. KYJOV.
Ej, ztepilí šuhaji v čižmách vy, ej, děvčata v suknici rudé — vždy veselo bývalo v Kyjově, vždy veselo v Kyjově bude.
Tak jako to táhne z vonných rév, tak jako ty kypíš, má sloko — tak hoří ta ohnivá slovácká krev, tak ret pálí a srší oko.
Kdo chce nás bít, kdo chce nás urazit? My nevíme o pánu žádném — jak vesele dovedem žít a pít, tak vesele na poli padnem.
„Slezské písně“ (1909)
PETR BEZRUC.
1. KIJOV.
Ho, ye youthful swains, topbooted and lithe, Ho, ye damsels in scarlet wear. In Kijov town ye ever were blithe, And blithe shall ye ever be there.
E'en as from fragrant vines it had gushed, E'en as ye seethe, my lays; The blood of the Slovaks is fierily flushed, Lips burn and eyes are ablaze.
Who shall smite us, who shall afflict us with ill? Of a master naught we know; And as blithe as we live and drink our fill, As blithe to our end we shall go.
“Silesian Songs” (1909).
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# Modern Czech Poetry/Inscription for an old goblet

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7. NÁPIS NA STARÝ POHÁR.
Ve stříbro zasazený rubin plá trojím věnce do kola, dí: Hleď pijáku, co z mých hlubin do tvého nitra plápolá!
A v zlato vrytý s graciemi se vznáší Apoll na voze, dí: Požitkem buď věren zemi, leč myšlenkou spěj k obloze!
4. INSCRIPTION FOR AN OLD GOBLET.
A ruby 'mid the silver gleaming In three-fold garland twined around, Saith: "Reveller, see, what from me streaming Its glowing path to thee hath found!"
With graces graved in golden splendour Apollo on his car doth rise, Saying: "In joy to earth surrender, But speed in spirit to the skies!"
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A ve podstavci smaragd svítí ve listí révy podobě, dí: Réva tobě věrná v žití chce růsti též tvém na hrobě.
„Dojmy a Rozmary“ (1880).
An emerald, like a vine-leaf weaving Upon the pedestal its glow, Saith: "To thy life the vine is cleaving, And fain upon thy grave would grow!"
“Impressions and Moods” (1880).
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# Modern Czech Poetry/Landscape

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3. KRAJINA.
Na prázdných polích dlouhé řad stromů se kloní s bezlistými haluzemi, vran zástup tmí se nad střechami domů a s jejich křídel šero padá k zemi.
Kraj obzoru se náhle rudě vznítil — plá oranžem, jenž pomalu se ztrácí. Snad zlatý háv to anděla, jenž chytil den v náruč svou a k nebi s ním se vrací.
„Rok na jihu“ (1878).
3. LANDSCAPE.
On the bare fields the trees in straggling rows Earthward their leafless branches have outspread: The roofs are darkened by a flock of crows, Dusk from their wings upon the world is shed.
The sky-line's fringe in sudden redness blazed, — It gleams with orange hues that slowly die: Haply, an angel's golden robe; he raised Day in his arms, and bore it back on high.
“A year in the south” (1878).
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# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Dawson, John

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​DAWSON. (Lieut., 1811. f-p., 12; h-p., 34.)
John Dawson entered the Navy, 25 July, 1801, as A.B., on board the Intrepid 64, Capt. Wm. Hargood, stationed in the East Indies, where he attained the rating of Midshipman, 1 Oct. 1801. On his return home he joined, in April, 1803, the Texel 64, Capt. Hon. Geo. Byng; under whom (if we except a few months, from 28 June to 6 Nov. 1807, when he officiated as Acting-Master of the Sea Flower gun-brig, Lieut.-Commander Wm. Fitzwilliam Owen) he continued to serve, in the Texel 64, Malabar 50, Belliqueux 64, and Warrior 74, until Dec. 1811. During that period he accompanied, in the Belliqueux, the expedition against the Cape of Good Hope in Jan. 1806; contributed, in the same ship, to the capture and destruction, on 27 Nov. following, of a Dutch frigate, seven brigs of war, and about 20 armed and other merchant-vessels, in Batavia Roads; and was officially praised for his brave conduct, as Acting-Lieutenant (order dated 13 Oct. 1809), in the boats of the Belliqueux and Sir Francis Drake, at the destruction of three gun-vessels, under a heavy fire from the batteries at Bantam, in 1810. Mr. Dawson, whose appointment to the Belliqueux was confirmed 27 Aug. 1811, rejoined his patron (after an intermediate servitude in the Castilian 18, Capt. David Braimer) in the Warrior on 22 Aug. 1812. He invalided, however, in Nov. 1813; and has since been on half-pay.
This officer has been perfectly blind for the last five-and-twenty years.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Day, Charles Estcourt

