LWÓW Księgarnia H. ALTENBERGA, WARSAW - E. WENDE I SPÓŁKA 1907, pp. 456, form. 14 x 20.5, period cloth hardcover, lightly soiled, ownership signature on title page, a few erasures inside the text.
Anthology of English poetry translated by Jan Kasprowicz. The volume contains poetry by Christopher Marlowe, Thomas Moore, William Blake, Oscar Wilde, and William Shakespeare, among others, including the first Polish translation of Sonnet 123:
Thou shalt not see, Time, a change in me! Building
Of your pyramids, though you erect them with such power
Thou dost erect, it is to me a sight no longer new.
Fresh only the whitewashes glimmer
On the ancient walls.... The way we not long
We have, so we worship freshness in what is old,
And wanting it to be our lust's servant,
That it is not new, who among us would give faith!
But your testimonies with you are nothing
To me, I am not surprised by yours today nor yesterday,
For everything is licentious and deceptive,
What thy hand creates, eager to hurry.
One thing I vow: Forth the variety,
I, against thy scythe, will remain faithful.
