Selected Verse by Federico García Lorca

Selected Verse by Federico García Lorca

Author:Federico García Lorca
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux


Death

TO ISIDORO DE BLAS

How hard they try!

How hard the horse tries

to become a dog.

How hard the dog tries to become a swallow.

How hard the swallow tries to become a bee.

How hard the bee tries to become a horse.

And the horse,

what a sharp arrow it squeezes from the rose,

what a pale rose rising from its lips!

10 And the rose,

what a flock of lights and cries

knotted in the living sugar of its trunk.

And the sugar,

what daggers it dreams in its vigils!

And these miniature daggers,

what a moon without stables, what nakedness,

undying and rosy flesh they seek out!

And I, on the roof’s edge,

what a burning angel I look for and am.

20 But the plaster arch,

how vast, how invisible, how minute,

without even trying!



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