(5 June 1898 – 19 August 1936 / Fuente Vaqueros)

poet Federico García Lorca
#90 on top 500 poets

Poems of Federico García Lorca

1. Adam 3/29/2010
2. Adivinanza De La Guitarra 1/1/2004
3. Arbolé, Arbolé 1/1/2004
4. Balada Amarilla IV 1/1/2004
5. Ballad of the Moon 1/3/2003
6. Before the Dawn 1/3/2003
7. Cantos Nuevos 3/29/2010
8. City That Does Not Sleep 1/3/2003
9. Dawn 3/29/2010
10. Debussy [with English translation] 3/30/2010
11. Declaring 3/29/2010
12. Ditty of First Desire 1/3/2003
13. El Balcón 1/3/2003
14. Gacela of the Dark Death 1/3/2003
15. Gacela of the Dead Child 1/3/2003
16. Gacela of Unforseen Love 1/3/2003
17. La Casada Infiel 1/1/2004
18. Lament for Ignacio Sánchez Mejías 1/3/2003
19. Landscape of a Vomiting Multitude 1/3/2003
20. Las Seis Cuerdas 1/1/2004

Gacela of the Dark Death

I want to sleep the dream of the apples,
to withdraw from the tumult of cemetries.
I want to sleep the dream of that child
who wanted to cut his heart on the high seas.

I don't want to hear again that the dead do not lose their blood,
that the putrid mouth goes on asking for water.
I don't want to learn of the tortures of the grass,
nor of the moon with a serpent's mouth

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