The Penguin Book of Spanish Verse by John Michael Cohen

Author:John Michael Cohen [Cohen, John Michael]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Literary Criticism, Poetry, European, Spanish & Portuguese, Anthologies (Multiple Authors), Caribbean & Latin American, General
ISBN: 9780140585704
Google: qeSZAAAAIAAJ
Publisher: Penguin
Published: 1988-07-15T10:42:54+00:00

Let the ilex resist the wind rather with its peasant foot: for with its courtier-like leaves it believes in every breeze.

That lovely vine that you see clinging to the elm discreetly divides its leaves with the neighbouring laurel.

The moaning turtle-dove, laying its chaste scorn aside, made the boughs of that cypress a second marriage-bed.

The pink does not keep its leaves for one bee alone; others drink the pearly dew that edges its rosiness.

The crystal of that stream, faithful as the wave, refuses the absent one his image until it sees him again.

Inconstancy, in the end, gives feathers to Venus’s son, with which he covers his wings and flights his arrows as well.

So do not let interest triumph over your free will, nor love either, of a kind more single-minded than fickle.

Shake off the yoke of riches; let woollen fillets, not gold chains tie back your loose hair.

Bad luck to you if you look constantly at the sun, and may anyone so like an eagle in this be twice and three times unlucky.

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