FOLEIRICES

 KÓSTAS OURÁNIS (1890-1953)

MULHERES DE PASSAGEM

Mulheres a quem vi por um instante

dentro de trens à hora em que partiam

para outro lugar, mulheres que riam

nos braços de um outro homem, exultantes;

mulheres em balcões, a olhar diante

de si, tão distraídas, o vazio,,

ou a agitar do convés de um navio

que zarpava seus lenços vacilantes:

se soubésseis com quanta nostalgia

eu vos trago de novo ao pensamento

pelas tardes de chuva, tardes frias,

mulheres que passastes um momento

em minha vida - e agora conduzis

minha alma a um exótico país!

POEMA DE KÓSTAS OURÁNIS, POETA GREGO

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 Ouranis (1850 - 1953) was born in Constantinople, the son of Nikolaos Niarchos and Algeliky Giannusi.He received his Elementary and High School educations in Leonidio and Nafplion, Greece and Constantinople, Turkey, respectively; and his college education in Paris, France. In 1920, he was appointed Greek Consul General of Lisbon, Portugal; and in 1924 he settled in Athens, where he subsequently held a number of prominent journalistic and managerial positions in a number of newspapers and magazines there. He died in the Athens area on 12 June 1953

His poetic works published prior to his death include: "Like Dreams" (1909), "Spleen" (1912), and "Nostalgias" (1920). He is known as the last Greek romanticist of the modern times.