Mihai Eminescu's best-known lines
The top 3 according to 41 votes from people: Living in your narrow circle, / fortune keeps you company, / but in my own world I feel / immortal and cold. · Time goes by and time comes on, / all is old and all is new. · Everything in the world has passed away; only evil has remained.. (Updated Apr 8, 2022.)
From "Once upon a time, as in the tales" in "The Evening Star" to "One Wish Alone Have I", "Evening on the Hill" and "Gloss": the lines by Mihai Eminescu every Romanian knows by heart, each with the poem's title and year.
Automatically translated (original in Română). See the original
Top 16
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1
Living in your narrow circle, / fortune keeps you company, / but in my own world I feel / immortal and cold.
Poem "The Evening Star" (1883).
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2
Time goes by and time comes on, / all is old and all is new.
Poem "Gloss" (1883).
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3
Everything in the world has passed away; only evil has remained.
Poem "Memento mori" (posthumous).
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4
Once upon a time, as in the tales, / as there never was, / of great imperial kin, / there was a most beautiful maiden.
Poem "The Evening Star" (1883).
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5
One wish alone have I: / in the calm of evening / let me die / at the edge of the sea.
Poem "One Wish Alone Have I" (1883).
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6
The blue lake of the forests / is laden with yellow water lilies.
Poem "The Lake" (1876).
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7
And if branches tap at the window / and the poplars tremble, / it is to keep you in my mind / and let you slowly come near.
Poem "And If…" (1883).
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8
Forest, little forest, / how are you, my dear?
Poem "Seeing Again" (1879).
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9
Come into the forest, to the spring / that trembles on the pebbles.
Poem "Desire" (1876).
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10
By the odd-numbered poplars / I often passed.
Poem "By the Poplars Without Pair…" (1883).
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11
And yet the world is sad!
Poem "Blue Flower" (1873).
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12
Perhaps it went out long ago / in the blue distances, / and only now its ray / shines into our sight.
Poem "To the Star" (1886).
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13
From the Dniester to the Tisza / every Romanian has complained to me.
Poem "Doina" (1883).
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14
What do I wish you, sweet Romania, / my land of glories, my land of longing?
Poem "What Do I Wish You, Sweet Romania" (1867).
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15
Come down, gentle evening star, / gliding on a ray.
Poem "The Evening Star" (1883).
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16
At evening on the hill the alphorn sounds mournfully, / the flocks climb up, stars sparkle on their way.
Poem "Evening on the Hill" (1885).
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Comments (1)
Am învățat Luceafărul pe de rost în clasa a opta și încă îl știu. Lipsește doar Epigonii, dar oricum lista e foarte bună.