Fernando Pessoa
VI - Some were as loved loved, some as prizes prized.
VI
Some were as loved loved, some as prizes prized.
A natural wife to the fed man my mate,
I was sufficient to whom I sufficed.
I moved, slept, bore and aged without a fate.
1920
«Inscriptions». in Poemas Ingleses. Fernando Pessoa. (Edição bilingue, com prefácio, traduções, variantes e notas de Jorge de Sena e traduções também de Adolfo Casais Monteiro e José Blanc de Portugal.) Lisboa: Ática, 1974.
- 118.1ª ed. in English Poems I-II. Fernando Pessoa. Lisbon: Olisipo, 1921.