CANCIÓN
by: Alvaro de Luna (1388-1453)
 INCE to
cry
- And to sigh
- I ne'er cease;
- And in vain
- I would gain
- My release;
- Yet I still
- Have the will,
- Though I see
- That the way
- Every day
- Is less free.
- She is light
- And the blight
- Wrecks my joy;
- Better death
- Than such breath
- I employ!
- But perchance
- For such glance
- I was born;
- And my grief
- Is relief
- For your scorn.
--Translated by Thomas Walsh
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"Canción" is reprinted
from Hispanic Anthology: Poems Translated from the Spanish
by English and North American Poets. Ed. Thomas Walsh. New
York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1920. |
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