richard aldington

• ingiliz şair, romancı, eleştirmen ve yaşamöyküsü yazarı. çağdaş sanayi uygarlığının ikiyüzlülüğü üstüne öfke dolu yapıtlarıyla tanınır. (1892-1962)
• “yurtseverlik güçlü ve ortak bir sorumluluk duygusudur. milliyetçilik ise çöplükte öten horozun şişinmesidir.” demiş yazar.
• like a gondola of green scented fruits
  drifting along the dank canals of venice,
  you, o exquisite one,
  have entered into my desolate city.
  
  the blue smoke leaps
  like swirling clouds of birds vanishing.
  so my love leaps forth toward you,
  vanishes and is renewed.
  
  a rose-yellow moon in a pale sky
  when the sunset is faint vermilion
  in the mist among the tree-boughs
  art thou to me, my beloved.
  
  a young beech tree on the edge of the forest
  stands still in the evening,
  yet shudders through all its leaves in the light air
  and seems to fear the stars-
  so are you still and so tremble.
  
  the red deer are high on the mountain,
  they are beyond the last pine trees.
  and my desires have run with them.
  
  the flower which the wind has shaken
  is soon filled again with rain;
  so does my heart fill slowly with tears,
  o foam-driver, wind-of-the-vineyards,
  until you return.
  
  (bkz: images old and new)