What can I do to keep you? The original text of Borges is as follows:
What can I do to keep you?
I give you the thin streets, the despairing sunset, and the moon in the wilderness. I give you the sorrow of a person who has been looking at the lonely moon for a long time. I give you the souls of my dead ancestors, the ancestors who are memorialized in marble by future generations: my father's father was killed on the border of Buenos Aires, with two bullets piercing his chest, and he died with a Bearded, the body was wrapped in cowhide by the soldiers.
My mother’s grandfather was only twenty-four years old at the time. He led 300 men in a charge in Peru. Now they are all ghosts on horseback who have disappeared. I give you all the insight my books can contain, and all the manliness and humor I can have in my life. I give you the loyalty of a man who has never had faith.
I give you the core of myself that I have managed to preserve, a core that is untouched by words, untraded by dreams, untouched by time, joy, and adversity. I give you the memory of a yellow rose I saw one evening many years before you were born. I give you an interpretation of your life, a theory of yourself, your true and amazing existence.
I give you my loneliness, my darkness, the hunger of my heart; I try to impress you with confusion, danger, and failure.
Borges:
Jorge Luis Borges is an outstanding Argentinian poet, novelist, essayist and translator. He is known as the archeology among writers. scientist. The poem "What can I do to keep you" is one of Borges's most famous poems. Whether it is the English version or the Chinese version, it is very amazing to read, and the words and sentences are deeply emotional and touching.
In this poem, there is a heart that is passionate about love and has a desperate persistence. Such a heart is both shocking and scary. This poem was written in 1934 and included in the collection of poems "Another, the Same". It is an excerpt from "To Beatrice Biveroni Webster de Burridge", so it is a love poem.