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​DAY. (Retired Commander, 1846. f-p., 15; . h-p., 34.)
Charles Estcourt Day entered the Navy, 1 Nov. 1798, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the St. George 98, Capts. John Holloway and Sampson Edwards, employed in the Channel and off the coast of Spain. In Feb. 1801, having attained the rating of Midshipman two years previously, he removed to the San Josef 110, Capts. Wm. Wolseley and Jas. Carpenter; and, on next joining the Hercule 74, commanded by Capt. Solomon Ferris, and, during the absence of that officer, by Lieut. John B. Hills, he witnessed the capture, between 28 June and 1 July, 1803, of La Mignonne of 16, and La Créole of 32 guns, and partook of a stiff running fight with the 40-gun frigate La Poursuivante, near St. Nicolas Mole, St. Domingo. He afterwards visited the Mediterranean in the Leviathan 74, Capt. Henry Wm. Bayntun, whence he returned to the West Indies in 1805, in pursuit of the Franco-Spanish fleet. On his subsequent arrival home in La Prévoyante store-ship, Master-Commander Daniel M‘Coy, Mr. Day joined the Windsor Castle 98, Capt. Chas. Boyles, under whom, after viewing Sir Sam. Hood’s capture of four French frigates off Rochefort, 25 Sept. 1806, he passed the Dardanells in Feb. 1807, and served on shore in the attack on the island of Prota. Being promoted to a Lieutenancy, 27 Dec. 1808, in -the Norge 74, Capt. John Sprat Rainier, he next served for some time off Lisbon and in the Mediterranean, and, in 1810-11, commanded a gun and mortar boat at the defence of Cadiz. Mr. Day – whose ensuing appointments were, on 19 Feb. 1812, and 16 July, 1813, to the Impétueux, bearing the flag of Vice-Admiral Geo. Martin, and Devonshire 74, Capt. Ross Donnelly – held command, from July, 1812, to April, 1813, of the armed schooner Wellington, tender to the Impétueux. In that vessel he appears to have been employed between Lisbon, Cadiz, and Gibraltar, in conveying despatches and freights of Government money, and on other particular services. Having been on half-pay since the peace, he accepted, 3 Nov. 1846, the rank of Retired Commander.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Dawes, Daniel Butler

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​DAWES. (Lieut., 1841. f-p., 19; h-p., 5.)
Daniel Butler Dawes entered the Navy, 20 Dec. 1823, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Bulwark 74, Capt. Thos. Dundas, on the Home station, where he became. In July, 1825, Midshipman of the Genoa 74, Capt. Walter Bathurst. From 1826 until his return home in 1831, on board the Calcutta 84, Capt. Peter Fisher, he next served with Capts. Jas. Stirling, John FitzGerald Studdert, and Wm. Clarke Jervoise, in the Success 28, on the East India station. Having passed his examination, 6 June, 1832, Mr. Dawes, in Aug. 1833, joined, as Mate, the Excellent gunnery-ship at Portsmouth, Capt. Thos. Hastings, with whom he continued until transferred, in Feb. 1835, to the Caledonia 120, flag-ship of Sir Josias Rowley in the Mediterranean. From Dec. 1837, until May, 1841, he was further employed on board the Volage 26, Capts. Henry Smith and Geo. Elliot; and during that period was at the capture of Aden in 1839, and witnessed the commencement of the hostilities in China. He was afterwards attached, from Oct. 1841, until March, 1842, to the Styx steam surveying-vessel, Capt. Alex. Thos. Emeric Vidal, on the coast of Africa; and was then discharged, having been promoted to the rank he now holds on 23 Nov. 1841. Mr. Dawes’ next appointment was, 14 Nov. 1843, to the Larne 18, Capt. John Wm. Douglas Brisbane, also on the African station, whence he invalided in. Aug. 1844. He resumed his professional duties, 26 June, 1846, in the Columbine 16, commanded, on the East India station, by Capts. Jas. Rich. Booth and Chas. Conrad Grey. Agents – Collier and Snee.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Dawkins, Charles Colyear

