I shall never see the snows of another winter - I do believe that I shall never again feel the vivifying warmth of another summer sun; and it is in this persuasion that I begin to write my tragic history.
The Garden Party is a short imaginary story by the author Katherine Mansfield, published in 1922. Katherine Mansfield is a very well known modernist writer. Rather than focusing on the plot, this novel emphasises the attitudes, feelings and relationships of individuals, and the author paints a picture of the protagonist's inner world as she
Nicholina. Her memories. They slip across the surface of the shadows, as slick and bright as oil in water, mingling with my own. Snippets of a lullaby here. Ginger hair and warm hands there, a clandestine smile and an echo of laughter—genuine laughter, not the eerie, artificial kind she uses now. Warmth envelops that particular memory, and I realize it isn’t her laughter at all. It comes from another, someone she once held dear. A sister? A mother? Pale skin, freckled flesh. Ah . . . a lover.
A Garden of Tears
You've awakened something
Buried deep within my heart;
Under a frozen pillar of tears.
Your soft eyes, your comforting smile
Your warmth of friendship and care
Yüreğim! Unutacağız onu!
Sen ve ben - bu gece!
Sen verdiği sıcaklığı unut
Işığı unutacağım ben de!
Başarınca söyle n'olur
Söyle ki hemen başlayayım!
Çabuk! Yoksa sen oyalanırken
Ben onu hatırlayacağım!
Heart! We will forget him!
You and I - tonight!
You may forget the warmth he gave
I will forget the light!
When you have done, pray tell me
That I may straight begin!
Haste! lest while you're lagging
1 remember him!
Yüreğim! Unutacağız onu!
Sen ve ben - bu gece!
Sen verdiği sıcaklığı unut-
Işığı unutacağım ben de!
Başarınca söyle ne olur
Söyle ki hemen başlayayım!
Çabuk! Yoksa sen oyalanırken
Ben onu hatırlayacağım!