MIHAI EMINESCU - TRIBUTE

O,  REMAIN O remain, dear one, I love you, Stay with me in my fair land, For your dreamings and your longings Only I can understand. You, who like a prince reclining Over the pool with heaven starred; You who gaze up from the water With such earnest deep regard. Stay, for where the lapping wavelets Shake the tall and tasseled grass, I will make you hear in secret How the furtive chamois pass. Oh, I see you wrapped in magic, Hear your murmur low and sweet, As you breqk the shallow water With your slender naked feet; See you thus amidst the ripples Which the moon's pale beams engage, And your years seem but an instant, And each instant seems an age." Thus spake the woods in soft entreaty; Arching boughs above me bent, But I whistled high, and laughing Out into the open went. Now though even I roamed that country How could I its charm recall ... Where has boyhood gone, I wonder, With its pool and woods and all ? Translated by Corneliu M. Popescu

Mihai Eminescu 15 January 1850 – 15 June 1889 was a Romantic poet, novelist and journalist, often regarded as the most famous and influential Romanian  poet.

Eminescu was an active member of the Junimea literary society and he worked as an editor for the newspaper Timpul ("The Time"), the official newspaper of the Conservative Party.

His poetry was first published when he was 16 and he went to Vienna to study when he was 19.

The poet's Manuscripts, containing 46 volumes and approximately 14,000 pages, were offered by Titu Maiorescu as a gift to the Romanian Academy during the meeting that was held on 25 January 1902.

Notable works include Luceafărul (The Vesper/The Evening Star/The Lucifer/The Daystar), Odă în metru antic (Ode in Ancient Meter), and the five Letters (Epistles/Satires).

In his poems he frequently used metaphysical, mythological and historical subjects.