Federico García Lorca Poems

translated by Will Kirkland

The moon came into the forge
in her bustle of flowering nard.
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But like love
the archers
are blind
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In the sky there is nobody asleep. Nobody, nobody.
Nobody is asleep.
The creatures of the moon sniff and prowl about their cabins.
The living iguanas will come and bite the men who do not dream,
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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.
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In the green morning
I wanted to be a heart.
A heart.
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In Vienna there are ten little girls,
a shoulder for death to cry on,
and a forest of dried pigeons.
There is a fragment of tomorrow
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1. Cogida and death

At five in the afternoon.
It was exactly five in the afternoon.
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Tree, tree
dry and green.
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La guitarra,
hace llorar a los sueños.
El sollozo de las almas
perdidas,
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Weeping,
I go down the street
Grotesque, without solution
With the sadness of Cyrano
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