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- Else Meidner 1901–1987
- Title
- Poem by Else Meidner titled ‘Longing’
- Date
- c.1970
- Format
- Document - correspondence
- Collection
- Tate Archive
- Acquisition
- Accepted by HM Government in lieu of inheritance tax and allocated to Tate, 2006. Accrual presented by Annabel Hodin, 2020
- Reference
- TGA 20062/7/128/1/10
Description
[Transcription/translation]
Longing – written 1959
Grant me just a year of friendship!
A year for you is too long,
I can tell from your furrowed brow.
A month then, I beg you!
Still less you had in mind?
Let it be just a day!
Not even that?
Then give me an hour to see you again,
That I might kiss your eyes once more.
So much I omitted to do,
Held you but by half,
And knew not the short term you had set,
So come for an hour just one last time!
You vision of beauty,
Holding you in my arms
Was rapture from the world!
You Lucifer, most beautiful of God’s angels,
With whom I wrestled, though you would not bless me,
Grant me a hour to see you again!
Archive context
- Papers of Josef Paul Hodin TGA 20062 (407)
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- Working papers relating to artistic, cultural and historic figures TGA 20062/7 (106)
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- Else Meidner TGA 20062/7/128 (29)
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- Correspondence from Else Meidner to J.P. Hodin TGA 20062/7/128/1 (8)
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- Poem by Else Meidner titled ‘Longing’ TGA 20062/7/128/1/10