{"id":213,"date":"2020-09-09T13:01:28","date_gmt":"2020-09-09T13:01:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/oguztansel.bilkent.edu.tr\/en\/?page_id=213"},"modified":"2020-09-09T13:01:28","modified_gmt":"2020-09-09T13:01:28","slug":"bilitis-i","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/oguztansel.bilkent.edu.tr\/en\/index.php\/literary-personality\/selected-poems\/bilitis-i\/","title":{"rendered":"Bilitis I"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>To Pierre Lou\u00ffs<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A<br>Ah, the Taurus mountains! Blossom-shaded woods<br>Fairies, their hair colored in orange.<br>Ripened the queen of all females<br>On the forested meadow where you sang songs<br>Your hair smells of lily, of hyacinth,<br>Where you crushed your breasts, having put on mosses<br>In the forested brook, under starlight<br>The shepherd stole a kiss from your pomegranate lips.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>B<br>Forest fairies with hair blue,<br>To wear rosebuds in their hair<br>Entered the rose hip valley by the moonlit path.<br>She searched for the cast of her breast in the flowing stream,<br>A few branches of gillyflower fell upon her mind<br>The divine goddess of free love<br>Realized her virginity as she watched her reflection in Karasu1<br>Unable to find the shepherd who broke his promise<br>The eternal night cut short by daylight so soon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>C<br>Ah! The fairies, goat kids, the moonlight<br>Nomad girls\u2019 plaintive songs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Oguz Tansel<\/strong><br><em>Translated by Ays\u0131t Tansel<br>1 The river \u201cDark Water\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To Pierre Lou\u00ffs AAh, the Taurus mountains! Blossom-shaded woodsFairies, their hair colored in orange.Ripened the queen of all femalesOn the forested meadow where you sang songsYour hair smells of lily, of hyacinth,Where you crushed your breasts, having put on mossesIn the forested brook, under starlightThe shepherd stole a kiss from [\u2026] <\/p>\n<div class=\"clear\"><\/div>\n<p><a class=\"more_link clearfix\" href=\"https:\/\/oguztansel.bilkent.edu.tr\/en\/index.php\/literary-personality\/selected-poems\/bilitis-i\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":14,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-templates\/template-full-width.php","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/oguztansel.bilkent.edu.tr\/en\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/213"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/oguztansel.bilkent.edu.tr\/en\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/oguztansel.bilkent.edu.tr\/en\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oguztansel.bilkent.edu.tr\/en\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oguztansel.bilkent.edu.tr\/en\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=213"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/oguztansel.bilkent.edu.tr\/en\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/213\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":214,"href":"https:\/\/oguztansel.bilkent.edu.tr\/en\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/213\/revisions\/214"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oguztansel.bilkent.edu.tr\/en\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/14"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/oguztansel.bilkent.edu.tr\/en\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}