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​DAWKINS. (Commander, 1841.)
Charles Colyear Dawkins entered the Navy 23 Aug. 1820; passed his examination in 1829; and, after serving for two months as Acting-Lieutenant of the Isis 50, was confirmed by the Admiralty 14 June, 1830. He was subsequently appointed – 21 Nov. 1831, to the Talbot 28, Capt. Rich. Dickinson, at the Cape of Good Hope – 25 April, 1835, to the Canopus 80, Capt. Hon. Josceline Percy, in the Mediterranean – 12 Feb. 1839, to the Hydra steam-vessel, Capt. Anthony Wm. Milward, lying at Chatham – and, 19 April following, to the Blenheim 72, Capt. Sir Humphrey Fleming Senhouse, fitting for the East Indies. As a reward for his services at the capture of Canton, he was promoted, after having officiated for seven years as a Lieutenant, to the rank of Commander, 8 Oct. 1841. Since that period, however, he has not been employed. Agents – Hallett and Robinson.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Dawson, Gilbert Francis

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​DAWSON. (Lieut., 1824. f-p., 19; h-p., 15.)
Gilbert Francis Dawson, born 14 April, 1800, is youngest son of the late Fras. Dawson, Esq., of Fordham Abbey, near Newmarket; brother of Commander John Francis Dawson, R.N., who was killed, while in command of a division of the British flotilla during the Burmese war, 2 Dec. 1825; and first-cousin, maternally, of Viscount Canterbury.
This officer entered the Navy, 18 March, 1813, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Warspite 74, Capts. Hon. Sir Henry Blackwood and Lord Jas. O’Bryen; and, on eventually proceeding to North America, removed as Midshipman, in 1814, to the Iphigenia 36, Capt. Andrew King. From 1816 to 1820 we next find him in the East Indies on board the Conway 28, Capt. John Reynolds, and Leander 50, flag-ship of Sir H. Blackwood. He then for a brief period joined the Queen Charlotte, bearing the flag at Portsmouth of Sir Jas. Hawkins Whitshed; and, for about three years, was afterwards employed in the West Indies as a passed Midshipman of the Thracian 18, Capt. John Walter Roberts, and Grecian cutter, Lieut.-Commander John Cawley. On 31 March, 1823, in command, we believe, of the boats of the Thracian and Tyne, he captured the Zaragozana, a piratical schooner. He obtained his commission 28 June, 1824; and was subsequently appointed, chiefly in the West Indies – 6 July following, to the Diamond 46, Capt. Lord Napier – next, to the Bustard 10, Capt. Williams Sandon – 11 Feb. 1826, as First-Lieutenant, to the Britomart 10, Capt. Fred. Chamier – 18 Sept. 1828, to the Nimrod 20, Capt. Sam. Radford – and, 9 Oct. 1829, to the Hyacinth 18, Capt. Robt. Milborne Jackson. Since 1832, in which year he invalided home, Lieut. Dawson has not been ofiicially afloat. The subject of this sketch, since he left the Hyacinth, has been in command of various merchantships and steam-boats. From 1840 to 1841 he was employed as a Police Magistrate in New Zealand. He married, first, Marguerite Jane, daughter of John Paddock, Esq., Staff Surgeon in the Army; and secondly, 29 Nov. 1841, Harriott Heywood, daughter of W. H. Styles, Esq., of New House Farm, North Fleet, co. Kent. He has issue four children.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Davison, Kilgour

