Beside The River Sar: Selected Poems from En las orillas del Sar

Rosalía de Castro

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Beside The River Sar

Selected Poems from En las orillas del Sar

Rosalía de Castro
Translated by: S. Griswold Morley

Language: English

Published/Copyright: 1937

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	I
CONTENTS Publicly Available Download PDF	V
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS Publicly Available Download PDF	VIII
PREFACE Publicly Available Download PDF	IX
THE VERSES
Aunque no alcancen gloria / As I composed this little book, I thought Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	2
Orillas del Sar / Beside the River Sar Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	4
Los unos altísimos / Towering up Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	16
Era apacible el día / Mild was the air Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	18
Una luciérnaga entre el musgo brilla / A glowworm scatters flashes through the moss Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	20
Adivínase el dulce y perfumado / The feet of Spring are on the stair Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	24
Candente está la atmósfera / Candescent lies the air Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	26
Un manso río, una vereda estrecha / A gently flowing stream, a narrow path Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	28
Detente un punto, pensamiento inquieto / Stop for an instant, resdess thought! Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	28
Moría el sol, y las marchitas hojas / The sun was dying, and the withered leaves Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	30
Del rumor cadencioso de la onda / Out of the measured murmur blent Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	30
Sedientas las arenas en la playa / Thirsting, upon the beach the sand receives Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	32
Los Tristes / The Oppressed Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	34
Alma que vas huyendo de ti misma / Soul that hurriest to escape thyself Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	42
Cuando recuerdo del ancho bosque / When I recall the spacious forest Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	42
Del antiguo camino a lo largo / Along the highway's ancient line Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	42
Ya duermen en su tumba las pasiones / My passions in their tomb are soundly sleeping Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	44
Creyó que era eterno tu reino en el alma / He thought thy kingdom was eternal in the soul Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	44
Ya siente que te extingues en su seno / He feels already that the vital flame Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	46
No subas tan alto, pensamiento loco / Soar not so high, mad thought! Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	46
En su cárcel de espinos y rosas / In their prison of hawthorns and roses Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	48
Ya no mana la fuente, se agotó el manantial / Now the brook is dry, the spring has ceased to flow Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	50
Cenicientas las aguas, los desnudos / Ashen are the waters, ashen the hills Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	50
Era la última noche / It was the final night Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	54
¡Volved! / Return ! Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	58
Camino blanco, viejo camino / White road, old road, stony, rough, and narrow Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	62
Aun parece que asoman tras del Miranda altivo / I think behind Miranda's peak May's dawns are still appearing Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	62
Cerrado capullo de pálidas tintas / Primly shut rosebud pallidly tinted Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	64
En sus ojos rasgados y azules / In her eyes so blue and wide Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	64
Fué cielo de su espíritu, fué sueño de sus sueños / Heaven to his spirit was she, and dream of his dreams Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	66
Te amo... ¿por qué me odias? / "I love you. Why do you hate me?" Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	66
Nada me importa, blanca o negra mariposa / I do not care, little moths, if you be black or white Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	68
Muda la luna y como siempre pálida / Silent the moon and, as her wont is, pale Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	68
Nos dicen que se adoran la aurora y el crepúsculo / Say not that dawn and eventide are lovers! Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	68
Una sombra tristísima, indefinible y vaga / Always before me a somber shadow moves, shapeless Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	70
¡Aturde la confusa gritería / What a confused and stupefying shout Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	72
De la vida entre el múltiple conjunto de los seres / Seek not the image of eternal Beauty Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	72
Quisiera, hermosa mía / "I wish, dear heart, sweet mistress of my will Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	74
A la sombra te sientas de las desnudas rocas / "You sit sometimes, my dear, in a bare boulder's shade" Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	86
En los ecos del órgano, o en el rumor del viento / In organ-echoes or in planet's gleaming Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	88
Santa Escolástica / Saint Scholastica Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	90
Dicen que no hablan las plantas, ni las fuentes, ni los pájaros / They say that a plant has no speech, nor a brook, nor a bird Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	102
Cada vez que recuerda tanto oprobio / Each time that he remembers his disgrace Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	102
Recuerda el trinar del ave / The sweet wild notes of a singing bird Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	104
Mientras el hielo las cubre / While winter over my garden Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	106
Pensaban que estaba ocioso / They thought that he was idle Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	106
Brillaban en la altura cual moribundas chispas / The pallid stars, like dying sparks, were faint Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	106
Son los corazones de algunas criaturas / Beings there are whose well-worn hearts are like Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	108
Al oír las canciones / Whenever I hear the songs Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	108
Vosotros que del cielo que forjasteis / O ye who live enamored of the heaven Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	110
A la Luna / To the Moon Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	112
La palabra y la idea... hay un abismo / Word and ideal What an abyss there is Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	118
Las Campanas / The Bells Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	120
Ansia que ardiente crece / Passion new-burning Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	122
A las rubias envidias / Just because you are dark, Marie Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	122
De este mundo en la comedia / Wrapped in the selfsame veil, there go Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	122
Triste loco de atar, el que ama menos / He of less love calls him of greater love Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	124
Justicia de los hombres, yo te busco / Justice I cannot ever find in men Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	124
Sintiéndose acabar con el estío / The ailing woman felt her forces ebb Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	126
Una cuerda tirante guarda mi seno / My bosom holds a single tight-drawn string Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	126
Desde los cuatro puntos cardinales / Despite her wrinkles our Mother Earth is young Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	128
Aun otra amarga gota en el mar sin orillas / One more sour drop goes to the shoreless sea Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	130
En incesante encarnizada lucha / In fierce, incessant struggle Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	130
Glorias hay que deslumhran, cual deslumhra / Glories there are which dazzle like a flash Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	132
¡Oh gloria! deidad vana cual todas las deidades / O Fame! vain deity, as all deities are vain Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	132
Tiemblan las hojas, y mi alma tiembla / Tremble the dying leaves, and my soul trembles! Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	134
No va solo el que llora / My tears, I hope, will never cease to flow Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	136
«¡La copa es de oro fino / The cup is of fine gold Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	136
Yo no he nacido para odiar, sin duda / I know I was not born to hate Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	136
Más rápidos que el rayo / Swifter than lightning Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	138
Hora tras hora, día tras día / Hour follows hour, day follows day Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	138
Tan sólo dudas y terrores siento / Nothing but doubt and terror are my fate Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	140
NOTES TO THE PREFACE Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	143
NOTES TO THE POEMS Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	149
BIBLIOGRAPHY Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	151

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June 10, 2021

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9780520345119

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Translated from the Castilian, with annotations and a preface, by S. Griswold Morley., Reprint 2020

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180

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1 frontisp.

https://doi.org/10.1525/9780520345119

eBook ISBN: 9780520345119

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literary collections; literature; poem; poems; poetry; poets; Spanish literature

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