Com exclusividade para vocês uma ode a Mrs. Bennet, por minha amiga Rita Watts, do All Things Jane Austen blog e Facebook, que imagino muitos de vocês já a conheçam.

Não me atrevo a traduzir poesia portanto cá está o original, “Ode to Mrs. Bennet”, pois Rita tem como segunda língua o inglês.

Antes que me esqueça, tem também ode a “ele” em duas partes: Ode to Mr. Darcy Part I e Ode to Mr. Darcy Parte II!

Mrs. Bennet por Isabel Bishop

ODE TO MRS. BENNET

Ball, dances
Blooming romances
Songs, quadrilles
Laces. All the frills.

Officers in red coats
Knocking at the door.
Hold steady my heart!
Do not drop to the floor.

Five pretty ladies
I have to marry
A father’s job failed
Let me to tarry.

A handful of husbands is what I need
Unless a rich one we get,
Who spends his income with no regrets!
For my youth is not completely gone

I can still enjoy years to come
But I deserve more than regular food…like
A French chef to impress the neighborhood
For bearing five pretty ladies

Is no easy task.
I say ask around,
I dare you, will you ask?
As long as none of them will vex me

With their frothy thoughts and state-of-flight,
Be it Mary with sermons or Lizzy being feisty
Beware mamas,
I shall succeed with all my might.

If all else should fail,
I still have Jane
For why would she be so beautiful
If nothing of it became?

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