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​DAVISON. (Lieut., 1811. f-p., 15; h-p., 29.)
Kilgour Davison entered the Navy, 15 April, 1803, as Schoolmaster, on board the Ethalion 38, Capts. Chas. Stuart, Joseph Spear, Wm. Chas. Fahie, and Thos. John Cochrane, under which officers he successively served, latterly as Midshipman and Master’s Mate, until Dec. 1808. He assisted, during that period, at the capture of the Danish West India islands of St. Thomas and Sta. Croix in Dec. 1807, and, pending the last five months of his attachment to the Ethalion, was absent in a prize. On next joining the Neptune 98, flag-ship of Hon. Sir Alex. Cochrane, he served at the taking, in Feb. and April, 1809, of the islands of Martinique and the Saintes, and of the French 74-gun ship D’Haupoult. While in the Neptune, he also, we believe, aided in cutting out a schooner under a heavy fire from the batteries of St. Eustatius. Being appointed, 29 June, 1809, to an Acting-Lieutenancy in the Vimiera brig, Capt. Edw. Scobell, Mr. Davison, in Feb. 1810, further contributed to the reduction of St. Martin, St. Eustatius, and Saba. He removed on 5 July following to the Scorpion 18, Capts. Hon. John Gore and Robt. Giles, and, being confirmed in that vessel 17 July, 1811, continued to serve in her, on the Spanish Main, and off the coast of Africa, until March, 1813. He subsequently held an appointment in the Coast Guard from 14 May, 1831, until 1836; but has since been on half-pay.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Davy, John

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​DAVY. (Commander, 1814. f-p., 11; h-p., 33.)
John Davy, born 5 June, 1789, is only surviving son of the late Rev. Wm. Davy, of Ingoldsthorpe, co. Norfolk, by his first-cousin, Elizabeth, daughter of Edw. Davy, Esq., of Milsham. One of his brothers, Henry, in the Royal Engineers, was killed at Corunna, with Sir John Moore, in Jan. 1809; and another, William, also an officer in the army, was drowned at St. Helena in Dec. 1818.
This officer entered the Navy, 10 June, 1803, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Colossus 74, commanded by the present Sir Geo. Martin, whom he afterwards followed, as Midshipman and Master’s Mate, into the Glory, Barfleur, and Queen 98’s, and into the Canopus 80. While in the Barfleur, he took part in Sir Robt. Calder’s action, 22 July, 1805; and, when in the Canopus in 1807-9, he saw much gun-boat service in the Faro of Messina, and beheld the reduction of the islands of Ischia and Procida. On next removing to the Ville de Paris 110, bearing the flag of Lord Collingwood, he served in the boats under Lieut. John Tailour, on the night of 31 Oct. 1809, at the capture and destruction, after a fearful struggle, and a loss to the British of 15 men killed and 55 wounded, of the French armed store-ship Lamproie, of 16 guns and 116 men, bombards Victoire and Grondeur and armed xebec Normande, with a convoy of seven merchant-vessels, defended by numerous strong batteries in the Bay of Rosas. He was appointed, 5 Nov. following, Acting-Lieutenant of the Cumberland 74, Capt. Hon. Philip Wodehouse, to which ship the Admiralty confirmed him by commission dated 5 Jan. 1810. He returned home from the Mediterranean in April, 1811, on board the Pylades 18, Capt. Geo. Ferguson; subsequently to which he cruized, early in 1812, off the coast of Ireland, in the Hamadryad 36, Capt. Sir Thos. Staines. From 20 May, 1812, until promoted ​to his present rank, 15 July, 1814, he was again employed under his patron, Vice-Admiral Martin, as his Flag-Lieutenant, in the Impetueux, Stately, and Rodney, line-of-battle ships, off Lisbon and Cadiz. Commander Davy has not, since the latter date, been afloat.
He married, in Feb. 1832, Katherine, eldest daughter of the late Rich. Davy, Esq., of Toxford, co. Suffolk, and has issue a son and four daughters. Agent – J. Hinxman.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Dawson, William (b)

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​DAWSON. (Lieutenant, 1827.)
William Dawson (b) entered the Navy 24 July, 1809; passed his examination in 1815; obtained his commission 28 April, 1827; and (with the exception of three years’ command, from Sept. 1835 to Sept. 1838, of the Hornet Revenue cutter) has held an appointment in the Coast Guard Service since 7 Oct. 1829.