Jaroslav Seifert



Jaroslav Seifert (23 September 1901 – 10 January 1986) was a Czech writer, poet and journalist. He won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1984.

An Apple from your Lap (1933)

 * A lad changed to a shrub in spring, the shrub into a shepherd boy, A fine hair to a lyre string, snow into snow on hair piled high.
 * Transformations translated by Edward Osers